Coolie and Guard Killed: Third Man Wounded Flight in Stolen Car a manner suggesting the latest gangster film a band of armed Chinese walked into the loading yard of the "Post OMlee, "North Szechuen Road, in, broad daylight on Monday, mowed down three employees with fire from automatics, and seized bags containing $91,000 in bank-notes and coins. They escaped in a stolen hire [car driven by one of their conted fates, which was walting with motor running in Tiendong Road outside the back entrance to the yard, One of the three employees, a coolie, died instantly. He had been wounded four times. Another died in St.
Luke's Hospital during the afternoon Jand the third remains there in critical condition with two bullet wounds in his body.
The dead coolie, Yuan Ping-hsu, had been in the employ of the Post Office for several years. The two Jother victims are Lu Sui-ling ana Chou Yoh-san, postal guards.
Ttwas the frst time in its history that the central Post Ofice had been looted by armed robbers and the speed and precision with which the crime was carried" out suggested that the rohbers were thoroughly familiar with the procedure followed in transferring money to the bank. The loot, representing collections from some of the 32 postal sub-offices in Shang hal, was largely in $5 and $10 notes and no record of the numbers was kept.
Money Being Transferred It_was shortly after 930 am. when "the money was being taken from the Post Office treasury in the ullding tute the loading yard to be placed ina safe contained in -the armour-blited van used for collections and transfers to the Postal through the rear exit, They scrambled into a walling hire-car and drove off at high speed before the chase could be taken up by the police, The car turned north Into North Szechuen Road.
Driver Tied swith Rope The hire-car, whose number was. noted by bystanders, had been engaged by one of the bandits in the International Settlement early yester day morning. The chauffeur at that ime was ordered to drive towards Kiangwan, but as the car was nearing that place the rest of the gang appeared and, together with the man who had engaged the car, seized the Jdciver, bound him with rope and lett him Helpless in a deserted spot off the road, They then drove the car Jreack to Shanghai and Kept it, with a man at the wheel, in Tiendog Road while the robbery was being committed. "Ater the crime they again Grove the car in the direct Kiatigwan and abandoned it on the road near the place where they hed eft the chauffeur. Both the driver fand the car were discovered in the afternoon and the driver was questioned by the police as to the deseriptions and conversation of the bandits.
He was held to have had no complicity in the affair, into which he had Been innocently drawn, Immediately after the shooting a telephone call was sent for a Fire Brigade ambulance and the three victims were conveyed 10 St, Luke's Hospital in Seward Road. There the lcoolte was pronounced dead on arrival jond there also one of the wounded guards died during the afternoon. The third man, suffering from two bullet wounds in vital parts of the body, was hovering near death that night, Savings Bank. The yard was full of, people, including Chinese police with rifles, and it is believed that the bandits had been there for some time, mixing with the crowd, before elt opportunity came. The money vas being carried by a coolie, accompanied by two postal guards armed. with pistols What followed transpired ssu quickly that the witnesses of the affair had scarcely time to catch their breath. Suddenly five men drew large automatic pistols and opened "fire on the coolie and his escort. The coolie slumped to the [ground with an agonized ery and released his grip on the money bags. He was dead, with two bullets in the back and two in the abdomen. The two guards likewise were shot, each being wounded twice, but one of them managed to fire three shots at the robbers from his pistol. Tt is not believed, however, that any of the shots took effect. The members
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