The murder seems to have been carefully planned and showed considerable forethought, both in the choice of time and place and the method of tracking down the victim. Chinese, dressed in foreign clothes and speaking the northern dialect, went to the box-office and asked that flash message be put on the screen asking Mr. Cheng to come out to the Tounge where a friend was waiting speak to him. Mr, Cheng who was sitting in the balcony with his wite and children watching the film "Gunga Din," yot up todo so, when his. wife suggested that he wait to the end of the picture, 'The man finding that this method of luring his victim into the lounge, where a get away would have been easier, had rot been successful, Louxht a balcony ticket and took a' seat. immediately behind his intended. viet.
Whether deliberately or by chance the occasion selected was a very suite able one, for towards the end of the Him, when the British soldi the thugs there is a lot of shooting and noise, Choosing this moment the man drew a large 8 Mauser from his pocket and fired four shots point-blank from behind into the unfortunate Mr. Cheng. sitting ately in front of him. One shot hit him in the wrist; another went through both cheeks and hit a young, Chinese in the hank Who was stu the row in front; a third shot hit firn Ty the hea ate "Cheng rose and coll AL first, owing to the di the noise fhiken pee Bat of the row ppeniedd and tried to bole the assassin, as he pushed past, bat received a shot in the ably as hie was rushing downstairs the xin met another foreigner, Aly. Charles Hauser, Swiss engineer Tramway Ca, Whether the wuter tunate man tried to stop. him or whether the murderer: was simply shooting his way out, the former was wine killed pistol being found lying next to his body.
The murderer eseuped into busy street, for the Cheng had been for of the T of the Federal Reserve Bank during the previous. y fon March 24 tad been apna} of the "Provisio "fo the post of Superint Customs in Tientsin, In actual fact, however, he had not taken up the post and been neither to the Customs ofthe nor hal hie met any of his colleagues. Only tone week previously he hae visit 10 Ped ings risk that he was running by accepting the appointment.
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