The Archive · 1939

Collapsed While Escaping

After having been shot, Koo revealed, the chap escaped across vacant land behind the Ts Yue-pang Village, where he collapsed, being subsequently assisted by three members of the gang, to Lane 1221 off Vu Yuen Road. Afterwards he was taken to the Fah Hwa village where police parties were later to arrest As a result of the police raid, the gangsters thought that the doctor, whom they had forced to come to their lair, may have told of their whereabouts to detectives and one of the first things they did after escaping from the "Ta Tao" police, was to send the physician a threatening letter which they signed py drawing a large pistol at the bottom, informiig. the. doctor,- that they would "repay" him:

Meanwhile, it was learned, two-of the four men who had escaped-and-

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