The Archive · 1938

Double Murder Off Brenan Road

Shanghai, Oct. 10, tol shots shattered the evening Jquiet of Lou Sih Zah Village, off [Brenan Road, yesterday about' 8.40 pan, when gang-revenge took two lives in a. supposed underworld feud. The few details which were available yesterday evening into that one Unidentified Chinese was shot dead and another wounded by. unknown assailants, The attackers were evidently determined to do away with the victims as they pursued the wounded man to an iron workshop 126 Lou Sih Zah and overtaking him there murdered him In cold lbiood by a point blank shot.

The alarmed neighbourhood sent a telephone call to the Bubbling Well police station who answered the emergency call although the drama took place out of the Settlement limits. Soon after their arrival, a party of the Ta Tuo police and fonesa military arrived on the scene fand took over the case. Revenge is supposed to be the motive of the brutal double killing, but us hardly any details were available and the identity of the victims and the the crime may be a gang feud or a political slaying.

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