Considerable excitement reigned in Lane 221, off Changping Road, yesterday morning when a Chinese watchman engaged two armed robbers in a gun fight, resulting in one of the gunmen being wounded and a pedestrian struck by a stray bullet in the foot.
Police reinforcements from Gordon Road Station, headed by Sub-Inspr. T. Coyne, and a Chinese police constable off duty assisted in the capture of the two men and the recovery of the property. Two pistols together with about twenty rounds of ammunition were seized The two robbers entered a Chin house, No. 9. in the alleyway at pow 915 a.m. Having intimidated the occupants in the house. they relieved a Chinese woman of a gold ring and a bangle.
Alarm Raised A young girl who was on the top floor, raised an alarm, bringing the alleyway watchman to the scene. Meeting the watchman at the back door, the decamping robbers opened fire, which was returned. In the gun battle, one of the robbers was wounded in both legs, while a pedestrian was also hit in the foot.
Escaping through a barber shop, the wounded gunman attracted the attention of a policeman who was having a hair-cut. The latter chased after the man and disarmed him.
Meanwhile the police party from Gordon Road Station also made a careful search for the other robber in the vicinity. The latter, who had entered a silk weaving factory through the back door from the alleyway, was found hiding there he police arrived. A loaded Theodore Roos: Fhilippine Islané her son Quentin w Shanghai yesterday in in the upper picture back to Shanghai Mr.
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