Shanghai, Oct. 23, OURING streams of bullets from Mauser automatic pistols as they blocked the doorway leading to a large dining room in a Chinese restaurant yesterday afternoon, three gunmen brought to a bloody conclusion a joyous wedding feast with a toll of three dead, including a young Chinese boy, and six wounded, including the bride and bridegroom.
Jealousy was believed to have been the motive behind the gruesome affair and the gunmen, it is believed, were hired by a former lover of the bride to kill her and her husband, Scene of the shooting was "The Medium," 647 Wei Hai Wet Road, a large Chinese restaurant, which eaters for wedding parties and other large gatherings. According to eye-wite hhesses of the shooting—employces of the restaurant and others—the three men suddenly burst open the door as the feast was in progress shortly before 5 pam, and blazed away into all corners of the room.
In an instant pandemonium broke loose as the large assembly of guests hurriedly dived behind tables, large chairs or anything else that offered protection from the hail of lead. SUN firing into the room so as to deter pursuit the gunmen then dashed downstairs and into the street where they ran for about fifty yards and then calmly strolled down an alleyway where they were lost from Sight,
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