Meanwhile. a third Police party had climbed up on to the roof of the house, and it remained for Sergeant Goldsmith to shoot the fourth robber as he leaped out on to the verandah in the front of the house in an attempt to reach safety through the main entrance.
The master of the house was wounded before the police had been summoned, and the pedestrian casuàl-ties during the shooting included one Chinese boy shot dead, two women and one man wounded. The French Police later reported that a man had been found suffering from a gunshot wound at the corner of Route Bluntschli and Rue Lafayette, a distance of no less than 1,000 yards away from the scene of the robbery. It was concluded that the man must have been injured by shots from one of the armed robbers.
A touch of humour in the otherwise grim story is that a shopkeeper on the opposite side of the street has placed a claim with the French Police for $80 for damage be- caused by police bullets.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.