Prompt action by the French Police resulted in the death of an armed robber last night, a few minutes after he had looted a rice shop at the intersection of Rue Tenant de la Tour and Route Remi.
The robbery took place at 7.30 o'clock, when three men entered the shop and demanded money at the point of a pistol. They obtained about $15 and were about to flee when one of the shop apprentices raised an alarm. This attracted the attention of several French police constables, foreign and Chinese, who started to chase the gang.
The robbers fled in different directions, but one of them was ultimately brought to a halt by police bullets. He fell to the ground, mortally wounded, at the corner of Avenue Petain and Route Francis Garnier. Several shots had penetrated his body and he was pronounced dead a few minutes afterward. A revolver was in his grasp and he had emptied all its chambers at his pursuers.
The other two robbers escaped. A wounded man, found in Rue Stanislas Chevalier, was questioned by the police later.
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