Presumably with the intention of hiding in the throng of shoppers whom he believed to be in the Sun Sun Department Store at that time of the day, the criminal ran into the store but he had hardly proceeded more than ten yards when a final salvo from police guns caused him to collapse, death being instantaneous. Meanwhile, Sikh police constable 706, who also participated in the pursuit, noticed blood on his left leg, and on closer inspection found that he had been slightly injured. When taken to the hospital, attendants there found that no less than three shots had perforated the constable's tunic in three places, without, however, injuring him.
When the smoke had cleared somewhat, three pedestrians were found to have been injured by bullets, all of which, as was later ascertained, having been fired by the gunman. Ambulances arrived on the scene within a few minutes and conveyed the injured to the Paulun Hospital, while the body of the criminal on whom no papers of identification were found, was taken to the public mortuary on Kiaochow Road.
Within two minutes after the ambulances had left the scene, the heavy flow of trafic resumed its normal course. -Exquiries made at the hospital last night revealed that none of the injured Persons was in a serious condition.
Yesterday's affair is believed to be the first in the annals of the Shanghai Municipal Police in which a bag-snatcher carried a pistol.
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