Although it is not believed that anyone in the station was struck by iny of the bullets, the building was: onsiderably damaged by the powerfal shots. The bullets went through he cloof, pitted the outside wall and struck a desk standing in the office on the ground floor. It was consi-lered almost miraculous that no-one was wounded.
Reports of the shooting were immediately despatched by telephone th Bubbling Well Police Station. A party of Settlement policemen, under Detective Insp. R. F. Tabrum, went to the scene in motor-cars and started to investigate. What information they gathered they obtained irom sources other than the Special Cuy Government Police who kept their own counsel about the affair.
The latter actually appeared to resent the presence of the Settlement officers on the scene. It is further stated that the Settlement detectives were unable to gain possession of any of the cartridge cases left behind by the attackers.
Besides the Bubbling Well Station personnel, the Reserve Unit, led by Supt. J. Lovell, went to the place of the shooting but did not go into acion owing to the restrictions existing.
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