Mrs. E. Krogseth, Norwegian, the wife of Capt. Krogseth of the Customs Marine Department, was shot in the right arm by a robber in Columbia Road shortly before noon yesterday. She was not seriously wounded as the bullet only penetrated the flesh. It nag ESS ate ihe object of an armed the first ign woman
attack in the western ares the "badlands" became notorious crime and lawlessness.
Mrs. Krogseth, who resides at 410 Great Western Road, was waiting at bus stop at the corner of Great Western and Columbia Roads at 1145 o'clock when she was approached by two Chinese one of whom attempted to snatch the brief-case she was carrying under one arm. She resisted lorously and one of the men produced a pistol and fired àt her. one shot was fired and the bullet tore through Mrs. Krogseth's right arm.
Then the two men to their heels, and they managed to escape. The foreign lady, as soon as the Settlement Police arrived on the scene, was sent to the Country Hospital. The stolen brief-case, it is reported, contained no money, only papers.
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