At about 4 o'clock, after officers of the Settlement police had come: hand being in his pocket! Whether to ascertain that the slayings aid not or not the men were armed, could occur on. Settlement territory, a hot be ascertained as investigating number of Japanese military police "Ta Tao" policemen permitted no-Joflicers in_plain-clothes arrived on Jone to look at what they had found fon the bodies.
From eye-witness accounts of the!
appears. that the trio was from North to South on the 16 narrow" street when from the posite direction came seven or eight the scene and carefully inspected the corpses of the two slain Koreans.
The identity of the assassinated men, could not be ascertained ap to. alate hour last night, but it believed that they were three of the hundreds of drug-peddlers who Robber Killed in Gun Battle Shanghai, Feb. 15, Atter' having successfully stoped a robbery, in the home of a blind fortune teller at No. 47, Rue Rronier de Montmorand, the armed member of a trio of robbers, engaged a nue ber of Settlement OPES in a running gun duel in which he lost. his life, shortly after 8.15 am, yester~ day The three thugs, had entered the house of the fortuneteller and after intimidating the Inmates, managed to get $40 in banknotes and a gold ring As they were still In the houso,-how-fever, a coolie, employed by the for. tune teller, managed: to eyeape through a rear door, and raised the alarm, Meanwhile, the bandits ferced the inmates to go to the first floor where they were locked Into a little Foam.
As a result of the coolie's cries for help, two French CP.Cs dashed to the house and found that the three men hod already decamped. They chased the trio and were able to arrest one of them Ina litle village off Avenue Joffre, whilst the sole possessor of a weapon amongst the thugs ran through Tamsui end Avenue Edward VII into Chung-King Road, with C.P.C, 1856
Liis heels Police Give Chase The police constable blew his whistle ox a result of which four of his comrades took up the chase, and when the bandit, ina ug eight shots in all against which came frum the to Japanese occupied of territories Greater Shanghai, taking ama!t eon-signments of opium, heroin and other hnarcoties, to their various customers. Tt is also possible that the men were employees of one of the many gam bling dens in that district although this theory was not believed to have any foundation.
'This is by far the most daring attack' of all those fo have been per petrated in the Western area in' the fast few weeks as the men attacked their victims in broad daylight in a densely populated part of the dis twier and evidently" sure of them. selves, as they calmly took their Chinese victim to his place of ecution. without even bothering. about covering their action with weapons,
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