Mr, C. E. Metzler Murdered Outside Residence Coal Merchant Kidnapped, Banker Escapes Shanghai, Aug. 3.
CRIME wave unprecedented in local ime annals and remind iscent of Chicago's rule by gangsters swept through Shanghai yesterday with the police of the Settlement and French Concession working feverishly under torrid weather while Law-breakers were! on the rampage.
The list of major crimes yesterday included the murder of Mr. Charles Edward Metzler, prominent member of the local Russian community, Chairman of the Russian rants Associa~ tion and one-time Russian vice-consul in Shanghai during the:
Czarist regime.
Other major crimes committed were one kidnapping, one attempted kidnapping and two armed robberies in addition to several minor robberies, two cases of commandeering of garage rs by suspected gangsters, and several thefts.
The difficulties of the police in coping with the recent crime outbreak is ascribed partly to the political nature of the bigger cases.
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