The desperadoes made the mistake of trying to victimize a coal-shop within a few. blocks of the West Hongkew station. They pald dearly for their indiscretion when one of the employees of the shop managed slip" out unobserved and put through a message to the police, The result. was one of the most successful raids carried out by the police recent months. raiding party ped to the scene of the crime in bullet-proof vests, With apparent avenues escape blocked, gang retreated into 1 The fire of the robbers ately answered; one of killed on the spot while another was, Brought down while trying 10 climb over the coal-yard fence, 'The Police managed to come out of the shooting without a single' casualty but one female "Chinese Pedestrian was wounded slightly the arm. The only pistol used in the armed robbery Was seized. and a gold ring. which the gangsters had snatched off the fuger of one of their victims, was recovered, 'The wounded robber was sent' to the Police Hospital. His information. together with thai supplied by his arrested accomplice. was enough to) lead the police on to the track of the fifth member of the gang.
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