After being in hospital since day morning when several Chin made an attempt to assassinate him, Lieutenant Pierre Blanchet Deputy Commissioner in charge of the uniformed branch of the French Municipal Police, left the Ste. Marie's Hospital yesterday morning, although he will have to remain a few days at home before he can resume his duties at French Police Headquarters.
The attempted assassination still remains a mystery for no clues whatever have been left by the would-be murderers. One of their number was seen to fall and it was presumed that he had been wounded by Lieutenant Blanchet, but although all the incoming patients of the city's hospitals have been checked, the wounded gunman still remains at large.
No motive for the attempted assassination could be given by the officials of the French Police, although they were positive that it had nothing to do with polities.
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