The two gunmen disappeared, one of them on a bicycle. The coolie pulled his customer, already dead, to the Chinese police headquarters in Siccawei where he was detained for questioning. A party of Chinese police later went to the scene of the shooting but the gunmen were nowhere to be seen.
The dead detective, it is stated, was responsible for the arrest of a number of criminals operating in the extra-Settlement road areas, and the murder is said to be definitely an act of revenge on the part of the bandits.
He met his death while investigating an armed robbery committed on Monday morning shortly after 11 o'clock in a No. 7 bus of the China General Omnibus Company. When ihe bus stopped in Avenue Haig in. front of the China Funeral Bureau, five robbers boarded the vehicle and robbed most of the travellers of cash. When the Chinese police in Siccawei were informed of the crime Liu was sent to investigate the case,
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