Shanghai, Dec. 31
Rumours were current in the Russian colony here that the Tater-national Settlement Police are aware of the identity of an accomplice in the murder of Mr. Charles E. Metzler, late chairman of the Rus sian Emigrants" Committee who had been shot dead outside his home in Nanyang Road on the morning of Roach August These rumours were started following the arrest of four Russians, one of them said to have been per petrator of several political murders in Harbin, by members of the Shanghai Municipal Police several weeks go for disorderly conduct, They una the request of the Police, who asked
men's records. for more time "to investigate the may be recalled that several vitricsses saw a foreigner, presumably Russian, hovering in the neighbourhood of the late Mr. Metzler's home on the morning of the assassination. It was also believed that this man left in the same car with the Chinese assassin.
This fact and knowledge that one fof the quartet had. been. implicated in several murders in Harbin started rumours going, it being said that the Police have found a pistol which as later discovered to be the one with which Mr, Metzler had been killed, Members. of Stan Whether these rumours are true or not could not be ascertained as information could be obtained from the. Police.
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