CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 105, 3 April 1926, Page 14

CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD.

TRAGIC MISTAKE MADE. MEMBER OF SHANGHAI POLICE. SHANGHAI, Feb. 14. Police Constable Goulding, of tho Shanghai Municipal Police, was shot dead lust Tuesday by a member of tlie Chapel Volunteer Jb'orce (a Chinese organisation), while endeavouring to capture an armed robber. Goulding was off duty at the time and was in mufti. He was returning, late at night, to his station, with a fellow constable, through the Northern Chinese suburb of Shanghai, when they heard shouts of “robber” and appeals for help coming from a Chinese house. Both men rushed to the scene and arrived in time to see a man disappearing over a back wall. Goulding’s friend was helping him over the wail in pursuit of tho robber, when several members of tho Chapel Volunteer Force arrived. Apparently, in the dark, mistaking Goulding for tho robber, one of the Chinese fired his revolver. Goulding was shot through the heart and died in tho hospital a few hours afterwards. Ho was only 27 years of age, and the son of an Australian sheep farmer. He was a promising young member of the Police Force, and had served during the war, first with a Scottish regiment and afterwards in tho Australian Expeditionary Forces. Goulding was given a military funeral. The procession was headed by a file of Sikh troopers and' the band of tho Shanghai Volunteer Corps. The coffin was borne on a gun-carriage furnished by tho Field Artillery Battery.