DARING BURGLARY.
9 —: — HOTEL SAFE RIFLED. PORTERS SEVERELY HANDLED. Tolegranli—Frosi Association—Coorrlsht London, May 29. Two night porters at the Berkeley Hotel, Piccadilly, were found bound, gagged, and wounded. A largo safe had been cleared of much jewellery. Further investigation showed that four men entered an unlocked garage early in the morning, subsequently crosscd an iron bridge, climbed a fire escape ladder, and entered a window in the Berkeley Hotel. They then crept along the entrance ball and struck Towers, a porter, from behind, inflicting' terrible wounds on the head. When ho was unconscious they bound dnd gagged him and flung him on to a sofa. They then attacked James, another porter, who struggled. Ho was similarly treated, and placed in an anteroom in an unconscious condition.
The burglars opened tho safe, with a key, apparently obtained from an accoin,plic9 ii in,. the hotel,,and stole three thousand pounds worth of jewellery and irioney belonging to ladies in the hotel.
They then descended to tho basemont, whero tliey ascended by a luggage lift to the street.
Towers ivas sent to hospital in a serious condition. ■ .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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183DARING BURGLARY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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