LONDON HOTEL BURGLARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1780, 19 June 1913, Page 5

LONDON HOTEL BURGLARY.

9 A NIGHT PORTER ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, June 17. James, one of the night porters at the Berkeley Hotel, has been charged with complicity in the recent burglary.

On May 28 last,,two night porters at the Berkeley Hotel, Piccadilly, were found bound, gagged, and wounded, and a large safe was found to have been cleared of jewellery. Pour men, so the story went, entered an unlocked garage early in the morning, subsequently crossed an iron bridge, climbed a fire escape ladder, and entered a window in the hotel. They then crept along the entrance hall and struck Towers, a porter, from behind, inflicting terrible wounds on the head. When he was unconscious, they bound and gagged him and flung him on to a sofa. Then they attacked James, another porter, wio struggled. He was similarly treated, and placed in an anteroom in an unconscious condition. The burglars opened the safe with a key, apparently obtained from am accomplice in the hotel, and stole .£3OOO worth of jewellery and money belonging to ladies in the hotel. They then descended to the basement, where they asoended by. a luggage lift to the street. Towers waS sent to hospital u a serious condition.