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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1921, Page 1

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j,J ARAIEI) THIEVES. w! NEW YORK. Dec. 22. New Yorkers were considerably per- fi tui'bed to read this morning the latest ' l j incident in the crime wave which is sweeping this city and lms led the newspapers to declare that it was St safer t«‘ live in .Manhattan Island (on to which New York is built) USO years ago ' ;!1 among wild animals and Redskins than it is to-day. ’ i East evening four people were dressing for dinner in their suite in the Hotel Aster when they were held up 1 with pistols'and robbed of all they pos-•e-sed. One was knocked senseless by i blow from the butt of tt revolver. The Aster is situated in Times■ouare. New York's Piccadillv-eirous. . ~ ‘ VO It corresponds in otluw respects to the : I’icadilly Hotel, Loudon. The victims of the robbery are Mr Even Linthwaite and .Mr IT. 1.. AY or- PI ey, both prominent figures in the notor citr and aeroplane industry, and heir wives. Airs Linthwaite, bearing i knock at the outer door of the suite, vas faced by three masked mem, who •overed her with the revolvers and hreed her to admit them. The two ■ouples were ranged against a wall litli their bands up. - Air Worley thrust a boot through the (j o rindow. The crash of the falling glass ras heard hy a policeman in Broadway, md he ran into the hotel upstairs to lie rooms, accompanied by a house de- col eetive. They and Air Worley caught me man. Or DEAD KING’S CHAUFFEUR. ATHENS, Dee. 29. The chauffeur of the late King Alexmder, the second son of Constantine, vho died from a monkey bite, commited suicide yesterday in the palace ;rouuds. Alexander’s portrait "'as ound on him. He was a devoted servant and was ffected by the populace’s forgetfulness ~ f Ids master. On his deathbed Alexnder had hidden him farewell and j iven to him a golden cross. gt£