A POLICE RAID
ON NEW YORK CROOKS
p United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 28
The police this week raided a room in a fashionable hotel which proved to be the headquarter-s of William O’Connor and his gang ot crooks, and secured most of the booty stolen In November from eighteen dinner guests, valued at one hundred thousand sterling. When the police arrived someone threw a purse out of a window which contained twenty-one thousand dollars in bank notes, which fluttered in the wind. Detectives, later traced O’Connor’s safety deposit box which contained two hundred thousand sterling value, of precious stones and cash. One emerald ring was valued at four thousand sterling, and a pearl necklace appraised at three thousand. Four. valises were filled with some of the finest jewels in the country’.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 5
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141A POLICE RAID Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1930, Page 5
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