A DARING ROBBERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 317, 31 May 1913, Page 5

A DARING ROBBERY.

LONDON HOTEL RIFLED. NIGHT PORTERS "SLUGGED." By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May 29. Two night porters at tfye Berkeley. Hotel, Piccadilly, were bound, gagged and wounded, and a large safe cleared of much jewellery. , Four men entered an unlocked motor garage in the early morning. They subsequently crossed an iron bridge and climbed the fire escape ladder, and entered a window of the Berkeley Hotel. ■They crept to the entrance hall, and struck Gowers, a porter, from behind, inflicting terrible wounds about his head. When he was unconscious, they bound and gagged him, and flung him on a sofa. They then attacked James, another porter, who, when he struggled with them, was similarly treated and placed in an ante-room. When he was ■unconscious the burglars opened the safe with a key, which had apparently been obtained from an accomplice inside the hotel. They stole £3OOO worth of jewellery and money belonging to some ladies, and descended to the basement, where ther ascended in the luggage lift , to the Street. * , Gowers .was removed to the hospital. He is seriously hurt.