POLICE RAID
CROOKS'HEADQUARTERS FASHIONABLE NEW YORK HOTEL BIG HAUL OF BOOTY (United Preen Asßooiation—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 28th May. Police ibis week raided a room in a fashionable hotel, which proved to be the headquarters of William O'Connor and his gang of crooks-, and secured most of the booty stolen in November from aighteen dinner guests, and valued at £IOO,OOO. Whon the police arrived someone throw a purse out of a window which contained 21,000 dollars in banknotes, which fluttered in the wind. «' Detectives later traced O'Connor's safety deposit box which contained £200,000 value in precious stones and cash, one emerald ring valued at £4OOO, a pearl necklace appraised at £3OOO, and four valises full of some of the finest jewels in the country.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 May 1930, Page 5
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