THIEF'S JEWEL HAULS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 10

THIEF'S JEWEL HAULS

RAIDS ON HOTELS BLONDE AT CHOICE LONDON, Feb. -22. An amazing story ol the exploits of a woman hotel tliieL who was said to he “bound to the chariot wheels of a barm of international crooks,” was told at London Sessions yesterday.

Helen Doyle, 00, of Dawson place, IJa vs water, slim and attractive, and wearing a fur coat arid black hut, was found guilty on three, indictments ol receiving jewellery valued at £BSO trom West End hotels. Detective-Sergeant Webby said that in 1925 Doyle was sentenced at the OJn Bailee to 21 months’ hard labor lor stealing jewellery worth thousands ol pounds Irom West End hotels. Altci leaving prison in December, 1926, slw IPod in Marylehoiie and Rays water, and then took her present flat at which she kept a servant. Her clothing was always bought at fashionable West End testa blislinicnK Slw had two or three, fur coats, and tbo one she was wearing in the dock was bought by her two days before her arrest, for £4l • She. had a child eight years old, ol whom she appeared to he passionately fond. She also had a hanking account. POSE AS GUEST. Sergeant Welsby continued For more than two years this wmnai bos been a tremendous source of trouble to the police, especially in Kensington. We look, upon her as a most, persistent, oik) one of tlie most clever good-class hotel thieves in .London, and one who is difficult- to arrest. Her method in till cases is to cntei boldly as a guest, well dressed, as sin always is, go to the top floors and enter rooms' while the occupants are. downstairs. On finding jewel-cases m handbags, she goes to the bathroom, locks herself in, extracts all the valuables and walks outturn difficulty has ‘been owing to tindescriptions given by people as to the thief. Some have said they saw a blonde, and others a brunette. This k accounted for by her wearing false ban such as this , . (Sergeant Wclsbv produced two faircolored' side pieces of hair, and explained that, when worn under a. hat they gave the impression that Dovlo was a blonde; without, them she. was a brunette.) . Lu answer to Air. Pmaitfoi Moore, who defended, Sergeant AV cl shy said In estimated that tbo value of the stolen property attributed to Doyle to he he tween £4OOO and £SOOO. I \ TKRN A TION AL CR.OO.KS’. Air. Moore: Mm made up your mind to land this woman? —She has caused me a great amount of worry. |) (> you agree, that she is in the dutches "* an international band of crooks, who exploit London hotels by means of women lilm her. and that one of them is the father "j her child?—l Jinvo no information of that. Mr. Moore: It would appear that she is bound to file chariot wheels of a band of international crooks. Doyle was sentenced to 18 months’ iin prisoninenl. ),