INTERNATIONAL HOTEL THIEVES.
A BERLIN GANG,
[Pbbm Association— CoprBWHT.]
Berlin, April 12. The police here have discovered that a man, who was formerly a chimney sweep, is the organiser of an international gang of hotel thieves. He began by utilising his chimney-climbing powers to enter hotels. Afterwards he "organised a band of thirty actual thieves, besides agents and receivers. This gang was responsible for the robbery of £24,000 worth of jewels from the Grand Hotel at Genoa on July 7th. 1908. Seventeen arrests have been effected in different Continental cities. . . The Berlin police estimate tnat £200,000 worth of plunder was obtained between 1902 and 1907.
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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12768, 14 April 1910, Page 3
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105INTERNATIONAL HOTEL THIEVES. Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12768, 14 April 1910, Page 3
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