BERKELEY HOTEL BURGLARY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13753, 19 June 1913, Page 5

BERKELEY HOTEL BURGLARY.

A PORTER CHARGED.

London, June 17

James, a night porter at the Berkeley Hotel, was charged with complicity in the robbery from the hotel.

Four men entered an unlocked garage early on the morning of May 29th, and subsequently crossed by an iron bridge, climbed a 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 the head. While he was unconscious they bound and gagged him, and filing him bn-.'a sofa. James, another porter, i said they then attacked him. Ho struggled and was similarly treated and placed in an ante-room when he was unconscious. The burglars opfened tho safe with a key, apparently obtained from an accomplice in the hotel, and stole £3000 worth of jewellery, and money belonging to,.ladies staying at the hotel. They descended to the basement, and then'ascended in the luggage lift "to the street. Gowers was seriously hurt. - '■

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