THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 3, 1989.
PRINCE AND WAITER AS WITNESSES IN MAYFAIR MEN CASE
London, May 17.
Young, fair-haired Mrs. G. Bur- ley, of Seymour-place, W., said
to
have
been robbed of £2,860 jewels in a night club, was present at Marlborough- street Police Court yesterday when three young Mayfair men and a Kensington silversmith were again remanded.
Prince Galitzine, his sister Mrs. Pauline Vincent Daubeny, and the head waiter of a night club gave evidence. The waiter said he could not identify Mrs. Burley as having been at the club.
The four accused men are:- Victor F. C. Hervey, twenty-three, of Upper Berkeley-street (son of Lord Herbert Hervey and nephew of the Marquis of Bristol).
George Ernest Arthur Hering, twenty-three, of Great Cumberland- place, W. (who has been referred to by the prosecution as "Peter Proud").
Geoffrey Coop, twenty-three, of Conduit-mews, W., and
William Goodwin, thirty, a silver- smith, of Holland-road. Kensington. |
Hervey, Hering and Goodwin are charged with being concerned with others not in custody in stealing jewellery valued at £2,860 from
Mrs. Burley.
Hervey, Coop and Hering are charged with being concerned with others not in custody in breaking into a flat in Queen-street, Mayfair, and stealing jewellery worth £2,500 from Mrs. Daubeny.
sister of the prince, an attractively dressed young woman, said she had known Hering since last October, but did not know any of the other accused men.
Before going to Hering's sister she locked a quantity of jewellery in a cupboard in a bedroom of her | flat. She wore a pearl necklace, and a mink coat was in another cup- On her return from her board. week-end with Hering's sister her jewellery and the mink coat were gone.
Mrs. Burley, who was driven to the court in a closed car and had been waiting in an anti-room, was brought into court.
Victor Wolf Konasky, head waiter of the night club in Kingley-street, W., where she was alleged to have been robbed, was asked whether he could recognise her.
Konasky shook his head and said he could not recognise her as the woman who visited his club on the night of April 12 with Hering and Hervey and another man.
Walter was asked to stand up, but Konasky said he could not recog- nise him either.
FELL ASLEEP
The party were "very jovial," said Konasky. Later three other men- none of whom he could recognise in the dock-came in and sat at a nearby table.
when
At 5.30 in the morning Hering and Hervey and their two Michael Walter, aged twenty, of companions had left-he went to an Oakley-street, Chelsea, S.W., said Oxford-street restaurant in
res-
at the last hearing that he refusedponse to a telephone message. There to have anything to do with plans he saw Harvey and one of the three which were discussed in his pre-men who had sat at the adjoining sence, and was told if he gave the table. others away he "would be beaten up and would get the broken end of a bottle in his face."
to
From the restaurant they went to Hervey's flat where, according Hervey, a Mr. Ferguson wanted to see him. Nobody else was at the flat when they got there, and he fell asleep.
Walter, cross-examined yesterday by Mr. J. Franks, for Coop, said he had seen Coop twice in the public
When he awoke after two hours, house he mentioned in his evidence last week. Coop's name was never some strangers had arrived and he at any time mentioned in his hear-was asked to walk to another cafe ing, nor was he at the restaurant in Upper Berkeley-street. Two or at Marble Arch where certain dis- three men he had seen-before went cussions took place.
with him.
Was a lady named Edna mention- ed?--No.
Prince Galitzine said that he and his sister, Mrs. Daubeny, lived at a flat in Queen-street. He did not know either Coop or Goodwin.
Hering, whom he knew as Peter Proud, used to visit them at their flat, usually by invitation.
The prince said that he and his sister provisionally arranged an Easter week-end stay with Hering's ‚ sister, and arranged to meet Hering at the station. Hering telephoned
to say he could not come.
LOCKED UP JEWELS - Replying to Mr. Franks, the
Mr. H. A. K. Morgan, prose- cuting, said he was going to ask for a committal on a charge of con- spiracy.
The men were remanded on bail for a week on condition that they reported to the police once a day. The magistrate (Mr. Sandbach) re- fused to reduce Hering's bail of £5,000. Bail for Goodwin and Coop was reduced to £500,
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