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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER

Burglars

Run Flats As Safe

Is Raided

New York, Dec. 17.**

A GANG of burglars

who took over the management and operation of a six-storey apartment house in the heart of New York in order to raid a jewel safe are to-day being. sought by detectives.

Members of the gong seized three workers in the Building, dressed themselves in their clothing, and carried out their jobs for five hours.

They showed prospective tenants over vacant flats, ran lifts, stoked the furnace, and worked the tele- phone switchboard.

Meanwhile, another of the gang bored.

through a a ceiling to □ jewel

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shop on the ground floor and opened Rail King Dies

anfe with oxy-acetylene.

Then he removed nearly £2,000 worth of rings and brooches.

One of his confederates helped, u woman down some steps with her perambulator, and she was so pleased by his courtesy that she gave him a

tip

When the safe cracksman had finished his job he rounded up his mates said "O.K., Let's go"--and they went.

NEW MASSAGE PARLOUR RAID IN NEW YORK Mystery of a "Titled

Englishman"

in Train

ROMANCE OF TWO ERRAND BOYS

The Van Sweringen

Brothers:

New York, Dec. 14. Mr. Oris van Sweringen, aged 57, one of the celebrated brothers whose dream of rollway empire was smash- ed by the depression, has died of a heart attack aboard a railway train en route from Cleveland to New York. He survived his younger brother. liantis by less than a year.

The two brothers, who come to be called the Siamese Twins of Ameri- can railroad Beance, were amazing- ly alike. Both were short, plump, grey-haired and grey-faced, the cons of a poor Ohio farmer of Dutch stock.

other. Oris

New York, Dec. 15. A case in which allegations are made concerting the conduel of luxurious massafe and health in-From infiney they had been sin- stitute was resumed to-day in the Eularly close to euch New York Court of Special Scasious.

was only 12 and his brother 10 when their father died almost penniless. The court was again crowded with They both left school.and began do- fashionably dressed spectators, who ing odd jobs in the nearby city of expected to hear further disclosures

Cleveland, working together about a visitor to the establishment who has been referred to by nurses there only as "the Englishman."

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errand boys and clerics for real estate salesmen. They always pooled their earnings and devoted their whole lives to advancement, neither ever

The defendant is Dr. Anna Swift, A whip has been produced as evid-marrying. ence, and It has been stated by nurses that "the Englishman" was a popular visitor to the institute,

FOUR NURSES

Nurse Emma Bond testified that the "handsorne foreigner known as the Englishman' " used to employ four nurses for "treatments" and on one occasion pald £16:

It had been suggested that "the Englishman" had a title, but this statement has not been made during the trial.

Their first big venture consisted in "selling themselves" as good credit grizler vi a, lonle, which financed their purchase of an undeveloped acreage quide. Clevçund. This they turned Into I fashionable suburb called Shaker Heights.. .To-day 30,000 people make their homes there and valuation, even at depression Jevels, was £16,000,000,

the

HUGE ENTERPRISE

On this foundation grew a strue- ture of tramways, coal mines, and later, railways, of such magnitude To-day the New York police re- vealed that they had rakded another common fortune at 128,500,000 del- that in 1929 they estimated their massage parlour and that a doctor-tare (C25,700,000) Sunarting with named Jolin Vanhorn, and two the purchase of the bankrupt Nickel- women, Miss Betty Depellegrini and plate Ralfroad in 1910, they gradual- Kate Behrens (described as un opera-

tor) were involved in charges con- ly took in other lines until, on the cerning Immorality.

woman

It was alleged that the Behrens "made advances" to a police- man who visited the parlour osten sibly for massage treatment,

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