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The Mayfair jewel case, arising out of the robbery of eight ring valued at £19,000, in a fashionable Park Lane Hotel last December, ended at the Old Bailey yesterday in the conviction of all ihe four accused—young men from good families—on different counts, The trial, which lasted four da excited enormous interest and was attended daily by many prominent society people, Robert Paul Ifarley, 26, described as a journalist, was found guilty on all four counts, namely:
1. Conspiring "o steal rings from Cartier Limited:
2. Robbing Mr. E. Beilenger (Direc-for of Cartier Limited) of eight diamond ring 3. Using personal violence against Mr. Bellenger at the time of the robbery, and 4. Receiving the rings, knowing them to be stolen.
David Wilmer, 24, an advertising agent, and Peter Martin Jenkins, 23, independent, were convicted on counts one, two and three, while J. C, W. Lonsdale, 24, an agent, was convicted on count one.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, sentenced:
Harley to seven ye penal servitude and two years' hard labour, the sentences to run concurrently, and twenty strokes with the "cat Warr to five years' penal sertitude and two years' hard labour, the sentences to run concurrently, and fifteen strokes with the "cat"; Jenkins to three years' penal seritude and two years' hard labour, the sentences to run concurrently:
LowspALE to eighteen months' hard labour, "Unspeakable Outrage"
Lord Hewart described the attack on Mr. Bellenger as an "unspeakable outrage."
The rings have all been recovered.
Counsel for the prosecution in outlining the case during the trial, said that, while showing the rings in a suite at the hotel Mr. Bellenger received a blow on the head Turning round Mr. Bellenger found the man who had struck him standing with what looked a black mallet in his hand and wearing tinted spectacles and a dark coloured handkerchief over the lower part of his face, Subsequently, counsel said, Mr. Bellenger was shown photographs of the men, and he declared that the one with the mallet was Harley.—
Reuter,
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