Durham, May 17—Two rooms on different floors of the Washington Duke Hotel were entered Saturday night while guests slept and robbed of $50, the guests reported this morning.
C.P. Means, registered from Richmond, Va., reported $16 taken from his room and P.c. Jenkins, Huntington, W. Va., $34, all in bills. No clues were left.
Several hundred dollars is reported to have been taken from several rooms in Hotel Charlotte, Charlotte, last week after the races. The first such burglary reported was at the Charlotte hotel last year, when half a dozen rooms were robbed of more than $200, a similar robbery following at George Vanderbilt Hotel, Asheville, a few days later.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, May 18, 1926
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