Hi
I'm new here and wanted to say hi to all my fellow Texans and gun enthusiasts.
I recently had my fathers pistol stolen in San Angelo, Tx at the Clarion Hotel room 303 on August 13, 2016
It was a Carl Walther's PPK/S 9MM Kurz/380ACP with a Deep Blued Finish
I'm heart broken and feel totally violated by the Staff of the Clarion Hotel!! Here's a Message I just sent the Owners of the Silver Spurs Gun Shows, if anyone has any suggestions or advise I'd enjoy hearing it.
Hi Kim
Thank You so much, we know who did it but have no recourse or way to search the premises or his living quarters on the sixth floor or the "End maintenance room" on the end of the 3rd floor that was very close to our room (#303) of the Clarion Hotel. It was the Head Engineer as he called himself. My Father Melvin J. Kessler Jr. carried this Carl Walther's PPK/S 9MM Kurz with his concealed carry license and he used a gun bag he made out of an old Diabetic blood glucose checker carry Case that was Heavy Black Canvas, it held the Walthers Packaging and a box of Winchester bullets perfectly. It had a front pouch also. My dad died in 2010 with complications from diabetes since he was 33 years old, he fought it badly for nearly 50 years.
I'm sickened by the event and have concluded exactly how and when he took the firearm, We were walking in the side door and I told Barbara that we'd better not leave the pistol in the van and that we should take it to the room, this was Saturday evening. We encountered a gentleman picking up caution cones near the elevator and asked him if he worked there and he said he was the head of Maintenance and was titled "Head Engineer".
We went on to tell him that we had a mattress in our room that was collapsed and needed to be replaced. He kindly rode the elevator up to the third floor and followed us to the room and waited as I sat down the pistol in it's bag and the little cooler I was carrying to open the door, we entered and I let him go first ahead of me because its a narrow passage. As I entered the room behind him I layed down the Gun in it's case on a footstool near the door and Barbara sat here purse next to it. He promptly looked at the defective mattress and removed it and in doing so he sorta slipped behind and momentarily crouched behind it as he slide it past the bed I was perched on and it was at that point he snagged the bag with the gun it and I never noticed it was missing or not sitting there anylonger. We exited the room after he brought the new mattress in and made the bed and left the room and as we walked down the hall he stood just around the corner partially exposing himself and watching us and asked if we were gonna be alright finding the pool, we replied yes and the elevator door closed. As we rode down on the elevator I mentioned to Barbara that the maintenance man asking us if we were gonna be alright was a little weird especially how he was stood halfway behind the corner in the hallway. It keep bothering me so after about an hour I made a trip up the room and noticed something wasn't right but just couldn't place what it was so I went back down stairs and told Barb I must be going crazy that something didn't look right about our room but that I couldn't place exactly what it was, it was then that it dawned on me the Gun bag wasn't laying on the little footstool so we ran back up to the room and sure it was no where to be found so we called the police. The funny part about all of this was that barbs purse was sitting right next to the gun bag with $500.00 laying in the top of it along with her wallet and it was untouched, nothing but the gun bag was gone and when the officer summed him to the room he was more than willing to check the Integrity of the Lock on the door. Incidentally that didn't reveal anything. So in short the gun was stolen as lay there watching him drag the mattress out of the room in the very beginning.
I'm new here and wanted to say hi to all my fellow Texans and gun enthusiasts.
I recently had my fathers pistol stolen in San Angelo, Tx at the Clarion Hotel room 303 on August 13, 2016
It was a Carl Walther's PPK/S 9MM Kurz/380ACP with a Deep Blued Finish
I'm heart broken and feel totally violated by the Staff of the Clarion Hotel!! Here's a Message I just sent the Owners of the Silver Spurs Gun Shows, if anyone has any suggestions or advise I'd enjoy hearing it.
Hi Kim
Thank You so much, we know who did it but have no recourse or way to search the premises or his living quarters on the sixth floor or the "End maintenance room" on the end of the 3rd floor that was very close to our room (#303) of the Clarion Hotel. It was the Head Engineer as he called himself. My Father Melvin J. Kessler Jr. carried this Carl Walther's PPK/S 9MM Kurz with his concealed carry license and he used a gun bag he made out of an old Diabetic blood glucose checker carry Case that was Heavy Black Canvas, it held the Walthers Packaging and a box of Winchester bullets perfectly. It had a front pouch also. My dad died in 2010 with complications from diabetes since he was 33 years old, he fought it badly for nearly 50 years.
I'm sickened by the event and have concluded exactly how and when he took the firearm, We were walking in the side door and I told Barbara that we'd better not leave the pistol in the van and that we should take it to the room, this was Saturday evening. We encountered a gentleman picking up caution cones near the elevator and asked him if he worked there and he said he was the head of Maintenance and was titled "Head Engineer".
We went on to tell him that we had a mattress in our room that was collapsed and needed to be replaced. He kindly rode the elevator up to the third floor and followed us to the room and waited as I sat down the pistol in it's bag and the little cooler I was carrying to open the door, we entered and I let him go first ahead of me because its a narrow passage. As I entered the room behind him I layed down the Gun in it's case on a footstool near the door and Barbara sat here purse next to it. He promptly looked at the defective mattress and removed it and in doing so he sorta slipped behind and momentarily crouched behind it as he slide it past the bed I was perched on and it was at that point he snagged the bag with the gun it and I never noticed it was missing or not sitting there anylonger. We exited the room after he brought the new mattress in and made the bed and left the room and as we walked down the hall he stood just around the corner partially exposing himself and watching us and asked if we were gonna be alright finding the pool, we replied yes and the elevator door closed. As we rode down on the elevator I mentioned to Barbara that the maintenance man asking us if we were gonna be alright was a little weird especially how he was stood halfway behind the corner in the hallway. It keep bothering me so after about an hour I made a trip up the room and noticed something wasn't right but just couldn't place what it was so I went back down stairs and told Barb I must be going crazy that something didn't look right about our room but that I couldn't place exactly what it was, it was then that it dawned on me the Gun bag wasn't laying on the little footstool so we ran back up to the room and sure it was no where to be found so we called the police. The funny part about all of this was that barbs purse was sitting right next to the gun bag with $500.00 laying in the top of it along with her wallet and it was untouched, nothing but the gun bag was gone and when the officer summed him to the room he was more than willing to check the Integrity of the Lock on the door. Incidentally that didn't reveal anything. So in short the gun was stolen as lay there watching him drag the mattress out of the room in the very beginning.