GREAT ROBBERY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 712, 9 March 1881, Page 2

GREAT ROBBERY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

The Levant Herald reports that an extensive robbery of gold bars, coins, and jewelry took place recently: at the offices of Apik Oundjian Effenhi, an Armenian banker in Nafie Khan, near the Baloukbazaar, Stamboul. The. thieves-made their way into the building by an opening which they made in the ceiling of a snop on the ground floor, distant 35ft in a direct line from the counting-house they had in view. Admission gained to the interior of the khat, two partitions made of sheet iron one-nth of an inch-thick,' had to be pierced. Having cut their way through these the robbers found them; selves in M. Oudjian's counting-house, The objects of value' which" this latter contained were stowed in a safe .manufactured by Wertheim, 'of Vienna! _ Of this safeguard the-robbers disposed without much difficulty, Tljey flawed srp,«glj the steel plate which 'covered''the,' lock, opened the safe, and possessed themselves of its contents to the value pi". in in gold bars, gold : and silver coin'-and jewelry. The' odabashi of the khan and thosariffwholet off the outside shop to the Greek hosier from whose tenement the hole was worked'through the ceiling!were at once arrested. On'the following day four men who are believed •k> have been concerned in the robbery, were captured. All four' were Hellenic- sub,jects, and were cqnypyed wider escorf'tq the Grand Zaptief where they underwent along examination,