MYSTERIOUS BANK ROBBERIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5335, 21 December 1878, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS BANK ROBBERIES.

In theft of £15,000 from the Bank of ishati has beoo surpassed in magnitude hy 7; robberies in Itrdy—one from the Banci of 2.500,0U0f; the other at Xap e* the (irne amount from the heir* of i: Marchese d'Aiulrea. The B.mca Xa-;-3s!e affair i-s still a mystery. On Saturjr, the 19th Oct , the branch of the bank : Ascoaa received a trlogram .from the at Genoa t.o send them 5,000 000 F. ;enoi«s were taken from the ?afe, counted i;: by the cashier in presence of the diiec- \ 12-1 put into throe leather bags, two of L ; :h were tied at the handles, sealed, anrl rm to the cashtfr, a clerk, aud a porter, take to Genoa. The train leaves at night; 1 the cashier went to see some friends, isg the clerk and porter to meet him at ; station with the money ; and then all ::ewcnt on to Genoa with the bags. The se baga were put into the safe for the it without examining the contents ; and : next morning when they came -to be iinoiitit was found that one of the two •Ti;-ccTered bags had been changed, and place was a bag, like it in appec ranee, ikii with, a common seal, containing a entity of shavings instead of the 2,50 l ),000f. lichshould have been there. The cashier i gone off tc Milan, but was telegraphed :ud arrested there. The other two were at Genoa; but whether the bag wan iHiedat Genoa after delivery, whether iu appeared during the absence of the cashier iwheiher some conjuring waß practised in office at Ancona is still a mystery wh>'ch i police are endeavouring to solve. The uer robbery has nothing remarkable about except its magnitude. A certain Marchese Andrea lived for many years in a house iosging to five sisters at Naples. A short as ago he died, and his heirs, two nephews, lid the property left to be less than they pected, and began to make inquiries, jpirion pointed to the five sisters, and -V -sere arrested and searched. On one of im Kas found sewn up in her clothes, C<'Of. of Rente, and each of them a her share of the plunder concea'ed ewhere. The servants of the deceased 1:= then arrested and found to have a large itt-tyof bonds in their lodging o , and eo property to the value of some 3,000,000f. recovered, and it is bel eved there sore to be found yet. This comes of the bit which Italians have of keeping all it property stowed away in their own