The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-27 00:00:00

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have said, we are sure, quite enough to corn-
mend to public attention the project of the tele-
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MURDER AND PIRACY IN CONSTANTI

NOP LE.

The Presse d'Orient of the 15th gives the folow-
ing account of a murder, which was recently com-
mitted at Constantinople :—" Sahli Effendi' an
officer in the Ottoman army, resided at Tchatal-
Khan, and had in his service an Arab of Damascus
who had been with him during the campaign in
the Crimea, and in whom he placed confidence,
although several friends had cautioned him that
the man did not bear a good character. A few
days ago the Arab called on Hussein Effendi, an
intimate friend of Salib, and said that as his mas-
ter had received orders to leave immedi,tely,
he would be glad to have a sum of 5,000
piastres which Hussein owed him. The lat-
er was rather astonished at the demand being
made through the Arab, and told him that lie
would go and pay his master in person. While
proceeding to the place where the Arab said his
waster would be found, he was surprised to meet
the man leading a horse •on which Salih's effects
were packed, and on, being interrogated, the ser-
vant said that ho was going to convey them to the
house of a friend. This information increased the
astonishment of Hussein, and he determined to
watch the man, who finding that he was suspected
unloaded the things before one of the houses he
came to, and was about to take to flight, when
Hussein laid hold of him, and gaVe him into the
hands of the police. At the moment when the po-
lice took him the Arab exclaimed, ' I ought to have
got rid of Hussein Effendi before I disposed of my
master! This remark excited still greater suspicion,
and the same day it was discovered that the body
of a,murdered person-, out into pieces, had been
discovered near the sea shore, and it turned out
to be that of Salih Effendi. The Arab then con-
fessed the whole affair. He had, he said, as-
sassina' ed his master with the aid of an Armenian,
and after cutting up the body with a razor, placed
it in a sack which they confided to another man to
throw into the sea, for:which service he demanded
and received the sum of 6,000 piastres. On
reaching ledi-Koulle, ho took the sack from the
cart and carried it to the waters edge and was about
to throw it in, when seeing two persons approach-
ing, he left it on the shore and made off. Hussein
Effendi recognised the head as being not of his
friend. The Armenian had since b3en arrested and
the police are on the trace of the other man."
The same journal contains the following :—" A
daring act of piracy was committed three evenings
ago. One of the six-oared caiqs, which ply between
Coum-Capou and ledi Koulle left the former place
with 14 male and female passengers, among whom
was a young Armenian who had with him a sum of
40,000 piastres. When at some distance on her way
she was boarded by another boat, a part of the crew
of which, jumping on board the caiq, demanded
that the Armenian should be given up to them.
In the struggle which took place, the caiq was up-
set, and all the passengers thrown into the water.
The pirates, however, seized hold of the Armenian,
got him into their own boat, and rowed off, leaving
the others to their fate. Only three of them were
able to reach the shore, all the rest being drowned.
Several of the pirates have been since arrested ; all
are Turks, and they had divided the booty equally
among them. The police lately captured 23 thieves
who are suspected of being connected with the dif-
ferent robberies lately committed in the Turkish
capital."