Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-02
ROBBERY.
Robbery of the Safe Of the Beard Of Mis-
sloHs of the Northern Methodist
Church.
Property to the Amount SI5O,0OO, the
Earnings Of Poor Preachers, Carried
Away.

NEW York, September 1.-Yester-
day morning il was discovered that the
GREAT safes in the rooms OF the Board
1f Missions of the Methodist Book
Concern, sos Broadway, had been
rohbed and property to the amount OF
SI5O.OO0 carried away. On entering
the room in the morning scene Of
confusion presented Itself. The moor
was thicky streWn with papers, large
heather wallets and bill books, and
here and there tin box forced open
and emptied of its contents. Among
MANY papers thrown about the room
were found to be a large number OF
registered II. S. bonds. No clue to
the perpetration of the robbery seemed
TO present itselftO any of the Reverend
Secretaries, and on examination the
safes were found to be empued OF
everything of negotiable value, IN
eluding a service of silver plate, be-
longing to Rev. Mr.. DepeW, and other
articles of silverware, the property Of
clergymen who had used the facilities
offered by the large safes as a sort OF
safe deposit. Some small wallets, con-
tained the savings of lifetime of
frugality and economy by humble
parish preachers and others, and large
ones were well filled with the surplus
accumulated by fortunate and lash
lOudDlc ENOh VI Ai1 boAAo
as are registered We're quietly
thrown on the floor, and those
which were payable to bearer
were invariably removed. The larg-
eat single loser is the Secretary of the
Missionary Board, who was robbed OF
$4,000. II seems very strange to a
casual observer that the robbery
should have been successfully per
formed by any one not well aequaint-
At, and fanf-
liar with the place. There are two
night watchmen on the outside OF the
building, and one on the inside, and tho
only persons having rooms on the floor,
with the exception of an artist and
one other person, are churchmen con-
neeted with some Of the many Meth
Odist concerns. Money of the society
was deposited in different places, and
that of the Book Concern was in safe
in another part of the building. 1t is
therefore only individuals who lose.
1T Is thought that the loss will be
almost irreparable to them and sweep
aWay the savings of the best part OF
their lives. The officials of the Book
Concern were very retieent and stolid
TO reporters yesterday. They did not
choose TO disclose anything in regard
70 the affair for publication at the pres
ant time, and they had been adj
. yised by the detectives to withhold all
information for some days. They also
declined the suppression Of the above
statement. There is some reason to
suspect that if the robbery was Perpe-
trafed by parties not in the employ OF
the Book Concern, it was accomplished
at least by expert burglars, as they
were shrewd enough not TO ap-
propriate any of the registered United
Stats bonds. A rather strange CIR
ennastsnee Of the depreciation is, that
the ssfes were in no wise injured, but
were opened by keys, and as they
were itted with combination locks,
Ia to open them the thieves must have
obtained the combination of numbers
or characters. The safes were OF Mar,
wins make, and were considered
hrst-class of this kind.