Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-11
TURNS GREAT RonBGRY.
AD Extraordinary Tale and Curious Con-
tradietioua.
Ro,oe DisDateh to the London Times.


tradietiona.
Rome DisDatcA TO The London Times.
The Turin papers are filed with details
concerning the great robbery committed
in the armory Of the royal palace in that
city. The cabinet containing the valuable
collection begun by King Charles Albert,
and increased by King Victor Emmanuel
and King Humber, Of decorations pre-
scented to the Dukes and Kings
OF the house OF Savoy by foreign
sovereigns, ornaments worn by the
Savoy queens and princesses, medals
OF various kinds. Greek and Roman
money, and other objects Of great intrinsic,
historic, and artistic value, has been
broken into and great portion Of It's con-
tents carried on. Among these are
the crowns OF gold presented by the
cities OF Turin and Naples to Victor
Emmanuel. a pair of gold stirrups sent
20 him by the sultan, four ancient gold
coins found in the excavation in the Cri-
mes, silVer-gilt chaiice with sacred sub
iects, lnlaiG in enamel, Of the seventeenth
century; TWO gold snuff boxes set with
diamonCs, one bearing tue cipher of Vic
tor Amadeus III. and the other the pOr-
trait Of QuCo Maria FerIinanda; four
collars OF the Order OF the AnnunziatH,
set with upward OF 1900 brIli0lts, worth
6OJ,00OL; Two stars set with 100 briliants,
worth 400 0OOf., and very many other OBJ
jects, u the total amount OF about 2O00,-
ODOt. The panes OF one Of the windows in
the room in which the collection was kept
were found broken through, and from the
ground beneath it footsteps and marks OF
blood were traced across the garden, and
two or three objects from the cabinet,
which seemed TO have been dropped by
the thieves on their way, were picked up
there.
These indications led to the supposition
that the thieves must either have entered
10y way Of the garden and have broken in
through the window, or that they must
have found means to secrete themselves
IN the aumOry before 1t was closed for the
nignt, and that when everything was
quiet they plundered the cabinet aud
made their way out by the garden. Strict
inquiries have, however, led the police
to conclude that the robbery was com
mitted by persons living in the
palace, and That the broken window.
The footeteps, and blood stains across
the garden, and the things scattered
along the route were nothing but blinds
artfully prepared, in order to turn the at
tention of the police in the wrong direc.
ton. Some Irregularities on the part OF
day preceding the night Of the robbery
his having closed it at an unusual hour,
and his having then mislaid the key
have aroused such strong suspicious
against him that he has been arrested
The breaking up of SO unique u cOllec-
ton, which will be the result OF the rob-
berry unless everything can be recovered,
is more to be deplored than the monetary
value OF the things stolen, great as It is.
Rome DisDdtch 10 the London Times, Aug. %.
Ii would appear that the long details
concerning what was described as the
colossal robbery at the Turin srmOry, so
coplously given by the Turin newspapers,
were little more than gross exRggeratiOns.
The P0p0tO ROmQHO saysit is assured that
the Kings precious cabinetO medals was
not even touched, that nothing is missing
from it, ald that the total value OF the
things stolen Is but little in excess of
100000. II this be the case 1t Is, TO say
the least, difficult to understand where
such authoritative Turn papers as the
GdEzettd del P0pOiO and the Gdzzettd Pie
nlORteSe, to say nothing OF the correspond
eDts Of some OF the Roman papers, OBJ
tanned their information. The Gazzetta del
POpOi0 published a long list Of the
valuable objects stolen, and the Gdzzette
PlcmOnteSe described the collars of the
AnnuuZiata and the stars and gave the
yalue OF the diamonds with which they
were ed as estimated by one of the
Kings jewelers.. Tue other Turin papers
followed suit. They told us what pain
tul Impression the news OF the robbery
had made upon the King and Queen. how
SignOr Depretis had telegraphed at once
from CoatreXeYile, how the Project,
Signor CAsalis, had returned Immediately
TO Turin, and how the Duke d'AOsta had
gone 10 the palace to see ''the ruin of so
much treasure"
What may be more easily understood,
considering the strangely remarkable
reticence Of officials concerning matters
on which the public ought 10 be informed
exactly and at once, il that the Turin pa
pers were unable 20 obtain any exact in
formation regarding the extent of the
robbery. In fact the GG@stt1 del P0Dol0
now writes as follows: 1.-The reports, the
comments, the establishment regarding
the robbery from the Kings cabinet of
medals increase day by day, with modl-
ficatiOns in different forms. That which
yesterday appeared TO be the truth is to-
day found TO be only true in part. Thus
the first reports as to the extent Of the
robbery, which gave place the day
before yesterday 10 others Of "A more
serious and alarming character, are now
again affirmed TO be true, and according
to some the Kings precious cabinet Of
medals has not suffered the serious loss
and ruin announced" Thus writes the
paper " bich gave in explicit detail the
appalling list of the many valuable OBJ
Jects stolen. SlgnOr Valfre, director Of
the service connected with the armory,
writes a somewhat indignant letter TO the
Gdeetta tel Pop0io, denying the arrest Of
the custodian. and stating that none Of
those employed there can he suspected.
much less imprisoned. The Gdeetta as
serts, however, that one Simonlni, en-
ployed In the palace, and who, II not ac-
tuallY attached 10 the armOry, had access
TO IL, and was at times In charge of the
kew has been arreated