Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — MONKS ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY. [ARTICLE]

MONKS ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY.

The church of the Chudov monastery, at Moscow, which is within the walls of the Kremlin, was recently robbed of avast amount of plate, money and gems. The plate had just been used in the ceremonies attendant upon the reception of the czar and had not been returned to the vaults. The property and money taken amounted in value to between 2.500,000 and 3,000,000 roubles. Thursday all the monks belonging to the monastery were , arrested. A search of the cells occupied by the monks revealed that they had perpetrated the robbery.