The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-03-12
How the Burglars Operate.


The details Of the Concord Bank, Adams Express and
other robberes evinee The determined persistent and
might also be saId. professional character Of the
thieves. operations There Is hardly any reason 10 doam
g.. - .--S instance, tho locality where the
- GO. -. 49, ssd, well as The habit. u
,h., nro,,,.o, ana c.soa., were duly observed Ssd
noted down as q preliminary to ~
berry.
A BURGLAR's EVIDENCE. -
curious case tried In the Court OF Queen Isth
London the l4th OF January, IN which great neree
excited by the evidence given by burglar 10 Tho
manner In which he committed OF the remark.
able robberes which has occurred In London for years
The plaintiff Mr. Walker well known Ieweer In
Cornhil and the defendants Messrs Miner son safe
Manufacturer, o. London and Liverpool aud the action
alleged warranty that one Of Miner safes
sold the plaintiff tniefproof and the burglar
Introduced witness by the plantin n show that
far from being thief proof he opened u With ease
The burglar was put upon the stand and testified that
on the night of Saturday the tth OF February 1893 he
and four others the shop and t~o Of them be-
sides himself into the houss, by the SIDE door
under the archway IN sun court IL was ten minute
past In the evening" the three Grst went into the
second noDr-the above the nOOr over the shop
and renamed there until twenty minutes 70 eight
had gone "a aughl They then went down into The
next noor sr Charles Crovsley the ono Just the
shop. they there opened thc safe "a laugh For some
hoars aftcr~as they remained quiet and DID nothing
they remained there until about twelve O'Clock at
night. nj twenty minutes past t~eNe they began
work, and anst got into the tailor shop, and were
II the whole Of Sunday morning at Eve minutes TO
three, the afternoon of Sunday, they got into NJ.
walkers shop, they nrrt got into the back shop ffum
tho talors by cutting away the ceiling and the
flooring, one Of the men went with witness into Mr.
walkers shop tai ing sundry oos cro~bnr aud other
things they had 10 20 out again. however directly for
they received signal sbai The police coming round
Afterwards they had another signal 10 20 the
shop they then tested the safe 20 SO whether they
could break open under the Disadvantages under
which We were labonng Much alghtrl Testing
b. likely 70 give way they found that held the wedge,
whereas " able " resist pressure the wedge
they found they must knee down In order
not "a be seen BY the police Who were
round evury nine minutes 4" TheT did their
duty said the witness mo blame attaches TO them
every time they ronnd I had a dcrs and Ind 70
kneel down % AVOID beng SON by the os and bad 70
rather surprised al good safe ought not 10
have yielded ~ -oon then knew that we could &C.,
the safe open. and not Ions After ve bad open dd
not shove thirty I've minutes aud Of that
several minutes should be deducted the time lot
when the police came round; at aquarsr 10 four sc
we're up IN ar Charles Cro4slsy's once washing eur
hspds-tmuch iaughtert-~e had only 10 two nstiu
se.s ,nough ". haa osnsrs WIN =. We .hoagh' one
nth easier than Miner s-troarE of laaghtefD-we
were miles away at twenty minutes 70 i've p
Where you Them . cant a.y exactly -ome-
where % The GuIIdford road You have had some
have, We have sipsrimsn,sd on Missrs ssre'
bsiorr, took seven hour before u gave Al
all, anf then tred what We call "unlswfal"
means--thst Il. tools which could In q bnr.
glsrytgrcat aughtstl another took ar hours open
two Of purchased two o. Miners fes % experiment
alice upon and succeeded upon aftsr hours
and then BY uulaxfui meahstbzt H. with tools which
could NOS BE- used Nlthplt discretion. thev made a
noise they bars which bad 30 knocked IN that
wa returning tack " oid msans, quite the
"old n-fAaghterl--,be othcr safe opsusf
10 sir hours, with the best a1rt of 'ia~fui
burglar tools = including ron bar i've feet ious
ointed several pisces b. csrngd 10 srniil
csss that The only thing which could Ofen on o.
Miners best saf the safe could not ~ opened slih
a wedge which only used fnr testing good Eafe
would send wrdse DOT bad one let remain IN and
that showed t could b. opened The wedge remained
Ms safe the IN qulsiiOuk and they then seH :
could b. opened when the wedge bold then bar 49,
pot IN " release the wedge and then another wedge
little larger 70 rrcags the wedge, tess BAR however
would not Open The safe thcy we're only usHi ~ ~
What call the alderman In ir0afs ~ aughisf thhi
sa head bar, ehrh would oi~n any safe, ihe
smaller bars wcrn called citizen fEreat laugh
ter, these SIRE used ID avui The rr1i
words a would Dot DO " ~ heard te streets tat
shout crOvbar. daughter IN thF case the " dfoa
only went IN two ~ three times the barr eight
times, Ia other inaianccs the alderman" vas rHef
which rae able 70 opsn any safe made, unlrs hrr ~
szh alteration bot 10 us saie TIE uldcruan 80
no, used was npt required While ~ voftof ote ~
he 'inaies" VS. sunF up s'airv n ~ chsrie CsoY
armchair ~ give SIGNALS b. aarbg cgffeip9uflng uh
the two men outside. 10 - feithcf NJ NAtnf
or any u hs people iafk. iho other gave mite