Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-10-22
tairs. "Dldn't / tell youG It's a.

aware of the sniff which succeeded and
implied go yes you're quite right, my
man this IL Mr, Trdmway's. You
needn't be afraid you've mistaken the
house. There isn't such another man i'm
the neighborhood as lives at No. 49, But
aloud, she proceeded, "QWito rightf
bring ii in, please" John Do you
wish the man to leave it in the passage ?"
Snflf being interprcted) cor would
like Il taken into the drawing-roonl, or
placed ON the dressing table of the spare
pfecer" - ~ % = o. 4
l thought it better to go down stairs.
go, leaye it in hepassSge," said.y SNo
one will kstka1its I - sI(Jl II
90 dear, no." said my wife with little
smile. "No one will steal it; that's quite
certain" l admit it was not seductive.
looking object now,
When we were alone Mrs. Trumway
asked me what intended to do with the
| safe, which was the very question had
Teen nskihg myself ever since returning
from the sale
What do | intend doing with it, my
dearg' l repeated, to gain time. "a Why
-yes--ah that is-do with itg Why,
open it, of COURSE .,r- ,.-,..-.5.-. -,
She shifted a sniff equal to two columns
of printed matter. Although my answer
was not premeditated, didn't think it al
together bad notion. Accordingly, for
| the next two or three weeks nv house be.
came the constant resort of blacksmiths,
whitesmiths, locksmiths, and people in the
engineering way, all of whom, however,
| failed utterly in the attempt to open the
unpickable, undrillable fire and thief
proof Lot 217. They fairly owned 1t
beat them. | wanted the safe opened,
| however, for the reason that, being
opened, it might become an article per
| haps useful or saleable, whereas now it.
was neither. One morning, an idea of
unusual Tbrilliancy occurred to me, and
! put on my hat, and Wfnt out to put it in
practice, | walked up to our great model
jail, and saw the governor, with whom
had previously some acquaintance l told
him 1 should feel deeply obliged if he
col1fd render me assistance, and then came
to the purpOrt of my visit
"dave you, my good sir, such a tliinga as
a good strong burglar on the establishment
that you could lend me for an hour or
twoS" And explained what I-.wanted
him for. But the governor shook his
head, and said he was sorry to disoblige
me, but it really couldn't be done, as all
their burglars were in use, and couldn't
be spared off the premises. Very good
but supposing | were to send the safe up
to the burglar to while away a few hours
ofhis leisure at cOngenial pursuit mo.
He didn't see that he could; it would be
against the rules besides which, their
burglars had become so reformed by at
tention to the ministrations of the chap
lain, that it was exceedingly doubtful If
they would be willing to return to sinful
ways, such as breaking open safes, lest It
might show worldly spirit that would
interfere with their tickets-ofleave; and
then, again, there were no burglars tools
in the Jail
S1'll tell you What though" he said,
after a BIT '"I dare say I could find you a
ticket-of-leave man who would do it.
They report themselves to us at stated in
tervals, so that we always know where to
find them. Indeed, I think j know Just
the very manS and will send him tosyou"
One evening in the twilight about
| week afterwards, our servant came in, in
some alarm, to say that two very ill,look-
ing men were at the back door, who said
they had "come to crack the ,gov'nor's
money box" They were not nice-looking
men. One of them, a great brawny rutlian,
with head and neck like a bull, and a
wisp of colOred handkerchief over a shirt
| less chest, hairy as Esau's, gave me stolid
nod when | went out.
"The boss up at the Model" he said,
I pointing with his thumb oyer his shoulder
I in the direction of the Jail, 'taslSed me If
so be as would obligc you by cracllin a
| little bit of box you've got. You see,
| gov'nor, ai'nt any tools o my own, so
I've brought a pal who's got his Lady's
| Companion with him, to do the job" in
| dicating his friend, who carried parcel
| OF tools done up in mating. | should say
| he was not a nice man to have for friend
"a spare short, cunDing little fellow, with
restless eyes a face that gave you the i'm
preston of weazeps; and thin nose,
with continual nervous twitching in the
J nostrils, like rabbits, as though he was
/ an animal always on the scent for game or
hunters, which perhaps he was. His name
was Toncy.
brought them in, and pointing out the
safe, asked if they thought they could open
it.
"Open i'll" repeated Toney, with ineffa-
BILE contempt, "why kid could open is
| with a pen -nivel& It's one of them Unim-
peachables, Bill" he said to his mate /;
you remember 'em; like what we had
| at" (some name | couldn't catcb).
"Why, l could blow it open it with an
ounce of baccer in a quarter of an hour.p
"Well, l said, 81 would give you five
shillings to open it,"
"Would you, be-garP" growled the big
man. "Our terms is 'arf suvrin'-me
and Toney-and two pots of beer, and
two ounces of baccer; and then it's fal
vor, on account of our doin' it to oblige
the boss. And we amt a-going to do it
here, un'stan'; but if you've got e'er bit
of clubhouse out at the back, where we
can be private, we'll do the job there on
the quiet"
l was obliged to accede to their terms
lindeed they were both persons would
not have had difference with for the
w0rld). So they carried the safe into the
tool house in the garden, where | supplied
them with the quantity of ale and tobacco
agreed on, and they shut themselves in
Its only a cas-. fer the alderman,
Bill" heard the little man remark as
left them. - T
| In tweptyffvp' mi inutes. by my, watch,
thefbull heaied lmap came and told hie il
was dohe:| q Not that we've been an this
time about ii though, guv'noT, for Toney
he prised it open in five minutes, as easy
as oyster, but we've been settin' and
doin' quiet pipe together.
They certainly had opened it, not by
picking the lock, as anticipated, but by
IMrehching of the back so thai the isaft
was completely destroyed. They had
drilled two holes in the back-plate, to al
low OF inserting two immensely powerful
steel crowbars in such position that the
leverage of the two bars would tell one
SgPinst the other, and wfen0hF out tile in.
tetmediatV piece. Ffnn the appearance
OF the holes and the smell in the out house
judged the men had previously lowered
the temper of the steel back with blow,
Pipe IN the places where they intended ID
din 1-ielt disposed 10 be angry At the
destruction of the safe, and was going Il
say so, when Toney pointed out dirty
roll of papers lying inside took them
out unrolled them, and forgot my wrath
.inmediatelh) A ipfized ihleeAi Fifty
share certificates, each fon twenty pounds
in the Undeniable Security and Unlim,
lied Discount Z Banking Corporation
(Limited) s. Offices LhdI street, city.
paid OFF my two burglars with a light
heart, and returning tOthe house, l believe