The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-03

were more than three persons engaged in the
removal of these valuables, as they heard many
strange voices outside. In their selections the
maraudere displayed good discernment, as they
broke open the packages, carried off all the
papers that could be turned to an account, and
left the rest. The coupon bonds of the United
States were taken, the registered left.
But in the fre-proof was something of
supreme concern to the burglars. This was
medium sized Lille burglar and fire-proof safe
This, as was well known to them, contained the
funds OF the bank. The aggregate of these was
probably unknown to them, but our reporter
learned that at the time the assault was made
upon the safe il contained, in valuables of all
descriptions, one million dollars.
They made desperate effort to get iHto this
safe, and ignoring the customary plan, which
is to bore into the lock and pick the combina-
tion, they went at it with sledges and wedges
In the interstices betweenIthe door and the jamb
they inserted the fine-pointed wedges. These
were hammered heavily. The strain was terri
ble The entire righthand jamb great piece of
brittle iron, was forced off. Great seams opened
in the top of the safe, and along the left side,
but yet the door did not bulge, for the steel
bolts from its four edges protruded far into the
casing, and though one jamb might be forced
off, there were the others to prevent the door
from coming out. Although this safe was sadly
worried, as its present appearance indicates, it
withstood the strain, and the burglars had to
give it up as "bad job" In doing all that we
have said they were engaged from half-past z
o'clock last night until o'clock this morning;
and at this latter hour, according to the judg-
ment of the watchmen, who all the while lay
uncomfortably gagged on the floor, they left.
When the burglars left, they unpityingly left
our friends the private watchmen to keep their
PROSTATE position on the floor and it then
occurred to Messrs. Holmes and Murphy that
they could do nothing better than to lberate
themselves. This, after two hours hard labor
mainly with their teeth, they accomplished,
with the exception of their hands, since these
were firmly bound with steel manacles. With
their feet Free they did the next best thing; and
while one remained almost a helpless guard
over the scene of ruin, the other ran into the
street and sounded the alarm. 1t was not long
before genuine officers were summoned, and the
watchmen the hurried into a black
smiths shop near at hand, and which
fortunately had just been opened, where, with
the aid of cold chsel and hammer the hand
trammelled. The occurrence soon became
noised about, and quickly crowd of excited
people gathered in the vicinity of the bank, the
number augmenting every hour The officers
from their homes were hastily summoned to
look upon the wreck, and this with consterna-
tion at first indescribable, but finally to great
extent Modified upon the discovery that the
bank had lost no money, but only the special
depostors, who had, in the innocence of their
souls, left their valuables for safe keepngJ
BY 9 o'clock, women with children in their
working mechanics and laborers of every kind
and the capitalists who have their places of
business in the vicinity, and had deposits in the
bank, gathered, and were irrepressibe in their
opportunities to know if they had lost anything;
and to the repeated protestation of "No," tue
officers OF the institution were forced to placard
on its doors this written announcements