The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-18
EMPoR1A NATIONAL BANK.
An Entirely Burglar-PrOOf sett OF on
GERS


GERS.
1t well known that the scientific skill
Of the safe and lock makers has finally tr1.
umphed over the utmost ingenuity and
keenest tools OF the burglars, and that a
first class safe is absolutely burglar proof
during the limited time in which burglars
can work. They may pick aAd bore, and
hammer and pry, and blast, an entire
night. and then fail to open one Of these
safes. So they have resorted to the more
desperate but successful method Of cap
turing the bank officers and forcing them
on pain Of torture or death, to reveal the
combinations OF the loek-and presto! the
robbery is easily and quickly accomplish
ed. The most recent exploit Of this kind
is the case OF the Northampton, Mass,
bank, reported in our last weeks tele-
grams. The burglars went to the cash
ier's residence, captured, bound and
gagged the whole family Of seven persons,
and forced the cashier to reveal his Sc
cret, and robbed the bank OF S1,OOO, 600,
and have not been heard from since. 1t
has got to be 30 that no bank officer is
really safe, or his family free from con-
slant anxiety, for they know not at what
hour the dark lantern fraternity may
pounee upon them.
The Emporia National Bank officers,
however, cannot be made to subserve the
use Of burglars. Last week they had
sHalI's Safe and Lock Co.'s Patent Infalli-
BILE Double Chronometrie Attachment
added to the lock Of their burglar proof
safe. The expense was $500.
This valuable invention is the last and
greatest triumph OF the lock makers, and
who ever originated it is public bene-
factor. It has been thoroughly tested and
found to operate with unfailIng accuracy.
1t is fastened upon the inside Of the safe
door, and there is no way Of getting at or
disturbing IL. It is a very neat and hand
some piece of mechanism, double, so that
il one fails to work, the other will take its
place. 1t has q watcn-like face, with
hours marked on 1t from 20 4S. 1t so at
fects the combination lock to which 1t is
attached, that between any given hours
that lock cannot be moved even by those
who know the combinations, and the safe
therefore cannot be unlocked. For in
stance, IL the Emporia bank officers wish
to make their safe "unopenable," from 8
p. m. to 8 a. m, they set the chronometer
attachment accordingly. At any time up
to p. m, they can unlock the safe as usu-
al, but promptly at that hour the chronom
eter attachment throws the lock scout Of
gear 80 to speak, and keeps it "out Of
gear'' until 8 the next morning. At that
hour 1t 10 thrown "Into gear,' so that the
lock can be operated and the door opened
by those who know the combinations. But
in the interval Of 9 p. m. to a. m. even
the bank officers are as powerless as any
one else to operate the lock or get into the
safe. AS before remarked, the chroAom-
eter range is 4S hours, and it may be set
to do its work between any hours up to
that number. Had the Northampton
bank been provided with this attachment
TO its lock the burglars couldn't have been
aided in the least by compelling the CASH
Ter to reveal the combinations. The lock
would have been immoVable until at
such an hour in the morning that burg.
larry was impossible. $500 would have
saved $1,OOO,OOO.