The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-08
nEnAnKApLE BANK RopBERIEs.
A Former Rank I.obbsr Wow European
NoI,Icnan-A ConylcI'g Poetry.

q police OllCuf. Neup. INV thc hSHoIHeN'"
Bankof Philadelphia and, said tothe cash
icr:tI mn Lieutenant of-preclnct.
There's plan on foot to rob your bank
tonight. Iwant you to have your watch |
man here, and will have my men to as
sist. DO not say u word, and by to-mor.
row the game WILDE basgcd." The cash
ier- extended his. hand and thanked the
officer, and left all in his charge. The
night came, and the Lieutenant, with his
men, were admitted to the bank. There
was parley, and three Of the officers and
one Waterman Of the bank were detailed
to take Il walk to shadow some OF the men
outside. The watchnanwa sent backai
ter certain time had elapsed, and when
no returned he found his partner hand
cuffed and tied, and the vaults open, and
$500 600 in negotiable paper and money
gone. When the cashier came around he
found out that there had been q robbery,
and then he suddenly remembered that he
didn'tknow the Licutcnant-didn't even
know his name. TIE Kensington Bank
never recovered u dollar
In 1872 three men went to the owner OF
the Third National Bankin Baltimore and
hired u room adjoining the bank. Gen
tlemcn," inquired one OF the bank officers,
"what are you going TO dowithit?"
"Wo are Spectators now" they said,
"and il we succeed in our business we
think OF opening bank" The papers
were made out, the rent paid, and business
commenced. In two weeks they did open
bank-the Third National Bank, next
door-by burrowing underthe vault. They
left the country with 100000, not q dollar
OF which came back.
The vault of the Ocean Bank Of New
York was opened By one man-MaXimiliGn
Shinburn-and robbed Of S70O,OtN. lie
Ifreuucuted the bank until his acute ears
learned by hcpeculiar click OF the compl'
nation precisely how to work 1t. And he
made it, after listening for months, the
very first time. He fled to Belgium, where
he purchased title, and is now living
there us one OF the nobility.
About eight years ago several men hired
Il room under the Boyleston Bank OF l'os-
ton, opened business rs the trio did in
Baltimore, and duginto the vault ut their
leisure. The amount which they dug out
was SS5O.0O0 The men who did this
work we're Adam Worth, Ike Marsh, aiias
"Big Ike" Charlie Bullarl, alias, "PianO,"
and Bob Cochran. They got away to
Europe with $500, 900 Of negotiable paper
Worth is living the life Of n prince over
the water still Marsh came back, cracked
another bank, was caught, and is now
serving out seventeen years in phiINde!-
phia. Billiard went to Paris with his por-
lion and opened buffet at . Rue Scribe,
said to have been simply magnificent. He
remained in the city during the siege, and
might have been there yet had not u Chi
cago detective, who happened over there,
spotted him. The Paris police were notiii-
cd OF his character, and in u short time
they detected him in piece OF crooked
work, for which lie fed the place. lie
came back to America, was arrested, and
about ten days ago he escaped from the
Charlestown, Mass, prison. Cochran
alone tried to be straight, He went to
Canada, bought farm, and!in about six
months died there.
The Beneficial Saving Fund Of Phila-
dclphia was robbed OF 81 100000 few
wears AGO, by forcing the cashier to give
IUt NpIlhA VI w
amount was recovered by negotiation, and
the cracksman retired on competency.
The Northumberland vaults gave, up
their treasures on account OF a visit which
masked men made TO tho cashiers resid-
cnce, where he kindly handed over the
combination, and went to the bank with
them, because he couldn't help himself.
The First National Bank of Wilmington,
Delaware, was entered, and the attempt to
rob it was precisely tho same as that
worked on the Manhattan on last sun
day morning. The cracksmen went into
the janitor's room and gagged him and his
family. An obi colored women cNwled
under the bed, but one OF the men drag
ged her ont. Adoor CHANGED to leftbeOpen
and through it she managed to escape.
She was chased almost to the poliCCst
and her fight saved the institution.
II was reserved for the Cashier OF the
Chambersburg PA Bank 10 be bulldozed
BY two Chicago men, Louis ClaremOnt,
the expert, and Abner WiCks, his brother.
in-law. ClaremOnt hNd the vaults opened
for him, took the treasure, assisted by
Wicks, got away, was captured and taken
back and convicted. All OF the money
was recovered.
1t sometimes happens that many OF the
bonds and papers taken by these experts
are raised and passed, or sold TO wild
cat" spectators. This, however, is not so
common now us it has been. SO few have
been able to do it successfully that it has
been almost abandoned.
There is m old man WHO'S now serving
out his time in the Eastern Penitcntiary NJ
Philadelphia, named Jack Canter, who was
the most remarkable man in this respect
that ever lived. But he failed at last. He
was detected in rnising bonds which he
had sold toa wildcat" insurance compa-
ny. lie was sent to Sing Sing, and he was
there found to be such valuable account
ant that he was made bookkecpcr. When
a commitment was made he learned the
circumstances and II there was any money
back OF the party he would say to the con-
vict, "You give me so much and I'll short
en- up on your time"
II was done in number OF instances,
and when the prison inspectors detected
him they discovered that he had changed
the commitments and the record so nicely
that the difference could not be made
evident. lie wrote poem while in Sing
Sing, in which he caused one Of tho stones
OF his cell to speak its history. The pro.
luCtion abounds with passages which show
him to be man OF more than ordinary
ability. The following extract is taken
from the poem. The stone Is telling the
story OF IN incarceratcd boy!
Though night advanced and dRrknc,. stole
With midnight bIackne's DER the ;kIc.,
No hope had SOolhel his troubled soul,
No sleep had closed his weeping eyes
4 sudden thought his bosom thrilled,
A hope by memory lsnH delayed
Ills grief Subducl, his passion StIlCt