Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-21
NOTED BANK ROBBERIES.
THE FRANKS OF BURGLARS AND HEAVY RE
PRIsALs THEREFROM.

NOTED BANK ROBBERIES.
THE FRANKS OF BURGLARS AND HEAVY RE
PRIsALs THEREFRoM.
The recent robbing Of the Manhattan
Savings Bank, in open daylight, recalls mum
Der of famous burglaries, which are collatet
as follows by the Chicago Times:
In 1870, man dressed in the uniform Of {
police officer went into the Kensington Bank
of Philadelphia, and said to the cashier
II am Lieutenant -, Of - precinct
There is plan on foot to rob your bank to
night. l want you to have your watchmar
here, and will have my men to assist. d.
not cay word, and by tomorrow the game
will be bagged." The cashier extended his
hand and thanked the officer and left all il
his charge. The night came, and the Lieu
tenant and his men were admitted into the
bank. There was parley and three of the
officers and one watchman of the bank were
detailed to take walk to shadow some of the
men outside. The watchman was sent back
after certain time had elapsed, and when be
returned he found his partner handcufed and
tied, and the vaults opened and $500,000 in
negotiable paper and money gone. When
the cashier came around, be found there had
been a robbery, and then he suddenly remem
bered that he didn't know the Lieutenant
didn't even know his name. The trick was
very clever, and Kensington Bank never re-
covered dollar.
In 1872, three men went to the owner OF
the Third National Bank in Baltimore, and
hired room adjoining the bank. "Gentle-
men," inquired one of the officers, "wbat are
you going to do with it ?" ave are specula-
ting now" they said, "and if we succeed in
our business, we think of opening bank
The papers were made out, the rent paid, and
business commenced. In two week they did
open bank-the Third National Bank next
door-by burrowing under the vault. They
left the country with 100000, not dollar
of which came back. 'h .
The vault of The Ocean Bank, Of New
York, was opened by one man-Ma1imilian
Shinburn, and robbed of $4,000. He fire.
quented the bank until his acute ears learned
by the peculiar click of the combination, pre-
cisely how to work it. 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 as one of the nobility.
About eighteen years ago, several men
hired room under the Boylston Bank, open.
ed business as the trio did at Baltimore, and
dug up into the vault at their leisure. The
amount which they dug out was $780,
900. The men who did the work we're Adam
Worth, Ike Mash, alias "Big Ike," Charlie
Bullard, alias "Piano,' and Bob Cochran.
They got away to Europe with $60O,OOO OF
negotiable paper. Worth is living the life Of
prince over the water still. Marsh came
back, cracked another bank, was "pinched'
by the Pinkerton agency, and is now serving
out seventeen years in the Philadel phia peni,
Tertiary. Bullard went to Paris with bis
portion of the "swag," and opened a grand
boufFet at No Rae Scribe, said to have been
simply magnificent He remained in the city
during the siege, and might have been there
yet, had not a Chicago detective who hap.
pened to 60 over there, "got on to him."
The Paris police were notified Of bis charac,
ter, and in shorc time they detected him in
piece of crooked work, for which he fled the
place. He came back to America, was ar
rested, and about ten days ago escaped from
the Charlestown, Massachusetts, prison.
Cochran alone tried to be straight He went
to Canada, bought farm, and in about six
months the turn being called upon him by
the Hidden Hand" he passed in his checks.
The Beneficial Saving Fund, Of Philadel.
phia, was robbed of $1,6O0,000 few years
ago, by "holding up" the cashier, who gave the
combination. Every dollar of the amount
was recovered by negotiation, and the cracks
men retired on competency.
The Northumberland vaults gave up their
treasures on account of visit which masked
men made to the cashiers residence, where
he kindly handed over the combination, and
went to the bank with them, because he
couldn't help him self.
The First National Bank of Wilmington,
Delaware, was entered, and an attempt to rob
it was precisely the same as that worked on
the Manhattan recently. The cracksmen
went into the Janitor's room and gagged
him and bis family. An old niger wo-
man crawled under the bed, but forgot to
pull her heels in after her. One of the men
dragged her out. A door chanced to be left
open, and through it she sped like a creased
arrow. She Was chased almost to the police
station, and her fiji ght saved the institution.