Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-11-07
THE EVENING STAR.
THURSDAY. .Nove.nher =, ISIS.
Remark able Bank RoSbcric..

Philadelphia and said 10 the cashier: II am
LII ale9 .oei OF precinct. There's plan
10 nave your watChman here and will have
~! men TO assist. DO not say word and by
, oalh:nr ahs game WIN be bagged.' The
cashier extended his hand and thanked the
officer, and left all in his charge The night
came ana the lieutenant and his men were ad-
united 10 the bank. There was a barley. and
tn!ee or the OfflcerS and one watchinan of the
bank were detailed to take walk 10 shadow
81 NE OF the men outside. The watebnlap was
sent back after certain time had elapsed, ana
when he retained he found his partner hand
cufied and tied the vaults open and 500. 600 In
Negotiable paper and money gone When the
cashier came around he found out that there
had been robbery, and then he suddenly re
membered that he didn't know the lieutenant
didn't even know his name. The Kensington
Bank reyer recovered q dollar.
In 1879 three men went TO the owner of the
Third National Bank OF baltimore. and hired a
room adjoining the bank. g Gentlemen" in
q'lired one OF the bank Officers, what are you
going to do with it,"
I'VE 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 a banS-the Third National Bank,
next door-by burrowing under the vault They
left tie country with 1909. not Il dollar OF
which came back.
The vault OF the Ocean Bank of New York was
opened by one man. Macmillan Shinburn, and
robbed OF S11,0eo. He freQucntcd the bank
until his acute ears learned by the peculiar
II. And he made il, after listening for months.
tie very !ir>t time. He fed 20 Belgium, where
he purchased a title, and is now living there as
one of the nobility.
About eight years ago several men hired a
room under the Boyleston Bank of Boston.
opened business as the trio did in Baltimore. and
dug into the vault at their leisure The amount
which they dug o1lt was S>,n. 0Va. The men who
did this work We're Adam Worth Ike, Marsh
alias Big Ike" Charlie Billiard. alias Piano. y
and Bob Cochran They got AWAY to Europe
with Sfo0,0oo OF negotiable paper Worth Il
living the lite of a prince over The water still
Marsh came back. cracked another bank, was
caught. and Il now serving out seventeen years
in Philadelphia. Bullard Went 10 Paris with
his portion and opened bOuifet at Rue
Scribe. said To have been simply magnificent
He remained in the city during the siege and
might have been there yet had moi a Chicago
detective. who happened over there. spotted
lflm. The Paris police We're notified of his
character, and IN short time they detected
him in piece III crooked Work. for which he
lied the place. He 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 Savings Fund OF Philadelphia
was robbed OF 81 ,G00000 few years ago by
forcing the cashier to give the combinat ion
Every dollar OF the amount was recovered by
negotiation. and the craftsman retired on a
competency.
The northumberland vaults gave up their
treasures on account of a visit which masked
men made to the cashiers residence, where he
kindly handed over the combination. and went
10 the bank with them. because he couldn't help
himself.
The First National Bank of Wilmington. Del
aware, was entered. and the attempt to rob ii
was precisely the same as that worked on the
Manhattan on last Sunday morning The
crackSmen went into the jantorS room and
gagged him and his family. An old coiored
woman crawled under the bed, but one OF the
men dragged her out. A door CHANGED to b.
left open. and through il she managed to escape
She was chased almost to the police station,
and her flight saved the institution.
IL was reserved for the cashier OF the Cham
belSburg tPal bank TO be bulldozed by two Chi
cago men, Louis Claremont, the expert. and
Ahner Wicks, his brother-n-law. Claremont
had the vaults opened for him. took the trea-
sure, assisted by WickS. got away. was can
tured and taken back and convicted. All of the
money was recovered.
and papers taken by these experts are raised"
and passed, or sold TO ''wild-cat" SPECTATORS
This. however. is not so common now aS il has
been. So few have been able To do IL success
fully that ii has been almost abandoned.
There is an old man who is now serving out
his time i'm the Eastern penitentiary al Phila-
dephia. named Jack Canter. who was the most
remarkable man in this respect that ever lived.
But he failed at last. He was detected In rails
ing bonds which he had sold to wildcat" in
surance company. He was sent to Sing Sing.
and he was there found to be such valuable.
accountant that he was made bookkeeper.
When commitment was made he learned the
circumstances, and if there was any money
back OF the party he would say TO the convict
''lou give me so much and I'll shorten up on
your time"
1t. was done in a number of instances. and
when the prison inspectors detected him they
discovered that he had changed the commit
mentS and the record so nicely that the differ
ence could not be made evident He wrote
poem while in Sing Sing, in which he causes
one of the stones OF his cell TO speak his history
The production aboundS with passages which
show him to he Il man of more than ordinary
ability. The following extracts is taken from
the poem. The stone is telling the story OF an
incarcerated boy:
Though night advanced, and darkness stole
With midnight blackness DER the skies.
No hope had soothed his troubled soul,
No sleep had close his weeping eyes
A sudden thought his bosom thrilled
hope by memory long delayed.
His grief subdued, his passion stiled.
And on the round he knelt and prayed
And ere he could that prayer repest,
"Or echo answer from the hill"
STILL small voice. dyinely sweet,
Said, " Peace, thou troubled soul. he STILL
-IChtcago Times.