The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-24
Burglars.

burglars.
care professional criminals often
good workmen with toolsp ?"
"You can hardly call them fine
workmen. Nor are they generally
very strong mon. Almost all the hard
labor they get Is when they are sent to
prison at hard labor. There are GER
tain burglars, however, who arc sharp
enough to open almost any safe. In
point Of fact there is no such thing as
making safe which bur glar cannot
open. They have an apparatus which
will rip out the whole front of any safe
that can be made. 1t consists of all up
right, which Is screwed Into the floor,
and on this they get leverage with Il
lever which has an edge as sharp as a
razor and will 60 into the minutest
crack. That machine will tear out the
whole front of a colossal safe. A case
was tried In England some time ago.
A man sued safe maker for selling
him All alleged burglar proof safe which
was afterward robbed. The safe
maker proved In court that no safe
could be made which could not be pried
open.
"What time do thieves generally Sc
lect to rob a bank ?'
"rhey generally want all the time
they can get, as it is long job to drill
through thick steel doors. Thieves
generally commence Saturday night, so
they can have all night and next day,
and the following night to work in.
They hardly ever go at a safe until
their stool pigeons have carefully piped
all the people on watch for weeks and
weeks, and know their habits, when
they visit the bank. Not long ago, a
bank in Brooklyn, near the ferry, was
marked for robbery, land the thieves got
IN the bank Saturday night and were
at work there Sunday, when ono of tho
bank men unlocked the bank door. He
didn't see the thieves, nor even suspect
their existence. He was going to
church, however, that morning, and
when he left the bank, walked very
rapidly in the direction of the station
house. Thereupon the crow or the
accomplices of the thieves outside gave
thom the signal Of danger, and they
dropped their tools, and went out of
the bank In haste. On Monday morn
ng. there was seen all their apparatus
and they were just on the point of get
ting In at the money when frightened
off.
"Do burglars ever save their money ?"
"Occasionally you find one that is
very frugal, temperate and thrifty; 1t
Is exceptional however. Mike Shen-
burn, whom l regard as the biggest
burglar In this country, is said to be
living snugly in Switzerland on the
money he derived from robbing the
Ocean Bank more than ten years ago.
Jimmy Hope Is in Canada. He proba-
bly, has not much money, because his
son is scapegrace who cleans him out.
Burglars generally marry fast women I;
They have no opportunity to address a
lady of respectabiltty, and often have
to take woman Of the town."
"Do the detectives generally keep
faith with each other2"
Ahat uopcLNS OIL IHe men. know
some detectives who are the EQUALS in
honor and fidelity of any man in the
world. There are others Of considera-
BILE reputation who are habitual in
triguers. There was once in the Gen.
trail Office detective of considerable
newspaper notoriety, but extremely
| soft. he thought his bosom friend was
another detective now retired. The
latter found that tho Police Commits
sioners were about to promote the other
man to his place in the force, and retire
himself into the patrol or common po-
lice body. Thereupon the man had an
accomp]ice take the soft officer to a ho-
tel near the police quarters and fill him
up with lush. (DrInk.) While he
was there Intoxicated, rare thing for
that man, the dishonest officer and false
friend sent Police Commissioner
around to the tavern to see the drunk
en- detective. ThereIpon the latter
was degraded, and to this day docs not
know that his supposed friend sold him
out.
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