Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-04-06
EXPERIMENTAL BURGLARY.
A Sewer man Enters the Bank OF
England at Pleasure.
DETECTIVES LAUGHED At
The Secret Pointed Out to the Astounded
Directors-UntoId Wealth Ex-
posed to Thieves.

Not long ago the Directors of the Bank
of England were much perplexed ana
not q little amused when the Secretary
read to them, at their usual sitting, the
following ill.spelt and somewhat curious
letter:
Two Gentle min Of Bank England: 700
think VOW is all safe hand your Bank Is scare,
bI n knows buttur. bin hinside tne BANK
t. ee last mite hand you nose MUM aoowt w,
il, But am not theafe, so hin geo WI ine st
tweiT Q mite lie IL plain ort to yeow, let o1ly
iSor come alown, and say nuffi to nobody.
Jon smif.
The letter being duly read, was, as
might be expected, the topic of CONVEX
sation for some little time. Some were
for paying no attention to it. Others
thought that under the apparently ig-
norantIy written letter deeper mystery
was hidden; but all agreed that the
safest way was to put the letter with
proper instructions into the hands OF the
detectives. The detectives looked grave.
There was plot at work, they saw; and
with their usual penetration they at
once penetrated the deepest depths of
the iniqpity.
The Treasure Room.
There is a very large room under
ground, wnere the huge wealth of the
bank is Representations and millions
of English sovereigns, bars Of gold, and
hundredweights OF silver, with myriads
of notes. The detectives, of course,
knew that this room must be the place
which the writer of the letter designated
as the ''gret squar ROM" 1t is full Of
treasure. The floor is of solid stone
pavement, and its walls roofs and doors
are of wrought iron and steel. All the
night long detectives were secreted in
the room, but they saw nothing and
heard nothing, with the exception that
some said they heard about one or two
O'Clock strange noise they could not
account for. The next night was the
same, and the next, and the next; and
when the board day of the bank came
around the whole OF the Bank Directors
would have treated the affair as an idle
attempt to frighten them had not their
attention been more strongly called to
the subject by the following incident:
An Experimental Burglary.
Akeavy chest had been forwarded,
addressed to the Directors of the Bank
of England" The chest was, of course,
oIered before them at once--such a
lLing being very unusual and found TO
contain a large packet of most valua.
bic papers and securities. which had
been safely deposited in the vault.
With them was the following letter:
To the Directors Of the Bunk Of England
GKNTLEAEN-My husband, who Is an honest
man, wrote 10 you last week and told you
thai ne b ad found a way which he believes
is only known TO himsef-of getting into
your strong room, and offered II You would
meet him there at night To explain the Whole
matter. He has never taken anything from
that room except the inclosed box. Iou set
detectives upon him, and he took the box TO
show on that he could go there, whoever
might be on watch. IL he chose He gives you
another chance. Let "A few gentlemen be in
the room alone. guard the door and make
everything secure, and my husband will
meet you at midnight.
Yours respectfully,
Mrs ELLEN SMITH.