The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
A NOTABLE ~cRAcksMAN.

One Leaf Frosa the Memoars os Btlly Per
ter. hank Bsrglsr.
The A~nglo-Saxon race produces all the
eminent burglars, NJ the New York
Epeniag San. The daring OF American
b~urQlars and of their bretheren i'm the
allied profession of train-robbing has q
worldwide fame. En~glishmen, in their
slow, conservative way, show but little
less ability, though perhaps less b~rilliancy.
whenever on the continent mail bags are
stolen, banks or great jewelers. robbed,
EnRlishmen do the work. The famous
robbery of French mails, which took place
about n year ago, was q joint effort of
EnRlishmen and Americans.
In many cases these artists are Anglo
Americans. Every now and then a theft,
usually successful, is made of postal pack
chants of Hatton Garden. London. and
the diamond cutters OF Amsterdam.
Dutchlnen are losers by the theft, and
but EngIishmen carry out the c%ifectuai
mart Of the work. The conclusion Ia he
drawn from all this is that only members
Of the great, world-envelopinx Anglo
Saxon race possess the rcsourceful cour-
age required i'm this method of gaining
wealth.
Probably the most perfect type OF the
modern burglar is Billy Porter, who has
been engaged in b~ank-robbing i'm every
other names of course. His American
record Is too well known to need repeat
ing il. He made a very interesting APP
vNatu Us
ever, about which pc pie may not have
heard so much. Billy and an accomplish
entered the premises of IA rich jeweler at
Munich, and carefully secured all the
stones and jewels of unusual size and
value. What they took was worth 3d.
90 marks at . The lowest esti-
mate. Entrance to the jewelers. prem
ises was effected i'm n most ingenious
manner and the thoughtful burglars left
ropes, displaced flooring. etc., just IA they
used them, so as to provide AN Invaluable
object-lcsson for any of the German youth
who might wish to emulate them. Then
they calmly travelled back To England i'm
iirst-class carriages and bsrths. The Eng
lish detectives succeeded in tracing TEEN
and found Porter living with his wife,
baby and mother-in-law in n nice house
i'm a quiet suburb of London. They found
the booty there. too. Porter aud his ac-
complete were accordingly taken To the
Bow street police. court and their eNtradi-
ton to Germany demanded.
Porter il n typical gentleman burglar OF
melotlrama, only "a little less fiash.. He
came into court dressed i'm n black cut
away coat, trousers of dark material.
patent leather boots. and "a dark red scarf.
fully trimmed mustaclle. He carried "A
silk hat i'm his right hand and IA pair of
gloves i'm his left. Although he was re-
ps,atedly remandcd from week to week,
and passed the intervals in prison, he
always came into court with the hat and
gloves. He is short, rosy faced. and of
medium height. and hc looked like an
everyday middle-class Engiishman.
He answered questions i'm a quiet, nm
concerned manner. never growing angry
or excited. When the various implements
of burglary were held up to view he smiled
weetly.
The case ended i'm Porter's discharge
because lac, was "a British subject, and the
British government does not extraditc its
own subjects for burglary. Porter was
stock which WAS luCky for him.