The sun., 1893-02-12
BURGLARY HOLDS IFS LEAD.
The SkIil OF the Safe Crackers sStin n Little
Too Mach for the Safe Makers.
r,om tbe San ,apei,c Cbronirye

Prom The San t,anesc, 6hronit'e.
The three safc-cracking episodes following
the police and the agents Of ali the safe. man
ufacturers that there Is cleror gang OF bur-
sa sfs Ss e s hsys sss
that arrest. will lie made in q few days. The
burglaries have started merchants to taking
Ing their steel vaults unxiously because all
the safes thus far toyod with have been opened
safe aking Of the ass
ts assn Dsass eshs y Of S"1
safe. You see. there are two styles OF safe
cr9ckefs. as we know them the new and tho
Ing Ing up u case. ~ The od-styie crack sman used
powder, He fIfst drilled i'll h"le beside i, tho
der. The improved method is to first knock
ofl the spindle and then drive the cMombtnatlon M
hp hi cFssp Hf s1"r ye sHs
n % sas bs Ea!Fa' s pass soHx ons only ssss
have been blown open. II makes too much
noise All tho others have been touched in tho
plain as day that it was the work Of an ann
easy way OF breaking open u vault to knock OF
the combination knob. but there his knowl-
edge he Business ene Ipssa% Of @
and driving 1t in. lie thought it was necessary
10 bore in through the key,nnole. as it was key
might have worked week that way and he
couldn't have got in. The result was that he
the t'Hey EXPENSE @ Of having It opened. ''' e''
The burglars Of today are more consider,
ate than they used to be- thsy sss
lust for satisfaction. l recoIlect q singular
AFFAIR In the little place called smaEtsSille. np
into the general store to tap the safe that was
e e9ntan ia at least wSeh o.
Weighing
pounds. The rascais were afrald to blow it
fer nssss s e ar nt6 the sassn s.Ha Ess
They only cot a few hundred dollars. though.
ths @ god having been sa s. secretly sent to Marys-
years sHie o, ,Ihsd Wholesale
hSuSe % ~ h shs ey was nn nnd nd and
out Just how the Job. had been done You
know 1t is common thing for men working In
H side Of the safe. sale Well. this one was SIMPLY
covered on one side with pieces Of paper. The
OF the papers and cut into the side They
could not finish the job In one night; so they
ne nsfk ,hf
pulled out everything OF value in the safe:
When was called in to solve the problem Of
h"ie from tic Inss n Then @ Sns d ri IT, young
white dust on the floor beside The saie. the day
before the money disappeared. lie had thought
nUthln. OF II, ana the Safe crackers hnd AL
Opportunity to- do tho second nights work.
Nowadays" continued the expert 'mer-
chants do not place tha confidence which they
used 70 n stsel vaults. They go 10 the safe
large houses the safe Is simply kept to put the
books in to protect them from fire. To save
the box from mutilation by burglars they post
the combination beside the lock and label it
distinctly. In several places the notice reads:
This Is the Do not break the safe OPEN
but follow the instructions written bereon and you wiz
get in without trouble.
"One gentleman has posted this card:
sour yaluables are In the sAfe deposit, Please dont
get mad and have fun with the safe.
,"others do not lock their safes. even. They
simply shoot the bolt.
"Mhen tho building on Market street next
to the Nucleus was being constructed IL shirt
manu- facturer doing business In tho latter
structure was very much disturbed oye. the
was not at all confident that It could not be
entered. One night he had 81 300 on hand and
was ut q loss what to do with It, A bright idea
struck him. He rolled the money. which was
ban eatll the safe. Sure enough that very nlgllt
the steel vault was opened and the burglars
got away with q few dollurs In change. The
mass Of silver, was found all right under the