Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-26
BRAINS NEEDED IN BURGLARY
Much Time and labor Expended whom
tho nnoty Is Morth MhIln.

BRAINS NEEDED IN BURGLARY
Much Time and labor Expended whom
the booty Is worth whlc.
Few people have TN idea of the
immense amount OF labor fore
thought and scientific skill brought
to bear on big burglary. says q
writer in the New York Recorder
The first thing necessary is to find u
house containing sufficient vuluab es
to repay the trouble and risk, and
this first step alone may take many
weeks Let it be understood that
only the highest class OF export
burglars are meant; men with COM
Portable banking accounts and
houses of their own and who, after
reducing the risk to a minimum by
elaborate plans acquire enough in
one night to keep them in ahluence
and eminent respectability for more
than year, although having but
third share, as these burglarios are
invariably worked by three. 10 IL
lnstrate the wonderful resource and
lcisurely way of proceeding adopted
by burglars take case related by q
prominent detective. The principal
of the burglars in this instance, hav-
ing fixed on a certain house was UNI
able to acquire sufficient information
concerning it and the owners. This
man then went to the local butcher
supplying the house and applied for
a situation as driver of one of his
carts which delivered meat at GUS
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unquestlonable references Chow OBJ
tanned no one ever knew the man
was engaged on the round. which in
cludej the house fixed upon. In
credible as it may appear, he stayed
with his employer for over seven
months, and gave the utmost salts
faction; his only failing being
weakness for chatting with the ser
wants. Five days after his resigna-
tion u gigantic burglary was effected
ut the house selected, and property
valued at over $4,000 was stolen
The thieves had smoked several
cigars and drank bottle OF port so
that they were in no hurry, and to
crown all the booty was conveyed to
It's destination in the owners pony
phaeton, which was duly returned
the same night, but no real clew was
Afforded, and the burglars were never
captured.
On another occasion II chamber
maid was escorted out, with view
te matrimony (and burglary, for
two months before the event came
off. A conveyance is always at hand,
and generally of stylish appearance,
in fact on one occasion brougham
was used which the passers-by, and
even the policeman n the beat i'm
agined was the pr property of one of
the residents close by. As regards
tools, ve,y few are necessary, owing
to the skill and ingenuity Of the
operator. With Il jimmy, spreader,
drill few pieces of strong bent
wire and little gunpowder, the ex-
pert burglar can make his way any
where. To these are sometimes
added set OF "stumblcrs. These
are leng this of fine steel wire, with
pointed stakes about foot long at
tached to each end, and half dozen
Of these make but little bulk These
stumblers are fixed on the lawn or
paths about the house in such way
that the wires are raised about six
r inches from the ground, and prove
a such u success IN case of pursuit that
the burglars are compelled to hang
;, pieces OF white paper from the wires
d, In order to escape their own traps,
as they always run over them.