Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-03-28

a0W THEY assD . BANK.
The Scene Of Thzz1ling Tals Laia in
Baltinsre.
The New York Recorder from
time to time publishes thrilling
double-barreled sales of bank rob-
berries. They are double-barreled
IN the sense that the story OF the
chief crook is toll i weIl As thar
Of the leading detective CONNECTED
'rith The eass e 80 lold sim
ply as stori<s and not as historical
verities. A late one Will be Of spe-
cial interest to Baltimore because
the scene of the robbery is laid in
that city. Such a robbery never
occurred there, of course, but that
doesen't affect the story. Bob Ri
ley is the leader of the robbers and
this is his story:
"There was a lot of smart jiggers
in the old Baltimore Savings Bank
job. Where can you pick up any
better people than Curley Hennes-
sy, Pete Below, Cad Simonson and
Larry Fenner? They were a gang
of bank wreckers for fair, and yet
we all monkeyed around the old
bank in Baltimore off and on for
nearly two years before the pipe
began to show a blue flame. There
was common report in Baltimore
that the bank carried right along
from day to day at least 81, 10000
in cash and securities, and that's
enough Doodle for a good crook to
spend half life on.
"We hired a house in pretty
fair part of the town and lived qui-
etly. Our only business was to
study the habits of the bank officers
and clerks. Well, we went over
the ground with the greatest care,
and found tina. every duck in the
bank was as straight as a string,
from the president down to the Of
flee boy. Thus much care had to
be taken, and an effort made to
make a. CONNECTION with the vault
from inside information, for the
reason that the bank was on the
most public street in the town, and
was as carefully watched as the
bank note plates in the Treasury
Department.
"Then it was that my old idea
factory hit her up to the queens
taste, and laid down a plan that
was worth trying, and, if it did not
go, no one would be hurt or any
the wiser. | had noticed during
the hours | had watched the bank
that there was usually just about
half an hour, say between and
$50 O'Clock in the afternoon when
the bank was without a keeper.
Two watchmen took charge at 6
O'Clock in the evening, and the
outer doors were locked by clerk
between and $50 o'clock, as he
left for home. This was just one
of those little oversights that leads
fancied security to give an opportu-
nifty to thieves.
"The bank vault was secured by
a combination lock. 1t was easy
enough to get inside the bank, but
hal an hour was not time enough
to click the combination, and using
blowpipe was out of the question.
The watchmen had system of sig
nails which they turned off to some
central office, presumably police
headquarters, twice an hour, and
there was no way to get at the sig
nails. The two watchmen were too
honest to live on this earth. The
only way that was open was to get
at the combination, which was
locked in the brain of a rather light
headed young cashier. He was
relative of the president, and, though
he was honest, he was dead struck
on himself. How could the COM
bination be obtained
\ HANDSOME AND CLEVER WOMAN.
"One way suggested itself to ME
as being worth trying. 1t was to
wiring it from him by deceit. |
sent for Marie Palmer. the wife of
June Palmer, who was doing a
stretch in the Weathersfeld Peni-
tentiary, and when ! let her know
that there was big bank roll in it
she was willing to take hand in
the game. The scheme was care
fully built up. She took q room in
a quiet boarding house in the FASH