The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-25

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1 mite into the crack. and dislOcated the time
| lock II the fellow had followed the govern
| Ihent closely he could have captured SIG OO0
out ne either had not committed the de-
80 80 % the process 10 memory with suffi-
/ Ceht care or was scared away for al
| though he blew a hole clear through tho
uOoI- ne LETT without unscrewing the door
| VI taxing the cash. The bank is on a
prominent corner, in a thickly populated
] part OF the city from the front and side
an YET the safe was practically DESTROYED
| without attracting any attention. and
nothing was known of the atternnt uDtiI
ene Janitor opened the bank the following
| morning. -'-s
| me burglar who blew open the safe in
| the Franklin Grove PENN Bank cot bet-
| eei Iesults. The safe was exactly like one
| USED by the government exDerrs in tbeir
experiments. Partly BY rippinp OF ~
plates with cold chisels and partly nv the
vs. oi Iorelte powder. the experts blew
| open the safe in little less than two hours
| after describing in detail how they did il
tlle experts appended to the description a
IeceIP. Ior quickly converting a dynamite
| eai tIluge INTO -glycerine. 1t is A re-
eelpt which no bank burglar should fstI
70 carry IN his vest pocket For this rea-
it. u0es not puolish
-, re burglar who blew open the safe in
ne rankin Grove Bank may NOT have
| DeTuSal n no
| sONeInhent book, but otherwise he was a
very ingenious craftsman. First he re-
| iONeu the spindle and knocked off the
| !ock. Ihen he poured nitro-glycerine into
me JOINT at the top of the safe door. and
| pew on the door instantaneously. Next
| ne attacked the inner door with the same
| explosive He worked even quicker than
| the bank experts, for he blew the safe to
pieces IN an hour and a half and walked
OH with from S200 900 to $4,000 In an adj
Joining building, not more than three feet
from the wall of the vault, a whole family
sIurnoered, undisturbed during the night
Of the burglary.
| The methods of the government exnerts
as described by them, were successfully
| Followed in the case of the demolition of
| the safe in the First National Bank at
| Liberty, Mo, but the burglar was fright
ened and stopped only long enough tO
| grab 5000. He thoughtlessly left $4,000 in
the safe. He drilled hole near the COM
| bination dial and punched off the lock. He
then introduced nitro-glycerine after the
| plan Of the government experts, into the
crack at the top of the outer safe door, and
| then leisurely blew off the door in sec
] lions. He was just attaching time fuse
to the inner door when alarmed. A family
| slept in a house not more than thirty feet
| from the bank vault.
| Eighty-seVen safe burglaries were re-
| ported during the month of April, this
year.
Amng them were twenty postoffice safe
burglaries, a fact which suggests the un>
| pleasant suspicion that perhaps the gov
eminent has unwittingly been the source
| of the very information that has been
utilized by private burglars in the robbery
| of the government safes. The postofiice
| safes blown open in April were those Of
BellewOod, Pa; Lafayette, Ky; Union
| Vile, o.; South Omaha, Neb.; Clyde, n.
Y; Waterford, n. Y; Pulaski. Ia, Mont
| pelier, Ind; Oradell, N. Y. Calhoun, Mo-;
| Glencoe, Mimi; oxford, Mass; Jonesburg,
n. Y; Ledyard, N. Y; Brooktown, n. Y;
Mandarin, Fla; Newbury, Mass; Nyack,
n. Y; Maiden, H., and Holland. Neb. A
burglar blew open safe in the office OF
the Washington Steamboat Company,
within a mile of the treasury. Another
burglar successfully used in New York
the methods employed by the government
experts.
There are photographs in the govern
ment books showing how safes are blown
open by means of pocket battery. This
is a very ingenious device, which shows
that the knights of the jimmy are keeping
pace with civilization. Photographs Nos.
Is and 16 in the book illustrate the BE
fore and After of modern safe burg
larry, by the most approved methods. In
photograph No. Is a gentleman with
long and populistic beard is depicted kneel-
ing on TOP Oh q large DuIBldI -plOOl SdACs
The safe is tied about with several coils
of heavy rope. A wire terminating In
button held in the right hand, leads to
a battery in the hip pocket. Another wire
leads from the battery down through
hole drilled in the front of the safe. The
expert seems to be in a state of medlta-
ton. Photograph No. 16 shows the condi-
ton of the burglar-proof safe after the
long-whiskered expert pressed his little
button. The safe door has been blown
open as far as the ropes will allow-to the
extent of several inches
The expert no longer meditates. He looks
exultant In their description of this most
alluring and successful experiment, the
experts say the safe weighed six tons and
cost over $1,000. First the hole was drilled
into the front of the safe. This occupied
three hours Then a wire having attached
to it a quarter-ounce cartridge of dynamite
was inserted.
There are two photographs in the book
showing precisely how. to drill holes in
safes The first photograph represents the
burglarious tools in position. The second
photographs shows three men at work at
the tools, drilling the hole. No picture
could be more enlightening to burglars, and
even a school boy, after seeing these two
photographs, will have a very good idea of
how to bore holes in a safe.
Drilling the hole seems to have been as
popular among these government safe
breaking experts as among their imitators
in private safe-breaking circles. After all,
there is nothing so sure the government
experts declare, as drilling the hole, pro-
vided the police do not interfere. There
are photographs in the book of all kinds
of holes in all kinds of safes.
The most attractive picture-to burglars
lis photograph No. II. which shows man
taking bag of gold through hole drilled
in the side of safe. The smiling face of
the expert peeps over the top of the safe.
There is one more bag of gold left in the
| safe.
If RED" Leary could only come back to
| life and see that picture-if he could only
see the mans hands reaching in through
| the hole for the gold-he would no doubt
| breathe his benediction on the Industrious
/ and scientific men who conducted the ex-
| periments for the government.
A Razor-Back Ship.
From Harper's Weekly.
Lying at private wharf in Alexandra,
4 l.