The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

about IL o'clock last Monday night" said
Majors. 1--WE walked around the Central
Bank building several times. Only the
day before we decided there ought to be
money in the safe. and we decided to try
it. We walked around. looking for lad
der, and found one padlocked in the rear
of paintshop on Fifteenth street. we
pried it off and stood it up against the wall.
THE first thing we did was to open the
door in the basement and then we pried
open the door which led into the bicycle
basement. l went into the workshop, and
Ford ran upstairs and took the money
from the till. Afterward 1 went upstairs
and we monkeyed around for little while.
Then We came down and opened the win
dow which led into the basement of the
music-store. The trapdoor was unlocked,
and we went upstairs. Ford bored the
holes in the safe ana put in the charge
while 1 peeked out the front.
~ don't know the force of dynamite or
anything. Majors always did all of that;
he seemed to know about it. 1t was about
half-past when everything was ready.
We had not seen soul, and worked all of
the time. Majors lit the fuse and we ran.
We climbed over the wall and were run
ming across the vacant lot when the explo-
sion occurred. We ran right on and
jumped over the fence of house facing on
Franklin. We hid there until nearly 5
o'clock. Then / went out and took walk
around the block, and looked in the front
of the store.
Everything was all right, and l went
back after Ford. Then the two of us went
into the store again. Ford took a hammer
and knocked the knob off the inside door
and put little dynamite in. We only
went down in the cellar this time. After
the report we came upstairs and found $55
in little drawer. There were two small
jewel-cases, which we took, and found in
one of them some silver knives and little
spoons, and in the other watch, one
bracelet, little chain with blue Iocker,
two little stick pins and an earring. The
$500 must have been in Girard's mind.
When we read the papers we had to laugh
at the exaggeration."
Last nights work was neat job, and
netted us about $50.
eve went to the theater last night with
Mrs. Willmore and Ina," said Majors,
land after we got home we pretended to
go to bed, and after we thought Mrs.
Willmore and Ina were asleep we started
out toward the water front. We came to
Buffers hay and grain place down on
Webster street, and forced the door with
my jimmy. / opened the two doors of the
safe and then broke open the little box in
the inside. / didn't count what we got,
but think it was about $40 or $50.
after that we went over to the coal
Office on the wharf, and forced window
and we got inside. This safe was locked,
| and in attempting to force off the knob of
the safe, / broke our wrench. We then
forced a window in the back Office and
were in there when we heard the officers
come in at the front. We got back in the
warehouse in the rear of the back office,
and then forced a side door and got out
onto Franklin-street wharf.
1--WE did not dare to come out upon the
street there and so ran to the end of the
wharf. We saw a man there who appeared
| to De Waterman on barge. We asked
him If there was spare skiff around, tell
ing him We wanted to go out to vessel in
the stream. He showed US boat and we
got into it and rowed down below Broad
way. We crawled up on the wharf there
and hid until after O'Clock. We then
started up Broadway, turning down First
| to Washington.
When We got to Fifth street we saw the
officers standing on the opposite corner.
| Weturned diagonally across the street, and
as we did SO heard the officers talking to-
gether. They seemed to be discussing
whether they should stop us. Finally one
called to US and we stopped. One of the
men asked us if we were paper boys, and
we told him that we had been down to the
wharf trying to get a paper route.
AS they came over to us, one of the
policemen had his pistol IN his hands, and
When another commenced to search us, the
second one drew his pistol. AS soon as
they found our pistols they Put the hand
cuffs on us.
1--WE intended to leave to-day for the in
terror of the county. This was to have
been our last Job.
'sThe first time ever thought of safe
cracking was when / saw 6 story in San
Francisco paper several weeks ago about
how to work safes. 1t had pictures of all
the tools necessary. and told how the most
expert robbers had cracked safes, and I