The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-11-30

1N prejudice against IT.. n,,, don I
myself think it's much
worse than good many others. How
ever, that's nothing 10 do with Ily
story. Some years ago, me and IN"
gentleman who was at that time con
nected with me in business-he's met
with reverses since then, ana at pres
ent isn't able to go Out-w0s look ,ng
around for job, being at that time
rather hard up, as you might say. We
struck a small country town amt
agoin' to give II away by telling where
II was, or what the name Of II was.
There was one bank there; the prcsi-
dent was rich old dullcr; owned the
mills, owned the bank, owned most of
the town. There wasn't no other OH
Ger but the cashier, and they had a
boy, who used to sweep out aud run
of errands.
The bank was OF the main street,
pretty well up on" end Of it-nicc, snug
place, on the corner OF q cross street,
with nothing very near H. We took
our observations, and found there
wasn't no trouble at all about il. There
was an old watchman thai walked up
and down the street night, when hc
didn't fall asleep and forget it, The
vault had two doors; the outside one
was chilled iron, and had three
wheel combination lock; the inner
door wasn't no door at all; You could
kick II open. 1t didn't pretend to hc
nothing but freproof and IL wasn't
even that The first thing we done,
of course, was TO lt a key 10 the out.
side door. As the lock on the outside
door was an old-fashioncd Bacon lock,
any gentleman In my profession who
Chanc TO read this article viii know
just how easy that job was, aud how
we done IT, | may say here that the
gentlemen in my line Of business. hay
ing at times a good deal Of leisure on
their hands, do considerable reading.
ard are particularly fond of a neat bit
of writing. In fact, In the way of lit
erature, | have found among EN-
however, this u ,i~g DEPRESSION, | drop
il, and go on with the main Job again.
This was our plan: after the key was
fitted | was TO go into the bank, ana
Jim-that wasn't his name, of course,
but let it pass-was to keep watch on
the outside. When any one passed hc
Mas TO tip me n whistle, and then |
doused the glim and lay low, after
they got by goes on again. Simple
oil h, t,yt
we selected the president happened TO
be out of town; gone down To the city
as he often did. | got inside all right
with slide-lantcrn, n hrcastdril!.
small Jimmy, bunch of skeleton keys
and a green baiZe bag To stow the
swag. | fixed my light and rugged my
breast-drill and got TO work ON the
door right over the lock.
Prob. bly, great many Of your read.
ers is not so well posted as me about
bank locks, and | may say for them
that a thrce-whccl combination lock
has three wheels in IL and slot i'm
each wheel In order TO unlock the
door YOU have 10 get the three slots
opposite TO each other at the top OF
the lock. or course IL you know the
number the lock is set on YOU can do
this, but If YOU don't YOU have to de.
pend on your ingenuity There Is In
each of these wheels a small hole
through which you put n wire through
tie back of the lock when you change
the combination. Now, il you can
bore hole through the door and pick
up those wheels by running a wire
through those holes why you can open
the door. | hope | make myself clear
i was boring that hole. The door was
chilled iron; about the ncatcst stun
ever worked Oh. wen; on steady
enough; only stopped when Jim
which, rs | said, wasn't his real name
-whistled outside. ana the watchmau
toddlcd by. by ana 10y. when Id got
pretty near through, / heard Jim-So
10 spcak-whiStlo again. stopped.
ard pretty soon heard footsteps out.
side, and I'm blowed II they didn't
come right up the bank steps. and
heard a key i'm the lock was SO
dumbfounded when | heard that,
that you could have slipped the brace
lets right on me. | picked UP my Ian.
tern, and I'll be hanged II didn't lc,
the slide slip down and throw the light
right on to the door. and thcte was the
president Instead Of calling for help.
ms ! supposed he woul !. he took a step
inside the door, and shaded his eyes
with his hand and looked at me.
kHowed / ought to knock him down
aud cut out. but I'm blcst II could.
was that surprised.
''Who are youf' says he
"Who are your SAYS I. thinking
that was an innocent remark rs ne
commenced it, and a trying all the
time to collect myself.
I'm the president Of the bank. %
says he. kinder short; something the
matter with the lock?'
BY George! the idea came 10 me
then.
Yes, sir" says I. touch ng my cap;
"Mr. Jennings he telegraphed this
morning as the lock was out Of order