Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-22
ROBBERS OUT Of JOB
BURGLAR ALARMS HAVE
INJURED The PROFESSION
Big Steals Of Years Ago Now Prac-
ticalIy Impossible Noted Burg
lars Become Petty
Thieves.

The modern burglar alarm renders
1t impossible for one to disturb vault
protected with it without detection. II
has driven the old style bank burglar
out OF business. The few living eN-
pCrts Of that class OF crooks are iOuni
either in abjeCt poverty or devOtlng
their genius, which brought them
millions twenty years ago, to the
practice OF crime OF the most petty
character.
The electrical burglar alarm OF to.
day and the great modern sales are
the result OF a series OF bank rOOber'
les extending over a period OF twenty
or thirty years which were conceived
and successfully carried out by a
band OF criminals, many of whom are
alive today. Strange as ii may seem
these men have driven themselves out
OF business.
The wealth which they stole made
the invention OF mechanical devices
which would foil their skill necessary
and they came in the course Of time,
until today robbery like that OF the
Manhattan Bank, or that OF the
Ocean Bank in New York city, in
which more than a million dollars in
money and securities were carried
away is wholly impossible.
One of the best living illustrations
OF the old school of crooks Is MaXimil
ian SChOenbciu, better known to the
police of the world as Count Max Shin
burn. After defying the vaults and
safe makers of the world and lOOting
banks in this country and abroad for
an aggregate gain of S5.OOO.OOO this
great criminal fell victim to modern
science. He was released not long
ago from the Clinton Prison after. a
five years term Tor rObbing the Mid
uIeDurg Bank, penniless, gray with
age, broken IN heath and spirit.
some Oh the big Jobs IhaL Snlnburn
engaged III were the robbery vi the Le'
htsu ana MIIkesDarre COaI Company 5
once at WnIlcnaven, Pa, Oi $,O,vUU IL
rasn Uy lunnemng ms way 10 the
tduIt irOm an ADJOINING building. the
ROBBERY OF the waIpOIe. y. H., bank OF
Sou,uUv; me ROBBERY VI the 81. Adams,
"" bank OF S%v.UvU; the robbery OF
the Ocean BanA or GrcenwICn street.
New YORK, OF SI,UvO,UvU IN money ana
securities, and the robbery oI the West
maryland Bank OF $2o,UUU.
IHaunCcy JOansOn, man who stole
over S2,uOuUuO IN ms time, dled pen.
niless not long ago While serving a
term in prison Tor stealing a pocket
book from a woman III New York
city book store. lie took the pocket
book because he was IN genuine need
In his time he was one o. the most
tskiltul and successful thieves in the
country. but the field for his peCulial
talents had disappeared.
An almost similar case Is that oil
Edward Rice, better known to the pc
lice as Big I'D Rice. lie was last ar.
rested for stealing "A poCketboOk from
woman in Twenty.third street car
In New York City. Once or twice be.
fore that he had been accused Of pick
ing pockets, but the crimes could not
be fastened on him.
When convicted Of the street car
robbery Rice broke down and confess.
cd that he had turned piCkpOCkct be-
cause there was nothing else for him
to do. The only money ne had for
over year was what he could raise
by pawning the sCarfpins, watches
and articles OF JewCiry he had stolen
from men and women in street crowds,
This confession from man who
with his associates, had stolen millions
In his time, was interesting. Next to
Shinburn he was regarded as the most
dangerous bank TObber in the country
Around the country today there are
probably score OF other crooks who
thrived and MADE fortunes by their
nerve and skill in the palmy days OF
. . I.. 81 la h.
! passed and every year two or three OF
them are picked up for some trifling
crime that fifteen or twenty years age
they would have sCOrned to think oil
committing.
| Electricity and the modern safe has
driven them to the wall. Gradually
they are dying off.
James DunIap. the great bank bur
glar, and partner of Bob Scott, who
was pardOned by Governor Russell o.
| Massachusetts in TOO, was recently ar
rested in Chicago while polishing a Sc
Of the portable burglars tools tina
Max Shinburn invented. Bent will
age and his eighteen years of prison
life, coughing his life away with con
sumption, this one.time brilliant THE
worked away over his tools, which. a,
he afterward confessed, he was golni
to use to break into a candy store.
Luckier far luckier ILan these men
who have lived to taste the bitterest
experience of life, are the score OF
more men who used to be associated
with them years ago, but either dice
in prison or with their boots on wniCf
generally means by the bullet or Tho
knife. Truly, the old.time bank break
or is passing away,-New York Sun.
She-Poor fellow! So you loved an,
lost, did you?
He-No. | emit say TINT | lost nnv