The Green Forest tribune., 1903-10-17
Safe Breaking Easy Now.

olHc0 IllS dl0-CFdChluS HUI dent in Green Forest recently rauch has been surmised as to how the work is done. The fol- lowing opinion from high au- thority will be interesting read ing:
 "Any safe in the world that has 8 square door can be opened in half an hour, and all the ma terials needed are d half-pint of nitro -glycerine, a cake of laun- dry soap and five-cent fuse. :"
 This was the opinion expressed recently by T. H. Tillison, Vest ern division chief of the Pinker- ton Agency, who has run to earth many supposedly clever bank burglars in the last ten years says the Newport News Times Herald. Mr. Tillison does not posses very high opinion of the modern bank burglar.
 ''It no longer requires intelli- gence and executive ability to crack 8 safe,' said he. "There was a time when the safe cracks man was the aristocrat of thief dom. Nowadays he is as likely to be tramp as not. 1 have pick ed them off brakebeams with enough nitro -glycerine in bot tie in their pockets to have blown the coach to atoms if it had fallen to the track.
 ''In the old days a bank burg lars kit of tools was large and heavy. Itconsist of steel wedges, drills, sledge hammers and screw jacks. The door of a safe had to be literally torn off in sections, with powder explosion now and then to assist the operation. It was an all-night job for three or four men, and they went after vaults that had big money in them.
 Nitro -glycerine, is not for sale in stores, but dynamite is The burglar buys a stick or two, unwraps it and puts it in a can of boiling water. After it sim mers for an hour he has a neat batch of the dope. nitro glycer- inc. This, being heavier than water, sinks to the bottom. The water is drained off and the nitro poured into bottle.
 It is necessary that the bottle must be filled to the cork. If even d small space is left for the mash to slosh around it might blow up it's possessor. The stuff is highly explosive, so much so that if you stand d bottle of it on the table and shoot off gun in the next room there will be some thing doing' right away.
 "When the chap goes to town he hangs this bottle in a little bag tied to string and hanging next to his chest, so that if ar restd the stuff will not be found. The remainder of his kit consists of cake of soap, piece of soft putty, a fuse and some matches.
 "One man only enters. The others stand guard and block off inquisitive citizens reused by the noise. The man inside works in the dark and with rapidity. He pastes the soap or putty all around the safe door, closing the crack completely save at one spot, at the top. Here he forms the soap or putty into a little cup and pours the liquid nitro into it. This sipes down and into the space between the door and safe, and the burglar keeps pouring until the safe is full.
 s'Then he takes his fuse, black string the length of a lead pencil, with a detonating cap on the end, puts this cap into the putty cup at the top of the door and lights the other end. He crouches behind the safe or one side of it and awaits the explo- sion. If the man understands his business it is not loud one. In our Investigations we have found that about one in ten is heard by people outside of the bank, even by those living up- stairs.
 "But it makes a terrific racket in side. One fellow told me he was as deaf as post for days after each wrecking. The nitro