The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-09
City News.
METHODS OF SAFE
BLOWERS CHANGE
Chief of Police Tells of
Some of the New
Wrinkles.

81 see,''said Chief of Police O'Connor
in conversation with a G | o b e re-
porter, that the gun of Chicago are
bringing back the body of Milwaukee
Dutch who died in Paris about a
week ago."
who's Milwaukee Dutch?'"
milwaukee DCtch?' Why, he's the
man who raised all kinds of Old Harry
through the country-St. Paul among
the rest of the places-for whom the
police of Milwaukee would have given
most anything to get hold of about
two or three years ago He was the
slickest of the Slick continued the
chief, reminiscently. upon my soul,
l don't know of any nan who could
come within a mile of him n the
country is flooded with good ones, too.
Personally he was a nice kid, as n
can tell from the fact that the guns
of Chicago are clubbing together and
spending a lot of money just to bring
over the remains from Paris, where
he died in prison"
Has st. Paul produced many clever
men in that line?" asked the report
er.
IF. she hasn't, I'd like to know what
city has! There are about twenty of
the best in the 'profesh' who claim
the Sanity City as their home. Fell
lows who return here often, dressed in
the SWEETEST of toys, to visit their
friends; and few if any outside Of the
police know how they get the clothes.
No, certainly l won't tell you their
names They've friends here who are
up in the swell list. But those fell
lows, as soon as they become good
enough to do fine work, will not bother
with the West. They hike to the
East where the big game is, and they
get it, too.
mo, the safe blower of today is not
the man he once was. The cracker
of today does not carry around a bur-
denSome bundle of steel tools weighing
o seventy-ave pounds. He is not
the well dressed, IA living man of
other days, who moved in good society,
In many instances, until rounded up.
The safe man of today is a tramp, a
hobo, a pariah, an outcast, even among
criminals. His outfit is a rubber bot
tie Of nitroglycerin, a cake of brown
soap and a handful of decorating caps.
The door of a safe Is blown off now,
not prfed.
Yes, even in spite of all tie precau-
lions and actual arrests that are made,
many banks are touched The last six
months has been about the hardest
half-year in the history of the Pinker-
ton people. In every Pinkerton Office
there is a map upon which is a line of
little black stars reaching from Maine
to California and from Florida to
Washington. Every one of these stars
means that there was a bank blown
there. There are f1fty-six of those
stars, and of the number, very few
arrests were made to show for the
men who were placed upon the track.
F1fty-SiX! YOU bet, it's a good rec
ord for the guns! p
who are the men among the
criminals who are today getting the
long green?' Without a doubt 1t is
the 'yegg men, What is a 'yegg man? p
They are men who do not burglarize a
store, but rob 1T just the same. They
operate around small towns and vii
lagos. They work the pockets at large
gatherings and numberIess other ways
that are comparatively safe. How do
they rob a store and not burglarize it?
TIL explain. They choose their store
and either secure skeleton keys for it
or find a rather easy transom. Then
they enter it at night and take, say,
half a dozen pairs of shoes, and scatter
their lifts all over the store, so thai
the losses are not noticed by the pro-
prietor the next day. They are care
is never known to any but themselves.
They do this at several places in a
night, n because of the absolute
security OF feeling in regard to the po-
lice, there is no trouble in getting rid
of the articles.
Eyes, that is the modern manner of
making a living by criminal means.
Things change with the march Of sci
ence in that calling just the same as
In any other"