The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-27

In this instance, the man appeared 8 number of times in front of the store. One evening, soon after dark, there was sudden crash, and a robber was actively engaged in scooping in jewels With a hooked stick. In thirty sec- onds he was done and away. Bystand CTS stood as if petrified until the man struck out at run. Then the store people and the bystanders realized what had occurred and shouting Thief" started after the man.
 The man dropped his bag. The pur- suers stopped and seized the bag. They returned to the store with the bag in high glee, remarking incidentally that there was no need in chasing the thief, because here were the goods. The pro-, prietor of the store and all the clerks had followed, but having further to go than the crowd behind and were met by the people with the bag. Proudly the bag was opened. It contained a brick. The thief had dropped it to check the pursuit. Realizing the trick had succeeded the crowd, headed by the salesman and proprietor, went back to the store, only to discover that the window had been cleaned of stock and the counters were bare of a num- br of costly articles.
 A policeman on duty said that after the proprietor and clerks of the store ran for the departing thief, neatly dressed gentleman, with all the airs of member of the firm gave dlrectlons to two other men to get the stuff out of the windows and told him the (offi- cer) that this was being done as a pre- caution against theft while the window was broken. In some first class stores there is a regular danger signal ar- ranged, and the men are drilled each week. When the danger gong sounds or man takes his place at the door, an- other at the telephone to send word to the police, another, with running quail ties. makes for the door, in readiness to pursue, and so on.
 Among other stories told were some relating to the tricks and devices of the jewelry thieves The robber often works at night or some times during crowd, by cutting out disk of glass rear where some costly goods are shown. He may reach in and secure something and be off before detected, if he is quick, Sometimes he has a tong instrument hidden under his coat, so that he can reach in and pick up watch. Often again he uses a simple stick with a slightly turned end, hook ing into a ring.
 The process of crushing in a plate front during the intervals of the patrol of the police, at the same time making no noise, is done by pasting cloth or heavy paper on the glass A wood mallet Is used, the hammer ends being securely bound up in a heavy woollen fabric stuffed with excelsior or kindred material. With this soft headed mal- let 1t is possible to bang away nolse- lessly at the glass until the pane be- gins to crumble, Unless the plate is unusually thick an opening can be made without much trouble.
 In recent years jewelry thieves, like bank robbers, have rented quarters near the place they intend to rob, and lived there long enough to study the situation. In one case room was hired over a jewelry store and entrance effected to the store by means of rope ladder from the window of the room to one in a hall in the store DOT ton. Tn another case the bar spreader was used to poen the bars of a window. This device consists of a spirally threaded shaft into two blocks, with central poece with bar for turning, The blocks are adjusted between two bars, the central piece turned where upon the spiral shaft causs the blocks 10 expand sideways forcing the bars open. Then the intruder can pass in.
 A story was told of removal of q safe fin which the proprietor of a jewell " store was wont to put this costly ly stock each night. It was not a large safe, but exceedingly strong, and be- cause of it's light weight number of bolts were put through the floor and connected with the safe bottom. The proprieor often said that thieves could n take this safe unless they took floor and all. Not long after the store was entered, and behold, the thieves had sawed ont the section of a floor that the safe was fixed. The safe was bound Up with rope, the latter passed under the separated section of flooring, and when the boards wer sawd through safe, floor and all were lowered into the basement, readily moved out through the basement door, put into an express wagon and carted off