Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-10

gun will shoot. Fact is, it's so sweet that
it's almost cloying. Now I've heard your
proposition. You give me a couple Of days
to investigate you and then we'll talk bust
ness
'"rhey arranged another meeting at the
same place a couple of days later, and in
the meantime the cTacksman whose facili-
ties were the best, looked into the job. He
found that his man really was the cashier
Of an upstate bank, in town not more
than an hours run from New York. So
when the cashier called at the appointed
time the burglar was ready to talk bust
ness.
"'You'n have hard nights work said
the cashier for in order 90 avert sus-
picion, Ill have to leave the vaults and
safes locked tlghter'n a drum as usual.
You'll need several assistants
That's my end of it, replied the cracks
man. You just let me handle those little
details. Every man to his trade. They
don't make 'em so strong that can't get
into en-
A ProhtIess Job.
"Then all of the details were arranged,
and the robbery was fixed for a certain
night in the following week. The cashier
was especially solicitous that he should
cracking. The craftsman assured him that
II there was $S5esO in the job $4,000 would
be enough for himself and his associates
and the cashier would get the rest. on the
night fxed the cracksman and three OF his
best men went up to the town and pulled
of the job. II was a matter OF four hours
before the gang, after overpowering and
gasSiug the Waterman, got into the main
safe They found It empty. Then they
tackled the smaller safes. These, too, were
empty. IKE top-notck cracksnan was
pretty mad, naturally,
He had been played for a good thing
and he knew II. The cashier had simply
looted the bank himself, and the robbery
which he had arranged was 70 cover up his
own trail There have been HapoleoAS OF
finance without number developed from
among bank sasfhers but never heard of
a neater job than that.
"Of course the craftsman and his pals
had nothing for It nut to pack their kits
and drill back 10 New York They weren't,
Of course, in position to say anything
/ about how they'd been done. The top
notch cracksrnan had 10 read I'm the after
| noon papers the luFid accounts of how the
ties approximsting $4,000 h amount and
grind his teeth and euss. The banks fail
| ire was announced few days later
This professional craftsman got nabbed
with the goods a couple OF months later
and was sentenced 20 three-specker l
happened to Ne with the detective who was
taking the craftsman mp 10 Sing Sing. At
one OF the stations. bit Of a ride out OF
New York, l noticed the craoksman's face
| suddenly darken with wrath, and l asked
him what was up. He pointed out a sleek
looking man who was sitting in a dogcart
| alongside the station. ana he cursed that
man IN blood-curdling way for two min
utss before he was able 10 tell the story as
I've told II. The man in the dogcart was
the cashis< who'd been crafty enough 70
put Il over one Of the most accomplished
all-around crooks m me western hemi-
sphere. The failure % the bank hadn't
hurt the cashier at ell IN the estimation OF
his towRsmen. Tine bank was robbed by
craoksmsn. ySu -, 30 how could the
cashier help tie banks failure?
But thess things an work out in time
~ smasiated, palsled cid vag I saw \
i JSfssSSca Market cOort IN New York a fs0
weeks age wSs that bank eashisr. nov
| reapins what he sswed. star.
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