Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-08
(Phoenix Gazette.l

The secret Of Maryo is thought to
be no longer a secret; the handcufi
king is perhaps no longer king.
Maryo made tremendous hit when
ne was in Phoenix along about the
middle of July. For week ne held
forth and mystified thousands. Then
he went to Prescott, where he made
as big a hit as he did here.
II made no difference now he was
shackled, Marvo got out of the irons.
He said that his secret was simple.
anybody on the street could do the
same as if he but knew the trick.
II was "a twist of the wrist, he said,
and ne was right. Deputy Sheriff Jeff
Adams knows how to make that twist
Adams has been amusing himself OF
late putting handouts on his friends
who happen to drop in at the sheriff's
Office, and then showing them now
to get out of them. None of them has
yet failed to unlock the shackles.
A Gazette reporter was today shack
led with the same bracelets Marvo
wore--until he got into a closed cell
and took them of. Ia was no trick
at all to unlock the shackles Even
the handouts which Marvo confessed
puzzled him somewhat, were easy
These were the handouts connected
not by a chain but by a steel bar
thirteen inchs long. A prisoners
hands are placed behind him and
these irons snapped upon his wrists.
man not knowing the secret might
keep his hands behind aim and with
that steel bar between the rest of his
life, provided no one took the trouble
TO release him.
Marvo invited any one to snap hand
cuffs upon his wrists, but ne never in
yited them to look through his pockets
and take away all keys found there.
That's the secret Anyone can open
a lock if he has tae key that fits it.
Marvo said that he was an expert
in handouts. He said he had studied
every kind ever manufactured And
knew there were just PIT kinds in the
United States. He did not say that
ne had key for every kind manu-
featured, but there is no other ex-
PLANTATION for his wonderful perform
ances. 1t requires just one good look
ct modern pair of handouts for a
man of ordinary intelligence to be GER
without a key or some instrument to
pick the lock. To unlock them with
the fingers only is a manifest impos-
sibility.
Maryo may not have had all the
keys. He may have had a few skele-
ton kenys, each one OF which unlocked
a certain number of handouts. He
did not allow the handouts of Sheriff
Hayden and his deputies to be placed
upon his wrists without first learning
the different makes in use by the Mar
icopa county peace officers. First he
called at the sheriffs office. talked
handouts and ascertained that most
Of the shackles there were of the
Maltby model. When the deputies Of
fered to put some upon his wrists
and let him take them off then and
tire he excused himself on tAe
grounds of being in a big hurry.
Later he sent boy over from t
Airdome for the handouts. Deputy
Davis and several others went over
and saw three or four pairs of brace
lets upon his wrists. TAe hand
cuff king retired behind q screen
and came out again in a minute or
two with all the handouts unlocked
he did go over 10 the sher-
ifs office and allow himself to be
shackled: He was locked up in the
drunk cell. Soon he called to be let
out and was found entirely free
Of his shackles.
There seems to be no room to doubt
that Marvo had to look over his stock
Of keys before having any strange
handouts placed upon him. When
he found the key which unlocked the |