Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-11-25
Rather aNeat Job
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There Ia considerable prejudice against
q don't myself think It's much worse
then : oood many others. However,
thot,. .no+b,np 10 do with nv story.
ron,s voors oco me and the gentleman
wbo wos AZ TINT time connected with
mo a. hnsiness-he's met with reyerses
.,nce then. and at present isn't able to
oct ort- ,yera ,od,,inp around for Job,
ha,nn a. that fine rather hard up, as
w., r,,.h+ Gov We struck small
oon,,t,., +o,vneI amt a-goin' to give 1t
.,no, bv falling where IT was. or what
A. =, - - - Moe There was one hank
tharo. Tho nresident was rich old
d,,near. owned fine mills. owned the
ho,,, on,nad most of the town. There
yasn,+ m other officer but the cashier.
and t,,av had . hov. who used to sweep
ont and RIM of errands. NJ ~
mo hon,, was on the main street,
rrettv we'll nm one end Of it-nice, snug
ploces nm the corner Of cross street,
nth nothing very near It We took our
.hsarvo+ions and fonnd there wasn't no
tronh,e ut nil about It. There was n
old wo+cbman that walked nm and down
tha straots n,ebts when. he didn't fall
ss,asn and forget r. The vault had two
d A.. Tho outside one was chilledi iron.
,nd +hrae wheel combination lock
+ha ,nrer door wasn't no door 1T all !:
~ ~, ovid v,ct q omen IT didn't pre.
49, 49, - ha noth,no hnt f,re;nroof and n
WASN'T even that. The first thing We
done. Of course, was to ct a key to the
outside door. AS the lock on the out
side door was an old-fashoned Bacon
lock INV gentleman in my profession
who chances to read this article will
know lust how easy that Job was, and
how we did it.
This was our plan: After the key
was fitted was to 90 into the bank,
and Jim-that wasn't his name, Of
cmrse. hit let 1t pass-was to keep
watch on the outside. When any che
nassed he was to tip me whistle, and
then i doused the gllm and lay low;
aeter thew got by, goes on again.
s,mnle and easy, you see. Well, the
nioht ma we selected the president hap
nened TO be out of town; gone down to
the CITY. as he often did. / got inside
all right. with slide lantern, a breast
drill. small steel jimmy, bunch of
skeleton KEYS and green baize bag. to
stow the swag. i fixed my light and
rugged nv breast drill, and got to work
on the door right over the lock.
.prohah,v a great many Of onr road.
.rs ~ not co veil nosted as mo obo,,+
ha,s looLs and NAV saw for tben,
thot thrae wheel continuation 1ocL has
( thraa ,rbaals In n and q s,ot. IN aocb
whae, In order 20 nnloc,, +he door vo,,
hove - ,at tho tbrao s,o+s onnos,ta -
aaoh ,ot,,er ~ tho ION y, +ha .,oor az
oo,,rsa !, ro,, .no,r tha n,rnhor INC ,ooL
:. 80 - =. -, 49,, ~, A. 4,,a. ~. - -,
dar,+ 49,. shora - aonana ~ rorr T.,
aar,.,.v Thoro 10 - aaoh =, +,,asa
Thaa,. q smoiI hole +h.o,,ah ,,h,oh 10,
aan MI -r,ra +bro,,a,, tt,e haa,' - ~, ~
,aa,, n,ha, ,o,, ,,,.nae tho oo,,,,,,nat az.
Now i, vo,, no., ,hara bo,a t,,aanat,
~. aoor ara ,,,a,. -, .hoso ,,,,,aa,s e..
r,,nnina a ,y,re tbrnnoh tbosa ho,as
whv Won ,an omen the door 7 hono i
MAZE mvself cleor wos nor,na thot
hole Tba door was chilled iron abont
tha naatas+ strfr aver worried On +
went on steady enough. only stoned
when Jlm-wbich, as.I said. wasn't his