The evening world., 1911-02-14
WATCHDOG CLERK
PROVES EASY FOR
HYPNOTIC THIEF
I'iZrlsr Barkelanik Leaves
Money Out and Door Open
for Burglar.
SO HE TELLS
Now RickSecker Wonders
Why He Failed 10 Tell Po- .
licenlan on the Job.
SO HE TELLS DRUGGIST.

1T Isn't 20 bad to W burglars drop
IN on you nov and them lalnented
Druggist Ricksecker OF No. 375 Lenox
avenue to-day, but It seems n me
kinder tough to have a clerk you'd trust
k the Bank Of England so confornGed
susceptible to hypnotlsm that he turns
over the store to a visitor while there's
$50 pounds OF uniformed policemi.u
standing outside the door.
This clerk of mine wears the name
81 Pizer Barkelanik. which l consider
pretty good name for a watchdog. I've
been trusting him for six years to stow
the money In the safe at night and
close up the store. Blu on Sunday night
he does the opposite-takes the money
out OF the safe and opens up the store.
He does this for a. tall. lean gent. who
makes passes at him and shows him
he's got hardware in his pocket.
I've told this story TO eight detec-
lives and fourteen cops. and instead OF
listening serious they get red in the face
and begin to cough. They refuse to
estimate that Pier Barkelanik is such
a compound consolidated chump as he
confesses to. 1t sure Is a puzzler.
He Purchases.
1t was about II L.. NJ. when the tai;
lean gent dropped into the store. pass
ing right by the large cop out front. tc
purchased a Rosa Dulcinea Odorosu.
lights 1t and says to Pizer. 4 see you're
slone?'
Except for the cat, yes. says Pier.
Pleased to hear It, says ihe stran-
ger. who is well dressed and looks like
fA % hNS uTa Il am IA httrvInv . La
goes on just as natural as II he'd said
he was a barber or "A piano tuner.
NOV. that fellow Barkelanik mas got
whistles and bells and burglar alarms
ali over the shop. He's got >lGQ IN cash
belonging to me In two shoe boxes in
the safe. and he's got So worth OF
s.amps belonging 10 our branch post
ONCE. Moreover. that dig cop is SAL
Out in front.
II Iei Just given the SAFE door a
rdsi there wouldn't have been any rob-
pcry. II ned pushed n button or
GTJpped behind the counter with a loud
scItam all would have been well. But
no: he looks into that burglars eyes
lie a sparrow looks INTO the eyes of a
snake, and It's all OFF.
LOCKER here says the burglar. 1
don't believe in rough stun. and l don't
want ~ cause any Inconvenience to that
N'p 'Al loHNs lou Ittin I pass over
The gelt now: just put L out for me.
Take those two shoe boxes out OF the
safe and stack 'em alongside that bottle
of cyanide of potassium. You can leave
that Government money and those
stamps in the safe. | don't want any
secret service sleuths trailing me. You
can lock the front door, he says, but
leave the back door leading into the hall
open III be back In about an hour
Then he makes two passes in front
OF that clerks eyes and shows him a
pocketful of hardware. Which done.
he buys another Rosa Dulcina odur,,G
and saunters out. passing the time OF
night with that cop who IS still an
chored in the vestibule.
Did +. Barkelanik go out and tell
that policeman? lie did not. lid he
nave sense enough TO put that none.
back in the safe and shut the door?
Alas, not.
II explains this by saying that that
tall lean gen took his brain outdoors
with him. What he did was to lay
those two boxes OF money out by the
cyanide bottle. lock the empty safe,
bolt the front door and leave the back
entrance open. Then he went home.
He waited a couple OF hours and came
back to see IL that smooth thief had
carried out his programme. lie had.
That clerk OF mine may be honest. but
n he Is there's a considerable ivory
grown somewhere above his shoulders