Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-06

different keynOleS.
How thoroughly Moore went at his work
will be gathered from his next step. He
went to Boston and hunted the city over
for a safe of the same make as the one at
Concord His industry was rewarded by
finding one at a safemaker's. Moore got
the shoemaker to explain the mechanism
of the safe to him, pretended that he
wished to buy it, but finally went away
without purchasing it.
The burglars visits to the bank con-
tinued. They we're now able to let them
selves in by the front door. They APP
peared upon the scene three times week
for six weeks, and they worked indus
triously from midnight to three in the
morning on each occasion. AS a result
of this labor they we're able to open the
vault door by the end of that time. They
had succeeded in fitting every one of the
five keys necessary to open 1t.
Then they. found themselves confronted
with the inner door 1t had two keyholes.
Two weeks more time was required to
fit keys to these locks. Opening the sec
ond door, they came to the burglar box.
Moore found that one of the two locks on
this box was of such a character that
fitting a key to it was out of the question,
and it would be necessary to blow 1t open.
Moore paid numerous visits to the bank
in the daytime in order to get further in
formation which might prove valuable to
him. purchasing notes as a pretext for his
presence there. On one of the visits he
observed that the cashier did not place in
his pocket the key which the burglars had
found themselves unable to fit, but laid it
on a shelf in the vault. With this key in
their possession it would be unnecessary
for them to blow the box.
Some days later Moore decided the time
had arrived to turn the trick"
He and Howard drove into town Moore
stayed in the vicinity of the bank. When
the cashier left the bank for his lunch
Howard drove down to grocery store al
most opposite the bank, where he was to
act as lookout Then Moore walked boldly
to the bank and let himself in with the
key he had made.
Just as the burglar was closing the door
he heard a child's voice exclaim: Let me
in" and the child had followed so closely
upon his heels that he couldn't have
closed the door without forcibly putting
the child outside.
Moore was unusually quick-witted. He
realized that if the child's suspicious were
aroused she might alarm the town. He
asked her what she wanted, and when she
said she desired to see the cashier the
burglar promptly replied that the cashier
was attending a directors conference, but
that if she same back in an hour she could
see him.
Quite unsuspicious, the child left the
bank and Moore bolted the door behind
her. Making his way to the vault, the
burglar found everything as he had ex-
pected, and in a very few minutes the
funds of the bank lay at his mercy Coolly
he transferred the bonds notes and bills
to a mealsack which he carried for the
purpose, and then confscating the key
which opened the bolts after they had
been unlocked and which the cashier had
left in its keyhole he closed the doors OF
the safe and made his way out of the
bank.
Without any undue haste the burglars
made a safe getaway. Although Moore
was subsequently arrested for this crime,
he was able to make a deal by which he
secured his freedom in consideration of
his restoring some two hundred thousand
dollars worth of the booty to the bank.
At this time there was a type Of safe
which vas thought to be burglarproof. 1t