Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-24
GREAT GERMAN LIBERAL ASSASSlNATED
Burglar Loses Last
CountyCashChance

There will be deep seated disgust
among all the burglar gentry when
they learn that for several months the
electrical protection for the county
treasurer S vault has been a hollow
mockery. The system installed several
years ago went wrong one day without
notice and since that time all resources
of all electrical thinkers has not been
able to make it function again. For
many, many months the electrical part
of the protection for the county's bank
roll has consisted of fierce sounding
sign on the vault door warning all
burglars to beware because the thing
might go off and hurt somebody.
But now the thing will go off and
no kidding. The Burglary Protection
Co. of Los Angeles has just finished
installing a new system which is the
last whisper in buglar defying devices.
The instructor general of the company
spent last evening instructing Treasur-
cr Barton and Deputy Treasurer Adair
the incantations which have to be gone
through before the vault can be open
ed, even by honest folks, once the
thing has been "set.'
No Chance Without Magic Sign
Now they know all about it and
there is no use of anyone trying to
break into the treasurer s vault unless
he knows how to cross his fingers and
has the pass word.
The system is equipped with an in-
side and an outside alarm. is so del
icately adjusted that merely to touch
the combination will set the alarm off
There is time device which works
nights, Sundays and lunch hours, and
after the tip has been given that it is
lunch time or bed time nothing can
persuade the system to keep mum if
anyone monkeys with any part of it..
The slightest touch will set up a din
in all parts of town that will almost
awaken the dead themselves.
Can't Jinx This Device
There is no use trying to JIM the
machinery either, for to cut wire or
hit any of the apparatus Tith a sledge
merely makes it holler all the louder.
The vault is even safe against the lat
est burglar smart-eeck trick of burn
ing with acetylene torch. The vault
is lined, side walls, top and bottom,
with foil which fuses under unusual
temperature and sets off the alarm.
! All the apparatus of the system is
protected in the same way against the
hot point torch There is absolutely
no way to get at the county's money
except to run for county treasurer at
the coming primaries and there is no
use of~doing that either because Mrs.
Adair has the job on ice.
In addition to the protection for the
vault, the treasurer's office has been
equipped with systems of buttons hid
away in every conceivable place so
that the town can be alarmed upon
the least suspicion of a holdup.
Holdup Proof Everywhere
There is no position in which an at
tendant in the treasurer's office could
| be that if commanded to throw up
his hands, he could not set off the
alarm with his toe, knee, back up
against it, or in some other way give
| the alarm while being perfectly obed-
lent to the command ii stick up his
hands,
The new system has been installed
so that it can be salvaged when the
courthouse is built. There is nothing
better to be obtained anywhere and
when the protection apparatus is re-
moved to the new building it will be
adequate to all of the demands of a
100000 plant.