The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-03
lIl'IIlIAlI-a o IsSe. MRA
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

esSehNS~ safecracker and on honest forger, both 50 well within the lew that they are often in her service.
 James Biancolo boasts that he has never been baffled by . tum- bier combination and that he has successfully tried vaults where even burglars feared to tread George Deaabin signs other peo- pies names to letters with per- lnission) and with such skill that the signature owners can't tell them apart. Mfr. De Rabin, how ever, is careful to sign only his own name to cheeks.
 Of course, both gentlemen have been accosted by crooks who have solicited their services with prom iscs of Q fair split in the gwag, Both honorable sigor Biancolo and Monsieur Do Rabin have laughed the offers off. They manage oil right in Q legitimate business.
 Vaultlng All Obstacles
 Down in Little Italy where slgnot Biancolo keeps his shop, the sign over the door merely says Lock- Smith". People come in to got key duplicates or to have the spring in their doorlotch repaired. The good Signor doesn't mind thS small fry business, but his forte b gAfecrack- ing and vault opening of 8 more spectacular sort.
 For example, several years ago c porter at ono of the hospitals wandered into the basement vault and accidentally closed the door The police emergency squad wa called and set to work with oxy. ncetylene tocheg. But the gaa fumes reached the imprisoned fel- low and the gescuers had to stop So they sent for Biancolo. Within ten minutes, after bending an ex. pert ear near the tumblerB and twisting the disc, ho had the steel door open.
 or there was the time when c waiter hid in the vault of the Hotel Pierre for Q bootleg smoke The door rolled back and snapped shut. Frightened, the SerVitor lit cigarettes one after another, little knowing that he was haStening hl own death. Biancolo had him out in six minutes.
 Once, and this Is 0 long time ago he was summoned by Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson to open the lock oi Q tiny safe she had inherited from her mother. The company thal had manufactured 1t was stymiedi said they could only drill Q hole through 1t. Biancolo gently opened the door of the sentimental strong box in three minutes.
 BOltIng Two Yeggs
 And if the Neapolitan Jimmy Valentine told you how he did 1t he would be tossing away the sine' cure of a lifetime. Maybe I got tht feel in my fingers" he confesseS Anyway, they are sensitive to combination lock. But I also hav' Q system.
 The burglars who come to Bt' ancolo's shop for professional ad' vice, incidentally, aren't very sub tic. Usually, they start by expalin' ing that they are in the market fol Q certain kind of safe in their pri' Vate office but are eager to fint out first how easily 1t can be closed and opened. And then they asl for 8 professional demonstration Biancolo spots them at once.
 On one occasion, however, h' was almost fooled. Two men cant to the shop late in the evening aTlt said that c board conference wal being held up in their uptowi offices because certain docun1ent could not be extracted from thu safe. They persuaded the scrupu' lous safecracker to go along witt them.
 ~En route, he started aslkinl questions. And got no satisfac tory answers. When the tax stopped for Q red light at the cor ner and Q traffic cop blew Q com forting whistle, Biancolo hastily sait Goodnight, gentlemen" leaped Ou and stumbled into the policemani arms.
 Personal Touch
 As for Mons. De Rabin, he doel not enjoy 50 many tits with thu underworld. He restricts his forg' ing to multiple letters by celebrl' ties of finance and the entertain ment world, in order to give then the personal touch.
 He has 600 signatures 60 perfec at his fingcrtips that they wouls ] be honoFed by a bank clerk.