Year: 1870

Well, we pulled for shore, and struck
the butment hard and stove in the boat.


'The other fellows grabbed the wharf
and run up il like cats and off they went,
but was kinder stunned and couldn't
follow. looked around for moment
or so, and right near me was the mouth
of big sewer. ] put into that like a
streak and went up the pipe on a run.
Sometimes I'd trip up and 90 down on
all fours in the slush witch flowed about
six inches deep in the bottom of the sew
err. After little | stopped 10 listen aud
found there was no one after me. had
passed two or three glimmers Of light as
ran, and right ahead Of me was anotb-
err. Going up to Il, I found the light to
come down an opening from the street.


"Getting a toothold against the wall
of the sewer, I clambered up and stuck
nay head through the opening. IL was
one of those long aud narrow surface
openings which enter the sewers under
the sidewalk at the street corners. The
hold was big enough for me to get my
head and shoulders through, but no more.
The gas above was burning brightly,
and, as looked around, the first thing |
saw was the Surf Bank right close to me,
the width of the sidewalk only separa-
ting. just then heard the slow, steady
walk of policeman, and tucked in my
head. He passed within three feet, and
| the first think that struck me was, now
if I'd grudge against that fellow, how
easily | could out with nv revolver and
shoot him and then ! thought who'd
ever look down in the sewer for the man
who shot hin and how easily could
go down the river and get off


at flashed then over my mind-if a
( fellow was to rob place and had a
friend down the sewer, how nicely he
could hand him the swag aud then walk
home with his hands in his pockets, and
if caught, nothing could he proved.


"These things set me thinking, aud |
concluded l'd dropped on first ale
thing. You know Yourself there amt
any difficulty worth mentioning in the
way of us fellows getting into any bank
in the city, bu. the polio" catch us as we
90 home with the stuff 1t ain't the get
ting il thai bo,hers ms, hut ii'S the way
TO fetch it home through the streets.
Well, to make lorg story short, laid
out to break into that very bank which
was so handy to the sewer. | had the
choice at pals, and ! picked out those !
| thought could trust. | was mistaken
in that, but ri fool 'em yet. got a
feller to hire the basement under the
bank and then for month or so let
the matter lay still, only | was ma'ur-
ing my plans all the while. AT last all
| 4 lu;xy - hnH n
stand by each other through thick and
thin and to share equally the danger and
the stuff, only was tn have ten per
cent on the share of tn five others for
findiug out and planning The lay


Scotch Bob and me and gentleman
Tim. and Jerry Nudge was /" be inside
the base men, Gentleman Tim was the
man that hired it for II brokers' Office,
and Charley Ferris was to be- in the
sewer, and Cute jack was to be in the
street


"We all four were in the bnst ment one
| Saturday. and rs the time tor locking MP
came, three of us got into ii big press
supposed To he full of papers. Gentle
man Tim then walked ont of the Office
and gave the jauitm he key of it. He
then came back and opened the door
| which he had not locked, ana came into
the office.


He then locked the door from the iu-
side with false key, and joined MS in
the press. We locked the door of that
inside, and there we four fellows stood
packed together like sardinrs. Soon we
heard the janitor open the office door
and come in To clean out. He swept
around the office and arranged things a
little, as we could tell by the noise ne
made, and then he cleared out and left
us. wanted To sneeze real had when
he was in the office, but managed 10
stop it.


After he had gone, we stepped out.
We had abundance of time before us, on
ly we to keep still for tine as the jrni-
tor was most likely sweeping the bank
up stairs. So we had good snOoze aud
got to work about midnight. The first
thing was to get down the plaster over
head without noise, which we did 10y
holding blanket under it, and picking
it off gently and in small pieces. We
then got to the laths, and Jerry Nudge,
the carpenter among us, cut them of
4 WIN me saw. IOrgOJ 10 say we nh''
hung blankets before the windows, and
as there were iron shutters too, both
noise and light were kept from the
street. For month previous, Gentle
man Tim had been bringing to the Office
in small quantities, such things as we
needed, and we had good stock of ev-
erything on hand.


We then struck the floor of the bank,
and Gentleman Tim, standing on the
press, soon sawed out piece some three
feet square. Luckily, there was slme
loose mating on the floor overhead, and
not a tackled down carpet and il lay ex-
tended over where we had cut. You see
had been often in the bank, and taken
the bearing of things. We'll we clam
bered up through the hole An surveyed
things. Scoth Bob was a safe-lock ma
ker, and he thought he could open any
combination lock if he only had time
So to work he went. We tellers went
below and left him 10 himself, as he
could work better that way. You see,
we had not intended to remove anything
that night. The time would be too short
We were only 10 get ready to go thro'
the vault and get away with the sun
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