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Show He Open Sufes for a Living There is a man in this city who only a short time ago, opened the big vault in the sub-treasury building where $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 was kept, without knowing the combination of the lock and without a tool of any kind, in five minutes. This man's name is Sipp, and, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the fact that Inspector Byrnes knows of the occurrence and knows also who the man is, he has not been arrested. As a matter of fact the same man was taken on to Washington, and with an ordinary mallet opened the big vaults in the mint, where a greater amount of money is stored. He is not a thief, but a hard fisted mechanic who has made a study of locks and safes, and makes more money in doing repairing than he could if he s.ole. He opened both vaults at the request of the authorities simply to show how wretchedly insecure the government gov-ernment money is while locked behind old fashioned doors and poor locks. New York Recorder. |