Eureka Reporter | 1903-06-05 | Page 7 | Bank's Burglar Trap Didn't Work

banks bank a burglar trap didn it work in its account ot of the recent bank burglary at alien allen the emporia kan gazette explains that the trap set by the bank for robbers did not work the trap in question Is unique enough to be interesting above the vault a says a ys th the e gazette was a thin ceiling and about a ton of sand above it it this was there in case cracksmen amen should attempt to blow open the sate safe when the ceiling would burst at the explosion and the sand fill the vault making it impossible to get at the safe however the ceiling d did id not burst and the sand remains kansas city mo journal