Show BANK PRESIDENT STANDS STANOS ON GUARD Frank I Knox Takes Watch Near NearS S Door of Recently Recalcitrant Recalcitrant Recalcitrant Recal Recal- Vault Haft Ha i any Iny misguided desperado tempted tempt d by the open steel door leading to the vault ault penetrated the National Bank ank of tho Republic late lyte last night or early this morning he would have encountered tho president of the Institution Institution institution Frank Knox Kno himself armed and ready Said desperado would have havo en encountered encountered encountered en- en countered other armed and ready persons perSons per per- sons ons as well J. J Having HavinS' had tho the very cry dickens of a time for nearly a week trying to break 4 Into the bank vault himself and broach 4 the money stored there Mr Knox Is determined that no one else elso shall have havethe the tho Mr tr Ir E T In get getting ln-i ln int Into the th- vau vault i. i to b to be s sure r but It took days and finally the tho aid of an acetylene gas drilling machine machiner V borrowed from a Tooele smelter r V With this gas haa driller a hole was burned Thursday In a steel roof over oer the tho space between tho outer and Inner vault doors the outer door resisting all attempts to open it since last SatI Sat Sat- I morning With the aid ald id of workmen of oC various V description an and nonprofessional safo- safo blowers Mr Knox had whacked V pounded and drilled his strong bo box wa way Into wV nights ca causing lodgers In the white Whito i hotel to toss In their leep and dream of mine explosions and andt the t r rattle of fi musketry But Mr Knox saYS tha police did not 0 ys Uh 1 L make so much I o a i Y lne sara safe drilling operations Gas Drill Imported r V Ramming failed and likewise did tho the t k common or garden variety of steel drills Various export advice on safecracking safe safe- I 1 cracking ii did not load to success Tho The 4 Vault Quit heM held st steadfast Then came camo the Importation of ot th the tho gas as drill from j Tooele ThIs w was done dono at the thc Instance of T p Joseph A. A Sliver Silver who sho then took charge ft nf or of the opening of the tho vault I His MIs method was wag to melt molt the steel which 1 the drills refused to bite except at a very slow rate ThIs inia remarkable remarkable- Instrument burned a a. hole halo In the only place m tn tho the V Whole vault and that merely merch was a 1 coverIng for tor the thc vestibule between the tho la two stout ut vault doors The Tho heat v T av Sary to burn the hole holo was consider consider- i able The e heat was considerable oven ovon I when hen Kr two hours later Bank President ii i lox nox skinned ed down to his lila underwear f a a pair nair Of ot overalls and a determined look lOOk permitted himself to be 16 lowered I I lt the tho vestibule after Mr Silver Later With tho the assistance of ot Mr Silvers Silver's Sll- Sll vers ver's f 8 o 8 son n. n also a R. mechanic tho the door I J. J v Was opened P 4 L TH When en the big bIC door which had Im- Im iraL 0 wo th tho funds since last Saturday Wall OPened here hero wu was nothing to show Why hy j ll It stuck clocks The three time V V hab haa d rUn d down wn but two o of them thorn started briskly a again aln when wound Tho The safe sate V anI and I experts will look at tho door 1 and try and find ind out what's ats the mat- mat matter ter tt Door floor Sprung Wont ont Close Clone I The d door or has sprung a little now and andon 3 rr refuses to bc he closed So it remains j- j on open in o 0 nl nights although tho the combS combS- JI n nation i Inner door is safely locked and there thero i is i a stout several ton safe sate Inside Im th the vault which holds tho coin file rho has Kas as driller having burned the holo hole In thc vestibule has welded the aperture I again so 50 soles Its It's tI tight ht and Ind snug once more I |