Show BURGLAR TO ADVERTISE TOWN I Commercial Club Cub Uses Novel Method to Boost Their m Town Chicago Tribune V A number of years year ago the following advertisement in a paper attracted my m attention Game roosters race horses fl ball bal players prize fighters rs and a aw aw fw w burglars burglar the more noto notorious rious the th better beter For particulars write ti tr 1 C e C E f Smith Hasta Manana Cal Cal Cals Vs s a I prided myself that I 1 could be bei i 4 assed as an burglar except That That I had not been around in the v est test I determined to answer the ad However I was wa a little afraid that I Ivaa vaa as not notorious enough for or I had not appreciated the value alue ef t t notoriety in my m profession In fact fr ar from carrying caring on a general put pup publicity so that my name might night become a household word I Ir Ir Iod r od had refrained from letting my nil nt best friends know of ot my m fa ta in the line lne of ot till tI tapping and md safe blowing Still I decided to take a L chance and although in my let et letter JET ter fr I carefully car excluded any of or the de do det de t tn ills of my claims clams for fame my gen gentral gene ml e rl outline of ot my ability as a first lass burglar was wa enough to bring a favorable answer from tram C E Smith Mr Smith said sad that If I would meet hm In Hasta Hata Manana he would ex ax explain e plain more in detail de 1 what the te job would be hr like hk It I pleased me to find that ho he hoI jn I 11 a ticket to that town as I had hadl l en in burglarizing Just pre pro proU v ous U to that time I found Hasta Manana was wa a pleas i 1 t but sleepy py little town situate c ig the thE orange groves of tri di Urnia c Mr 11 Smith who i t learned leared s mf of the most prosperous and progressive citizens of the place told i 1 that the Commercial club cub had de det deWEd t iced WEd upon an advertising campaign to 1 St their town All 1 we need is advertising he told jf c If Ir we can get the name of or this town before the tue public it will wl jump from a small mal hamlet to a large and andI I city eIty We Ye have here the greatest climate in the world We have tT tl healthiest water supply a sur surrounding rounding country wealth a hOOi system that Yes I know all al that I can get all al lose lOSE facts from the pamphlets of any raI ate man in the town What hat I want ant t know is where I come In What hat da do d you want of a burglar Wi iv don dont t you see we want to ad j 4 I vertise the town We figured out that if U ve we could have a number of chicken fights or dog fights and then have some sensational raids rids on them by our police force we would get the name namo of our ourtown ourtown ourtown town in the papers Or If some famous baseball player prize fighter or race racehorse racehorse horse would proclaim to an Interested public that the fair and prosperous city of or Hasta Hata Manana was wa his home we would gain gin additional advertising It Itis I ItIs is for the same reason that we want a burglar Now if we could secure a criminal with wih the fame of at Tracy the outlaw the James brothers how would be the fame of our little city I But what do I get out of at It I 7 I in inquired Inquired Inquired Why Wh the Commercial club cub is willing willingto to pay you ou a month to arrange a series seres of mysterious robberies We want you tn tn SY y here two or three months a a some startling crime filch by n ieans ans of the connivance conn Iv Ivance r ance f r the police c t tn n be made mae mys terlo f in the Of course coure the policy po polk le are fixed they ai ain j n favor of the JA d campaign for they vant to see ou 0 town boom as a much as a anyone In 1 t we want you to work with wih them r Id d give them advice advice The Commercial club will wl make mae ar ari i with wih John Stanton Staton so that thatto to e will wi leave his window open next next night and the silverware in iny Inny Inconvenient ny y convenient place you may desh ate but In committing this robbery you ou must leave uve behind a number of at misleading clues Then when accord accordIng according cues accor Ing to agreement Mr Ir Stanton calls cals in inthe Inthe Inthe the police you must instruct them just how judging from your our previous ex cx experience In beIng hunted is the best way to trace these thee clues so s as to make the ease case cae the most mysterious Of course the local papers will wi make much of the baffling burglary and we hope hop the papers paper in the largo large cities cites will wi be attracted by the unusual and mysterious aspect of the case cae As soon goon as the larger papers lose Jose interest in that burglary burglar we will wi make arrange arrangements arrangements ments with some other members of the Commercial club for tor another robbery You can Interpose the straight burglar burglaries ies lea with wih holdups bonk bank robberies and ad any other interesting rIme crime that in will attract attention your judgment wl Well el the burglary burglar game started stared with wih t i a grand hurrah hurh I drew OO expense n money for a burglar kit ki in tn spite spie of the Commercial clubs cluba protest that as the windows would be left open for me I need the tools for I explained to the club cub members member that the te work must appear to be that of an ex ax expert exper pert per On the first frt night excursion which was sas wa made to Mr house I cleaned up 20 worth of ot silverware 87 cents in cash cah and ad a Teddy bear bea This was followed by several other house housebreaking ho housebreaking se breaking exploits the mysterious as aspect aspeCt s of which drew a 1 few notices from the larger lager papers so that the members member of the robbery and advertising clique were enthusiastic At an a enthusiastic meeting of the Commercial club a few nights later after giving me a vote of ot thanks for formy formy formy my excellent and efficient burglarizing it i was wag decided that I should rob rb the Citizens Stater bank Of Ot course I I im irs immediately immediately mediately put in a plea for an expense account of 20 for or dynamite special drills dris and ad other tools but Mr Ir Kenton the president of the bank bank objected on the grounds that although he was per perfectly perfectly willing to allow aHo his bank to be robbed he want it to tobe be blown up upI It I was wa suggested suggested that the expense ot of repairing the bank bak could be charged to the advertising campaign account but Mr 11 Kenton insisted that he like to have his private papers and ledgers blown all al over ov r town Finally a compromise was effected In order to give a mysterious aspect to the case ese Mr Kenton wa was to make mae a mistake when setting the time lock of oC the safe on the night before the rob robbery robber robbery bery ber so that the door could be opened at 1 a a m At the appointed hour I Iwas Iwas Iwas was to break into the bank open the safe without harming haring it i take tae takeout put out the money then time lock for 9 a am a am m and leave Of course the safe would be found locked in proper style the next morning moring and ald when it was wa opened there would be great geat surprise on find finding finding ing part of the money gone The problem problem problem lem for solution then would be how could the thief have bave extracted the money when the president of the bank had set the time lock the night before and had found It in proper working or order order order der the next morning In order for me to understand thor thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly the inner workings of the time i lock Mr Kenton had to take me around to the bank a few mornings later before his came down and explain to me all aU about the safe On the night or rather morning moring of the great geat bank bak robbery I set st out prop properly properly properly erly masked and armed about fifteen minutes before 1 As I stole along the street I noticed eyes peeping out from behind the curtains in the windows of the Commercial club cub Of course coure every everyone ever everyone who in the secret wanted one was wa a glimpse of the robber who in this case ese they considered neither was bold nor norba bad ba After a few tew minutes work on the safe I opened the door and ad beheld as nice a layout of gold silver and bank banknotes banknotes banknotes notes as a ever met a eye But at that point the plans of at the te Commercial went far out of at plumb In place of taking a a merely nominal sum which was wa to be returned to the bank president at the end of the te month I took about in fact tact all al I could carry carS and also took tok the a a m train trIn for the Mex Mexico MexIco ico leo line linc lne Although I left lef Hasta Rata Manana with wit nearly nealy in cash and with all aU kinds of silverware jewelry and ad other junk I still sti regret that I could not stay sty long enough to collect my salary I had worked nearly a month mont in the town and within a few tew days my would have been due And that was wa the only 50 I ever honestly honest earned earne by robbing It I seems a pity not to have collected it it |