Show OE HONEST er ot T Jl CS ills his I Je ru t THE SAFE DIn NOT No HOLD BOLD RE REPUTED REPUTED WEALTH After a Nights Work Breaking Into a Safe the Mod t Sum of Was w s Found to to Be the Entire Contents Con Contents Contents tents of the Box Disgust Was So Complete That Crooks Reformed Inter Ocean In iii p group grup p around the th table were four for bookmakers r a well well known known horse horge Owner ani two hy others who Wh be classed cla Sed as just just sporting men The two were veite W both short stocky fellows felloW and had listened to the th horse owners story genat racetrack steal that never got Into thu th newspapers with evident interest At the conclusion of the story the Others looked at the two quiet men menas men menas menas as though they expected a tale tate from that They that sur stir surprised them The first stocky st eky man mane e t his glass took a long breath and anti S f said sald T I was burgling you were what 1 asked one of the bookmakers When I was w s a burglar a house housebreaker housebreaker breaker a 80 thief if that suits you OU bet better better ter went ent on the other What I want to say he sold said saI apparently not not it the surprised looks of the others other is In that t when I was a a burglar I never had any idea that I would graduate from the business I expected to end my days either in a a state hotel or in some respectable citizens house with a bullet through my breather breath That I 1 would ever come come to be a member of the I community on n an equal line with oth others ers never occurred to me in my wildest st dreams But Im a pretty de decent deCEnt cent su rt of a citizen now and the th good br I swit suat igi eyed every J r I did U il J tell In tt lt u right how now Ir 1 l acas a ase of reformation or ot remorse 5 It was a plain cae CiU of di fled with hard hardluck hardlUck luck that even e ev n you rt rr rack ra k fellows td like edi 1 I iM always aha s pretty lucky and ana nd attributed it and do now I to my common comm n sense I never picked a pocket in n my 13 r life and I never nev r did a i or a sneak ak job f l 1 kept away from small b business because of I the percentage a man and the very stasH small profit that accrue from I such work I never undertook a job jobin jobIn jobin in fact that I plan n out for days and RIM sometimes weeks ahead and I Ij j never novar went Into a thing unless there woe a hI haul to be bem made de The result re was w S that I in my fifteen fifel years as a thief I spent but one and anti a few extra I months in jail That Th l was at Danne Dannemora Dannem morn mora m ra and anif if f any prison in the world will she a man man enough eno tha thas s the one Nervy But Obstinate Well VeU Im getting away from my tale tala I had a partner that Ill call Red He Re was a big powerful t chap with a shork of red hair thai would put the stin to shame sham His processes pro ware pretty slow buthe was the most I obstinate cuss cuss that ever lived He was wasa wasa a splendid pal for any man that could do the tile thinking and wanted a man to put his plans into operation I His nerve was waa and although Ive een en him in some seine so J jetty es I never SQ saw when I was waa wa afraid Red thid 15 1 met with a small degree d gr of success during th win wintel ter tel that I am going to tell aluiK occur occurred occurred red rOO lInt But we were both livers in our our idle moments and it finally got to where here a stroke of business was necessary Neither Red nor I had planted anything and I was w s casting casti about for a Ilk when I got a note from Crom Big Jute Jule D a French crook whom I had once met in Canada Benoit B was in Ih jail in Philadelphia for stealing amans watch on a street streetcar streetcar streetcar car A clover clever fellow this Frenchman who wrecked a most moat promising line of plans plaits pl by stooping to pocket picking When he stole the watch which landed him in jail he had several thousand dollars soaked soaRed away and a couple coup e of I likely jObs j bs on l hand But he was as a thief by instinct He saw a chance to get the watch and anti although he need it and want it he resist the temptation to try and get It Well Yell Benoit wrote that he lie wanted to soC set me m and tind as he had treated me ma well iselt on another occasion I 1 ran over to Philadelphia and saw him in prison He wanted money mone to stake take a lawyer and azal I gave him Then he told me metha that tha he had b d planted a rich job in a small Pennsylvania town which Ill call Hollis Homs but that his arrest would pre prevent prevent prevent vent his carrying it out He lie said aid that in the Hollis railroad station there was wasa a safe fe in which at certain times In the year largo large sums of money to be used in paying oft the placed temporarily and that tha If I maneuvered around irb lm no dIfficulty irl hiU 1 t the rIght tIme It wa li he g ana add as I ha hall Leire s I dI I decided to take a run rUn up u it t and nd look oyer the ground J 1 t K 2 C in the nol Bore of Drummer mer merI I picked i a tt r and found that lr ap a mining in town town not a thousand mIles from Scranton that there were ere 1500 inhabitants 00 90 per cent of whom were and that the place was on track railroad running out frt t Scranton It looked like liken a good thing so I saw Red and ex ox explained matters mattery matte Jo to o him He agreed to join me at I telegraphed him and to bring tp what h was necessary neary in inthe inthe inthe the way of tools toils etc This much ettl ettlI I 1 started for Cor Hollis Hullis arriving tl e at nt night My first play was at atthe atthe atthe the station st Uon agent I represented my m myself self as the agent a ent of or a suspender house houses seeking s a lodging for Cor the night You can go up to Cam Cain Howes he h said arid add get g ta a bed but if yoUre oure a suspender man I r advise you to dig out at once These The Turks here hold up their clothes rope fI I tried trie to td get got a at the safe Inside the fellow f no had it all piled up with books arid and papers and I set 6 Of it it St So 5 I went treat w t up to Cam Howes and anti got a R good nights rest Of he arrival f of a stranger in town was a matter of more or less comment but my ray suspender n agent yarn carried me file along and I had two days in which to size up the situation I learned that the station agent closed up at 9 every night and that he opened up again between 6 0 and 7 j What Whatever over ever er freigHt there was on the road rood went through in the daytime so o othere there was little danger danser of any tion from rom railroad raUt ad hands The safe saCe at atthe atthe atthe the station was the only one in town and anti so faras farah far as I T could learn there had hadn n er been b en a robbery in the place From drunken miners whom I ed I found f out that pay day was not far f r off of and so 50 decided that the time was tea ripe and am telegraphed Rot Rod to come on with a full line Vine of vf suspenders Red ned came caine with Ith the th suspenders and also brought my outfit among other things a a half dozen of giant POW der d r and a a dark darl lantern We stored all this aVnY iam m Howes and then waited for or the arrival of the dough The second night Ight after aCter Red came caine a man arrived who was w pointed p r ted out to me as the tile treasurer of the This Thlu man main came in o the night t twin ln took a package pack ge wrapped in heavy paper at the ends from his valise TalIse handed tl it to the station st agent took a ai i lpt for f r t 4 tf dad and d then tl ri went up the thel road l ad toward Howes Red and anti I just waited w to see the agent put the pack package package age in the safe sate and then theon scooted up to the hotel betel had dinner and after a cou cots of guise es pf f pool ol went t to to our room o 1 We the situation for or an nit hour bour It was t t to us that thaI the money had d The time had come cometo cometo cometo to strike Red and I congratulated c h at each sech other and agreed a that of all the thes soft s ft jobs we uc lied ever mer struck this was the easiest Up to that time there had never been n a watch on tie t e station statton at night the question was would there be bea bea bea a guar guard now that the money had bad ar arrived arrived rived We can handle handlo two men said Red and 1 I therell be bemore bemore bemore more than that It was Vas midnight when We w started out We left by the window using a rope to descend d end Once on an n the ground w we struck for a patch of woods T back backof backof backof of the hotel betel For an n n hour ye we e w our way through theise th woods weedS W OO until we were about a Id f mMe mite own down the rail raU railroad I road track Then we uS W went wext out into the open ged cr the tho track tr and came tame straight back until we were directly the sta station station tion lion All AU of or this maneuvering m ri vering was to avoid anybody who might be he abroad We care to See on or to t have anyone see us 1 was banking oh on on this job to put m tn sue on Easy street for lea a couple of years 7 ars and an I mean m to take a chance Alongside A of the track we found fo rd a hand car which some S laborers had bed h d left loft and we placed this on the tr K In itt case it became necessary to make a hasty retreat Then we Wf tackled the station There a man mall on guard gudi It took two twists tW to door and two more to get into the agents ag private office Red removed everything from the safe and wet w wit r then saw for fIX the Uie first time that it was one of those thos lock Jock affairs Now although these time lock sales safes are I know from experience that tb t they are some sometimes sometimes times mighty hard to get at aj However this was such a crude cude looking affair that I anticipated no trouble Red threw a light on the lock and I began hegan I working at I I tried ev tV evary I cry ary device I knew to regulate the lock lockso lockso lockso so that it would i open but it H was wa no use My lly professional pride was touch touched touched ed od for it was uan the first t naf that I ever eyer got a good whack at that yield to my persuasions pr U J I had all kinds of or time and yet I do a p thing I finally jumped tip p wh wt h an oath Blow Bl W her up Rod Red I mid td I can open onen ope tt t Hold on how boi Charley Clarley said my pal Before we blow it up suppose sup you try and find otil O t what time the lock JO k is j set sot for ThIS was a reasonable reasonable suggestion anti and I adopted ib It I studied the mech mechanism for fot a long iong time and then with the aid of the agents lead pencil and anda a telegraph blank T I figured it out o t that the lock was waa set dOt i t for 6 5 oc oclo But half this thle page tute fe 6 B said R Hi I w rh i I told the th result of my ray 5 I alm almI Ou v i 1 I know it I 1 sid YO have to blow her up Red I Blowing the Stile Safe Well Weil we drilled drilled a it a hOle the safe got our powder In lri l edV V r ft the whole thing up with a couple of Cam Howes Howes blankets that wed brought along and andI let I h her he r go It seemed to tom me nih that tJi t the racket must have aroused the dead in inthe inthe the cemetery but although lIh We watched outside for fifteen tau no one came cameI I hope ho we dm blow bl up the money mane said Red as we ws we crawled back backi i into the T TWe TL We As Asa a matter r of fact tact the theold theold old oki safe sale stood firm as arock a rock We do d much more m re than peel off on some of the paint point We W gaVe pv her a a second and a 8 harder dose with rio no better re results re suits and I was so disgusted then that I declared I was uh as gom g to quit the job Not much said Red RedI I told you yon he he was an cuss theres a for fortune fortune fortune tune in that safe and I quit until I get it if I have to tD tug the old thing off of with me t it precisely pre I stUd said as an idea struck me me Lets take it away Then I glanced at the pounds of steel and shook my head It seemed med impossible Are you 3 OU sure sute you OU dun can get et the t h e com cern combination Ideation once the is off ff asked TIed Red Sure thing thinS I r Plied Well we cant ean t take it on the hand handcar handcar handcar car because at 6 wed probably find ourselves in some town lown along the theline theUne theline line Une We must get and wagon take it as far j lt inthe as we can before bore 6 o lock The further off we get the safer we are I 1 was surprised surp 1 d excellent reasoning on the part pa t of 0 my usually dull partner but I found put ut that there was w wa more behind the Job for Cor him than there was for m me The ques question question tion came caine up at itt this jurt Where were iere ere we going goin to get a horse horde and wag wagon wagon wagon on We decided to sally forth at once in search of an outfit So we w locked lO ked up th the station and anti went to the nearest barn Red got a horse and harness out without making much noise and in the barnyard we uc found a gl cart The racket that that ar ar ihen hen en we dragged it out shattered Ifs es but Hollis Homs was sleeping sl no one disturbed us We got gol the th rig over to the station and then th n tackled the safe It was no hard j push it on its roll ron rollers ers era to the Ute door and out oh the platform but our trouble began begun when we tried to lift it in the Wagon yag n It was itUs a 8 four foot lift and struggle as we would we weI get it aboard OnSe it came I down on the index finger of Reds left kit lefthand kitI lefthand hand smashing it to a pulp Red let letout letout letout I out a yawp like Uke the howl of a wildcat and I felt the th chills hill chasing channg each other up my back bark for ten mm Utes under h while the finger anil P h w e tackled the he safe again i a e Carrying CarrY Off e Safe J i 1 Well it it yaS n f l job My M y clothes were er sy my Bright shoulder wrenched and lI mj Tt bones ached be before b before fore we got i Al ad Red was ns a crip cup cripple cripple cuppie pie and dt Ufos going like the jumping t lut when we saw sa the safe up w taJ on we uc forgot all about our J ko I It was after 4 1 and vie it haft l ht ir less lass than two hours I to get safely safIy Ii aty y The horse was used to plow so he refused to run runor runor runor or gallop We Ve him until our QUI QUIre respective re p tive out buthe uthe de declined dined to This is gait It was mad maddening maddening maddening dening but there was nothing n to do about it it so 50 we let him cut out his own pace We Ve made straight for the e woods to I the north of the town and followed the only road rOM there was through them We gone amIle before it began to torain torain torain rain The roOd road was wan heavy with dirt and as the mull began to form the work became 11 r f rf th the horse I will say for the animal that he had pa patience patience tience if he have hav sp and we got along wen well under the circumstances Shortly before 6 we had to guest guess gu the time for I watch while we were w re trying to set the safe on the wagon we came cam ton oln open spot alongside the road and dumped the safe out It fell felt with tho thu door down dow 1 as luck would have it and it took us fifteen minutes to UK get it over eves on its side We Wenet next net started the th horse and cart C rt along the road If pursued we knew that the wagon wa tracks would uld be followed and once we e got the money we meant to strike out through the woods on foot Well when I thought it must be 6 I went to work on the safe sofe while Red Reid went yards down the road rood to The minute I touched the lock I knew the tim tm clutch cl had been released relea and it lb ib was a mat matter matter matter ter of working out the combination In ten minutes I had it arid 1 pulled up the door I whistled for Red fled and as we Va gazed on the precious packet p ck t inside we forgot |