| Show half an hour with burglar billa SAFES are very easily opened itami eight to dmn mens safes william gilligan the man who was bast week arrested and sentenced to hirty days in the county jail for having burglars tools in his possession is of quite a talkative disposition especially so when newspaper men ire not around in company with sheriff fowler an n reporter called upon mr dilligan Jil ligan and for halt an hour had quite a conversation with the gentle uan of the jimmy at first he was a tittle a modest about saying anything which was to appear in print but wile ii ae learned that nis name hud already one forth to to the world tn rough the columns of the he conclude ti 10 talk the information drawn forth oy a number of queries is as follows 1 ara dl years of age and was born in he of now york I 1 came west shortly batore christmas I 1 came to tio fo by way of ogden and sat lake ibid when my thirty days are up I 1 mihall jo aaa again I 1 dont know of but one or two bat are bursar proof it dont pay afe manufacturers to make them burg aar proof few safes are ruined by dres dont amount to anything and ll 11 jur occasionally break open 1 bate their sales be very large L burglar is a sate manufacturers best briend it dont cost anything to warrant a safe to be burglar proof but chere is an understanding between the arious companies that alfes shall not oe burglar proof A bus mesa man goes and buys a safe and some burglar comes along and it open for him the represent akiyo of another company comei alone and says 1 I told you that safe uy account you ought to have bought ne of mine the business maj buys jume other kind of a safe and after a A hilo perhaps that is broken open all ihil makes business good for the safe manufacturers if one company mabeb A small improvement in their safe the jaher companies follow suit about the best safe now manufactured afi the drop back lock che deabold Di abold ranks next and the dall urban I morris herron and clements are all good safes A burglar does not require a great many toola for opening a aate A kit on eiste of a couple of chisels a couple jf punches a 5 pound copper pledge hammer a steel bolt a 4 inch ip a couple of inch drills a couple f inch drills a maccine for going over t ie combination knob to used as a tt bow pipe and an oil can powder is never used by experts excel in a case of emergency one of these old time front lock chere the bolt shoots out is easily opened A g inch hole is drilled at the aide of the combination the ratchet being used on the bombina ajon knob to give force and a inch ap inserted alter which a steel bolt is driven in against the dog or detent the dog is forced away from the slots in the tumblers the handle is turned and the safe ia opened it ottber were used the safe would be ruined but when a safo is opened by this method it can ba repaired for a bew dollars when the bent bar is straightened and an iron plug driven in the hole and rubbed oyer with a little faint the safe is just as good as ever I 1 tell you it aint right to use powder and ruin mens safes and then it makes to much noise you are liable to get taught where a safe has a back lock the knob is knocked off and a inch punch introduced trod on the top of the broken spindle by bitting your punch one or bood blows jiin a sledge you trill drive the spindle back through the tumblers which breaks them and allows the bolts to be thrown back in conjunction with the moving of the handle if there are inside doors you drill a hole right into alie tey hole insert your punch into this hole and with one blow of your hamm eryou knock the back of your bos off and nothing con bonts you except aba treasury bos aud dball wooden drawers which can easily be broken with common carpenters dat chisel your hammer is muffled and you have leather caps on fiur punches some of the latest burglar proof manufactured I 1 a ye strong boxes into which the combinations are placed in these boxes are manufactured on the same principle aa these cages pointing to the jail cages chese strong boxes are composed of two to three steel plates one of I 1 them being chilled and the lock is right Y on the back of the last plate there is gothing left exposed ou this back plate out the bolts the being concealed by a small box which is held by four small bolts on the back plate you drill your hole as close as possible to the spindle so that you can set your punch cusido of this box your punch will then be placed on the dog and giving three good blows with the fl ledge and your strong box is open where the steel is harder than your drill you have to introduce your team blow bips pips which throws a steady flame of fire on the parts to be drilled and in a few minutes the steel is cotter than your drill the finest wok wo k is to open a safe by paring the outer skin of the finger anil claing the sensitive dirtion against th combination this means of opening a safe is very difficult requiring sever lt hours and there are only one or two men in the united states who can d it of course there aro many other ways of opening saes nut you can put ic down that any man who us powder is twenty years behind the times the afes manufactured ly the various companies differ somewhat and slightly different methods have to bo adopted every new sate that comes out has to be carefully studied and the weak points found out bank vaults are very difficult to pet a lun less you can tol anlin there ia one eafe iri the union national bank at denver which is burgl ir proof it ia a ball within a ball and revolves once in twelve hours it does not remain in one position long for the burglar to work at it it ia built on the same principle as the revolving cages ia tho bialt lake jail j I 1 know spike hennesey and kid mc coy by sight they have become well known to the public through their connection with a dramatic company there are a grat amny m n who are not known outa de of certain ciral who know a great deal more about ih business than they and would be gla I 1 to get a chance to work in the same w ay its a hard life to follow and you run a great many risks of getting shot or nabbed by the police of courna henny and mccoy have their safe all prepared pre A spring is placed in the safe and when the explosion takes place the throws the door open sayi yon would bend mo over a paper an account of mv ar rest and a piece of chewing tobacco we agreed the iron door of the jail was swung lackland we walked forth to ponder on the ways of men |
