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Show BURGLARS EMPLOY SCIENCE IN WORK Detective Declares Thieves Outstrip Jewelers in Use of Latest Inventions. Specla.1 Cable to The Tribune. LONDON. March 20. "A perfect arsenal arse-nal of burgjary tools" was found in the house of a man who was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labor for burglary. bur-glary. The outfit Included several slant cu-tters (made on ths lines of a sardlne-tin sardlne-tin opener and used for safe-cutting after a holo ha3 been drilled), blow-pipes, drills, and Jimmies, and cutters of all sorts "The fact Is," said a. high detective chief. In commenting on the matter, "that the offensive tactics of scientific burglars havo far outstripped manv of the defensive methods adopted by Jewelers, Jew-elers, their chief prey. A burglar, recently recent-ly sentenced, said in a burst of confidence confi-dence that It would hav been a fine Investment for the Jewelers of London. If they had retained him at a feo of $3000 a year to go the rounds of establishments establish-ments and point out the weak spoUs in their mothodB." Before attacking a Jeweler's shop, members of the pang, posing as news-venders news-venders or hawkers, watch, day after day, the methods of locking up at night and tho opening In tho morning. In one case in tho Wrc3t End. Che shop was protected pro-tected by a roller shutter, secured by a bolt three fceJt long. A member of the gang, after patient watching, learned where this bolt was kept during the day'. One day he secured It. The end close to the bolt head was filed nearly through, the incision hidden by grease and black lead and the bolt replaced from where it had been abstracted. For four days, night and. morning, watch was kept to see If the tamporlng with it had been detected. Then one night the bolt head was easily forced off wtth a Jimmy and as swiftly put down, and by tlie morning tho gang were the possessors of Jewels worth 515,000. |