Show > I Y t I KING OF SAFEBREAKERS Marvelous Delicacy of Hearing Pot I sessed by Milner James I i Milner James was the most artistic safebreaker In the business said Lecocq the detective Ho Is dead now lie opened In his time over 700 safes without tools or gunpowder solely by working out the combination with his delicate and patient fingers iII i-II took mo a year ho once said to learn the trick of picking combinations combina-tions I studied all the locks there were and I iiad three safes of different makes to piaotico on The car Is the I most Itnnoitnnt factor In my method and It must be held tight against tho safe door on a lino with tho tumblers I When the knob of the lock is turned I slowly and one of the tumblers reach Ics I-cs the notch corresponding to the first number of the combination tho tumbler tum-bler will fall with a little click Care must be taken not to displace this tumbler You keep on trying the knob back and forth gently till each of the tumblers drops Then tho door opens Hardly one man In a thousand has an car delicate enough for this work and to be a success at It youve got to give up tobacco and alcohol |