Show safe crackers for show during a concersa conversation tion the other day in chicago acu ecu willian A pinkerton and chief of detectives lees of san francisco sir mr pinkerton Piu kerton said lie had been erroneously quoted by a st louis paper 2 per in in sayin saying that billy porter alias hilly i ay obrien tile the bank burglar had been put away for ten years in go germany ir As a matter of fact porter is a free man in an although he ought to be said mr pinkerton there viero ere sharp men in the pang and they vere N ere in making akini money rapidly by bringing inKing br yankee ingenuity and in proved tools to bear on the gernian Jer nian bank cafes they mere ir bested but only one of them frank buck was convicer porter was acquitted on a technicality and spike Henne lIenne sv tile brainy man mail of 0 the crowd escaped conviction by pro probing ing that lie was mas burn on a british ship and could not be surrendered to hie courts ati lanish when men got cot out of the laws clutches in the old country he rc returned turned to america and I 1 ran across libin iliin last fall in F frisco when lie he vis N as blowing a sit safe fe at california theatte theatre in tom davis play thel lie bad reformed but just the same game we are keep ing a weather eye on oil the move movements menta of tile the k kin ing of safe breakers breaker |