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Show Boy Burglar Picks Locks With Wire to Steal $1,500 ELGIN, ILL. A 15-year-old youth , who used a wire device to pick door locks and steal $1,500 in seven burglaries during the last year in Elgin was held by Elgin police. po-lice. He is Jack L. Glissman, 15, an 8th grade student in Elgin's Abbott junior high school. His brother, Richard, 25, also was arrested for breaking into a school-house school-house near Geneva. " v Jack was seized after he was seen ' flashing rolls of new dimes. Several dollars worth of dimes had been stolen from an apartment in the building where he lives. He admitted taking the dimes and also confessed six other thefts, police said. In gaining entrance, he used lengths of wire to loosen the bolts on door locks. |