Show KING OF SAFE BREAKERS marvelous del cacy of hearing po hessed by milner james allner james was the most artistic safe breaker in the business said lecocq the detective he Is dead now he opened in his time over safes without tools or gunpowder solely by working out the combination with his delicate and patient fingers it took me a year he once said to learn the trick ot picking bombina alons I 1 studied all the locks there were and I 1 had three sates of different makes to practice on the ear Is the most important factor in my method and it must be held tight against the sate door on a line with the tumblers when the knob of the lock is turned slowly and one of the tumblers reach es the notch corresponding to the first number of the combination the turn bier 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 the door opens hardly one man in a thousand has an ear delicate enough for this work and to be a success at it you ve got to give up tobacco ana a cohol |