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Show I BURGLAR VERSUS SAFES. 'I 1 'OPEN SESAME" TOOLS INVENTED BY 1 THE.PROFESSION. I ' Tl All i:nurU n r the Hurclar-rrunf Safe. H makcM ItrfouteJ ljr tho Ute of Mew f JinplrmriiU and Dynamite. The mechanical advancement of tha 1 go ling made it necessary Hint every surglar of standing should hnve a lino "'kit" of toois Thoy arc rondo, usunlly I iy a mechanic who Is a member of tho jaug, or an outstdo machinist with an . tlnstlc ccnaclcncc, who asks no quos- i '. lions. A "kit" wilt cost several hundred ; Jollari. j An outflt Is mado up of jimmies, drills nd punches, clamps, jacks, slcdgcham- J nc, brace and bits, laddor of rope or 9 ,jpQ 1 l PI.UDOKIIAHMF.H AND WKDOE. f Htccl wire, wedges, chisels, air-pump, i ?owder,and oil-can, platc-cultcr,skcleton 1 -leys, and clubs and weapons of assault '. 1 tnd defense. - y Tho ordinary bousobreakor. says tho j S. Y. 1'ribune, uses only a part of tbcBo f .ools, and works in tho night. Houses J July arc attacked where the prospect Tor plunder Is. good. This information I 'a gleaned from tho nowspaper accounts jit f weddings, balls, dinner-parties, and fK tdvcrtlscmcnls, by watch lug tho bouses Sf "d from gossipy servants. A window -tB s preferred .tb a door as a means of en- V trance, as It. is easier to open. JB Tbcro arc many methods employed by A 1 burglars tb open a safe, depending on m I :hc way it is put together. Their ob- 9 icct Is to break down and loosen things. I I vv r-' ,' ,---; I HATCHET DltlLI.. I In the o'd "knob" safe, which was IB covered with bolts connecting two Iron a plates, powder was blown through tho 1 keyholo and tho door lifted from the jS binges by explosion. Then the keyhole f M was bidden in ono of the knobs, but tho i burglar did not look for it. Ho mado a J a hole In the door with a drill nnd put in i Tfi tho Dowdcr. Safes were mado with Y JIUnOLAn's VLATB-CUTTEIl. Iioltsln tho door tnat could be sprung into tho framowork on all sides with a Iiplndlc connected with a T-handle on tho exterior. This was thought to bo a puzzler to tho burglar.but this mechanical mechani-cal gcplus knocked off tho handlo with a hammer, softened the spludlo with a lamp and blqw,-plpo, drilled it out, put in the explosive which carried nway bolts, framework, and all. Safcmakcri defied tbo burglars by making a sals' of alternate layer of iron botlor-platcs and drill-proof 'steel, hardened so that they would turn the edges of a drill. Tho burglars.taught tbo safomakcrs a lesson so quickly that it made them dlz-The dlz-The burglars Invented tbo plato-cut-lor, a powerful tool, but did not patent it. Holes wcro bored in tho outsido V iron plato of tho door and the cutter was fe fixed in place. Tho blado of tho cutter H& "was kopt well oiled, and the handle was Dr turned until a round bnlo was cut In through tho iron plato and tho diso was I removed. This exposed tho first steel W plate. This plate was cxtrcmoly hard W tnd therefore brittle, and the cutter bo- I ing removed tbo steel was easily broken with a chisel and soft metal hammer. The motal would resist a drill, but -rould not withstand repented shocks. The alternate plates wero 'thus cut and 1 broken until tbo .bolts were reached, and ' Zho safo conld then be opened easily. A YAHIBTV OF JIMMIEO. Then safes wcro mado todefoat tbo plate-jultor, plate-jultor, and tho burglars abandoned Its jso for a while. Thoy tried something sasicr, filled tho cracks of the safe with putty, except at tho top for about two J Inches. At this point was attached a J tubo from n pump, which exhausted the I sir in tho safo croatod a vacuum, nnd by removing a little putty In the bottom , :rack, as much powder wotrid bo blown i in by tho air rushing in to fill the , vacuum as was necessary to blow opon I tho doors. j On tho portable burclnr-proof safes .ho door; nio opened without explosives I iy stripping off the Iron bands with . 'lamps and Jimmies and forcing wedges uto the cracks with n powerful Jack- ' screw. The first wedge Is like a knife- it j4 blado, and the stzo is Increased until the door flics from its hinges. Another or O j . r COLLKCTION OF SKF.I.ETO.V KET8). 1 lool Is the "drag." This is n heavy iteel bar upon wbich a tbroad has been :ut, and It is operated with a stout handle, five or six feet long, to glvo great lovcrage. A holo is first bored through the door or back of the safe. A thread is cut In tho plato to correspond with that In tho "drog." Tho tool is turned until the opposite sido of tbo lafo is reached, when a great pressuro Is put on tbo long handle something will have to bust. It Is usually tho door. Sometimes when tho doors promise a bard task tho burglar reaches the top of tho safe and bores a holo thcro to Introduce Intro-duce tho powder. Flro-proof safes ara about as troublcsomo to a burglar as raokiug a plpo to a sailor. Ills tools go through tho metal and other material llko old cheese., It was thought when the tlmo-lock was I invented which unlocked tho doors automatically at n certain time, that tho burglar would havo to "take a back seat." Ho was quiet for a brief period and kept his experiments secret. Then all of a sudden time-lock safes bogau to Oy open nil over tho land. The burglar had discovcicd that by exploding dyna-mlto dyna-mlto on tho outsido of tho door over tbo clock the door would bulgo in, and tbo "" NUTEItS AND CAN'S. ' forco of tho shock would break tho spring or disarrange tbo mechanism so that It would run down and turn tho bolts. Tho samo thing happened in clocks that were constructed to unlock the safe, when stopped. Tho burglars bavo an easy tlmo with timo-Iocks on doors, becauso It has been shown that dynamite beats tbcm nil. When a heavy charge of dynamite has been used tho lock has been, In several cases, btowu entirely off tbo Inside of tho door. One tho clovcrcst pieces of work dono by burglars is picking combination locks. Tharo aro few who can do it. It is dono by tbo sense of touch and ggl - ' M mi iii i iiaa' us ! "'VkanTrrqs SIOItT rnOWLEllS OUTFIT. bcarlng.aftcrlong practice with locks of every stylo. With all tho inventions that havo been mado it Is admitted that there aro no safes that aro absolutely burglar-proof, provided tlmo enough !s given to tho thief to work at them. The object of safo manufacturers hns been to keep thieves from getting through tho doors between Bnturday night and Monday morning, and this has been done by masslvo blocks of metal and stones surrounding sur-rounding tho vaults with nil kinds of alarms and wntchmen armed to tho teeth. |