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Show WANTED TO SHOW THEM. Young Man Took Securities to Demonstrate Dem-onstrate to Bank How Easy It Was. Now York. By tho confession ol ilonry A. Leonard, n bung clerk In he employ ot Hallo & Stlcglltz, brokers brok-ers at 30 Broad atreot, tho mystery df tho robbery on Wednesday of laRt week of $359,000 worth of securities from tho National City bank was fully cleared up Monday. The prisoner, who is only 24 years old, and who has previously borno tho reputation ot an Industrious nnd thoroughly thor-oughly reliable clerk, made tho astounding as-tounding statement in his confession that he had planned and carried out his schomo of forgory nnd robbery, not from nny criminal motive, but Bololy to show by what n simple, device tho elnbornto safeguards of Now York banks could bo set nt naught. That thlB statement Is true Is In a measure corroborated by tho facts In tho casq and 1b tho bollof of tho young man's employers, by whom he was highly esteemed. |