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Show WIGHT WATCHMAN IN BOTTLE Mow Cracksmen Were Foiled by Formaldehyde Placed Between Doors of Bank Vault. To a bank cashier with a taste for chemistry Is due the credit of a aimple yet highly efficient cash protector pro-tector and cracksman tamer. Several Sev-eral years ago Cashier Clark of the Corona State bank. South Dakota, hit ipon the idea that If he could place a bottle of some strong chemical between be-tween the outer and Inner doors of Abe vaults Its fumes might retard the work of safe breakers or perhaps frighten them away. A quart bottle of formaldehyde was Immediately given a position as a silent night watchman between the doors of the , vault. For about five years the "yegg doo- i (or" kept unobtrusive guard. Finally j early In November, 1910. the test ! fame. A couple of professional cracks- I Jnen entered the town. Two charges ' of nitroglycerin were used on Cashier Clark's safe that night. The first one ,dld little damage, but the second wrecked both the outer and Inner .doors, tore the latter from their ihlnges and threw them out into the vault and against the small safe and eafcly deposit boxes. The "yeggraen" did not wait to wreck the Inner safe, however, for at the same moment th "yegg doctor" responded to a hurry call and the fumes of a full quart of formaldehyde filled the room. Choking Chok-ing and gasping, with tears streaming; from their eyes, the criminals scrambled scram-bled out the way they bad come In and lift trucks down the peaceful country highway that fairly sizzled. For days after the explosion the fumes of formaldehyde were so strong that a person could not breathe In the vault. Technlcnl World Magazine. |