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Show SAFEMAKER VS. 8AFEBREAKER A numbor of years ago two prosperous pros-perous safohreakers succeeded in obtaining ob-taining employment in two different safe factories, worked over a period of years in tho various departments, gained all the Information that they desirod, and, subsequently working together, to-gether, managed to baffle the safe-makers safe-makers by their skill in opening complicated com-plicated safes in different jiarls of the country The police were at a loss to understand how safes had been opened, open-ed, and only upon the apprehension of the two men several years later was learned that tho jobs had not been "Inside" ones, as was origlnally suspectcd, .but had really been the work of two mon who had been Initiated Initi-ated into the mysteries of safecraft, and had put their knowledge to criminal crim-inal use. This put the safe-makers on their guard, and an exceedingly complicated com-plicated system was Immediately put into force, whereby not only waa the pedigree of every' workman looked Into In-to closely, but. the work among the employes was so separated that .no one man or two men could gather enough InTormation about a aafo to put It to dangerous uso afterward. Furthermore, when an employe is discharged, dis-charged, or when he voluntarily leaves his position, hi6 actions are watched, and, although the safe companies refuse re-fuse to discuss this particular point, it is a matter of record that any former form-er employe of a safe company, who is possessed of intimalo Information regarding re-garding the secrets of that company's safes, Is kept under constant surveillance. surveil-lance. As an Illustration of the thoroughness thor-oughness with which this Is done, there may (be cited the case of a former for-mer superintendent of one of the principal prin-cipal safe companies, who was discharged dis-charged eight years ago for intoxication, intoxi-cation, who subsequently sought and obtained a position as superintendent of an Iron foundry in the Middle west, who has now held that position for tho last seven years, who has dono his work well, and who is yet kept under the eye of a detective in the safe company's pay. There Is not the slightest reason to doubt tho man's integrity, but as has been suggested sug-gested by tho man's employer, who knows his superintendent is boing-watched, boing-watched, tho safe company seems unwilling un-willing to take the sllghest chance. George Jean Nathan, in Harpers Weekly. |