Show OREAD D OF AGIC The safest place In th the tho world to hide lout lour OUr money from thieves thle out out- outside outside out outside side a bank Is la In a coffin Who says so Christopher Beck And who's Beck An expert on the psychology of under underworld orld superstitions Beck says 81 sa s ho he doubts If It theres there's a thief on earth who would pry open a coffIn encountered durin during 1 t a pillaging ing raid And Its It's a certainty that no professional burglar would go near It It Burglars also al o avoid ovoid house houses here they know a death has recently taken place Like the rest rea of us only more so they recoil from death and all things connected with stith Ith It Ed Howe the Kansas Hansas country phil phil- philosopher phil philosopher once said that while all peo peo- people people plo talk t too lO much he ho notices that e stun ery one grows strangely quiet as soon as th the con conversation drifts to Lo deathA de death th I A up check of police pollee records In tn Im- Im Important important Im Important cities shows va that very few pro professional criminals work stork Irk on the day of ot the month There Thero Is la reason to belle 0 thit hit the 13 superstition started In the underworld I Crooks are the most superstitious people on earth They are ore saturated I with queer beliefs In luck omens and the tho like I Few Tew housebreakers house have the cour cour- cour- cour courage ago age to rob a house where they find finda finda 0 a black cat eat lurking around the prem prints premises Even Esen 1 en more moro dreaded is a blind dog Most crooks have havo an unlucky num num- number num- num number number I ber which they the fear tear It Is the number of ot the policeman who ho ar- ar arrested ar arrested rested them tho the first time nr-j nr Suppose a crl crook Ok enters entera your home homeI I I In the dead of ot night It if ho he finds a aI I clock stopped he ho scarcely notices It I But Dut If It the tha clock stops while the burg burg- lar burglar Is at work hell he'll break Into a I burg I cold sweat eat and anti flee Into the night This superstition probably dates i back to 5 some mo tragedy that o a II crook while on a job Minor thieves thieves especially ets wm It the tho i w not st ui i 01 Of TUCK luck to steal a knife or lr rob a one armed man And nearly all crooks carry a I mascot the of which is la sUP sUP- sUPposed posed to be a 0 ring made mado from 01 a nail And so on until J a 0 book could be beSt b I written St nitten on tho subject Such a book should have R it good sale Profession Profession- al at criminal are a a separate breed of animal as III different from the law abiding as day Is la from night About the only thing they have In common with the tho rest of ot us Is an uneasy fear of the tho mysterious unknown Hence their susceptibility to superstition |