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Show If CROOK DEFIES THE I DEAD LINE ORDER Walks Into Great Building In Wall Street District And Gets Away With $20,000 in Loot. CLERK SAVES GREAT BOND BY REMOVAL It Was Not There When Th:cf Opener the Safe Thai Had Held It. I f i' " Hfjjj , fonc loblier, with wizard con- tro1 o ,,ir combination looks of safe. BjK walked into the V all etreet sone last I r week and walked out aR.iln with more timn $200,000 worth of lool He did the K, trick In an hour and gol cleaY away. H 1 The robbery occurred n the Equitable H'1 I building, No. 12" Broadway. Thursday H, p fvnlng November 20. Thin la In the yerj heart of the district over whidb ' B '; jj ai,t) Inspector Byrnes established his B jjj famous deadline for crooks Thr dead Hi. fj line order worked well In those day. B i There is n-- public record of Its ever hav- t II ing hern revoked B' jjj After the d'. activities, th office. V. ( ii the Equitable bu lifting are given over H i lioiwren the hours and 6 and 7 lo tin- women who clean them Told i Fine Story HfjjB Soon after the women hnd bcgU'l B j il putting the on wife in order on Thurs- B) j if day evening, a man hurrledh entered Ow B ! open door and. remarking he had for- j i j' molten something when half way horn"1 B' r busied himself with the lock of one of i asvdrai safes He threw his coat over H i ih' back of a cha.ii- nearby and worked away undisturbed tor several riflnutefl B I; The charwomen paid little attention to B r him. believing he was an employe itisn- K it j1 Ing back 10 remedy some oversight. Hi I Then be said. "No it's not In here." BH I. and wandered Into a prfvatd office bl Br li ,no mana.Tei. at tiie far end of the flooi. fT h There he remained half an bur or so. Hf! J He solved the pUSZlc of the safe lock, HT L sjd when he walked out he took Ti:h B i R him more than $20,000 worth of Jewelry nd secuiitles. HLtj ! ' Not content with this hail the robb. r Hj 'L( jtopped in at another suite of offices in B i he building. The door stood Invitingly B t- pcn. and he was soon juggling the com- a binatlpn of another safe. This ield I readily to his touch, but he found noth tig Inside of value io him Saved His Boss 10 000 l That very morning the clerk who her. Hi! I r haixe of this safe bad removed $10,000 H I JJbeity hond and placed it in a Safety il deposit box. The clerk's employe) whs) I had put the hond in bis iaf several Jnonths ako. Ii now on hit way to .lupnn. Will doubtless be gtad to learn Ib'jt tl .-caution .-caution Of his employe mioI htm $10,090 (luring his absent e I When Deputy Police Commissioner fjuggenheini heard about the robberj on reaching his offices on Friday mornin? be t once called up headquarters in S ugprfslngl) shorl time the rooms ncid H n I a large number of detectives The r-- Hf suit of their efforts baa not iioi-n made HLI I public. When a reporter ol The VVoud Inquired on Monday at the precinct police station be was told notbinc was known there of the robber there was no entr. of It on the desk blotter |