Show R 0 ST givance bi vance werft 0 public the great express company robbery IT T WAS in the early eighties that one of the cleverest crooks in the country stood outside of the wired encho ure tire of an adams express office and looked longingly at a pac package kage of 0 bank notes on a shelf beyond his reach it was near the noon hoier and most of the clerks were preparing to go out tor for lunch the crook noticed that some of them wore linen dusters and that when they left the enclosure they doffed coffed these office coats and tossed them to one tide side it did not take this gentleman long to come to his determination the door leading to the enclosure was partly opened lie he slipped inside and tossing his hat bat into a corner hastily put on an ink smeared linen duster that had been discarded no ile stuck a pen behind his ear and in that guise readily resembled one of the regular clerks ile he was in the enclosure less than a minute and when nhen he departed he carried with him a package of bonds which was estimated to be worth A few days after this it w was as reported that a man entered one of the oldest and wealthiest banks in the city of philadelphia and by means of a sharpened umbrella pulled out a package of money from behind one of the grilled windows and made his big escape with it the sum was placed at 1000 but th that at was the least part of it the audacity of the theft was what caused consternation la in the financial district if such things were possible then no institution would be safe these two cases were much talked about and they were especially interesting to francis kelly the famous bank detective who patrolled patr oled the financial district in philadelphia lit and whose beat included the custom house the sub treasury and the famous banking house of drexel co the philadelphia branch of drexel morgan co kelly was not only a keen student of human nature but he knew the ways of the get rich quick members of the criminal fraternity ne ile discussed the matter with one of tila his associates rd id be willing to stake my reputation on the fact that both of these jobs were done by chauncey johnson he be said 1 I 1 know his methods like a book and I 1 dont know another nan man in the united states who could have pulled them off as neatly as johnson kelly had bad been in the united states secret service and had also been chief of detectives in philadelphia but at that time was in the employ of the houses in the financial district ue ile acted as he be otten often said as a pre antl v e the bank crooks knew that he was on the job there and as a consequence they gave that section a pretty wide berth cut but the moth will hover around the flame and one morning kelly noticed a rather striking looking man in the neighborhood of 0 the drexel bank the detective watched him for some moments and presently the man entered the portals of the bank kelly walked up to him and touched him on the shoulder good morning chauncey he said familiarly what are you doing here 1 I dont know you was the gruff reply and not my name why was the cheerful reply everybody knows chauncey johnson and im somebody it was impossible to brazen it out any longer and the famous bank robber admitted his bis identity na lie insisted bowmer that he had no evil intentions on this particular bank find and bad walked in tor for the purpose of looking at the large oil painting of 0 the founder of the house the eap exp explanation was accepted but the man was taken into custody and lodged in the city hall later he was escorted to new york fork where it was said that he was wanted for the adams express company robbery the moral la Is that it Is dangerous to take too many cli chances ances even it if you are at the head of your profession wu terr lo |