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Show Former Thief Lends Sh'll to Good Cause Atlantic City, N. J. A shahbil.v dressed man stepped Into police lieud-quarters lieud-quarters enrly tlie other morning to ask for a pluce to sleep. He was flbout fifty years old and looked nun gry and (ipolngeUc. No one paid much attention to him. The policemen were too much occupied occu-pied with a more pressing problem, for they had discovered that the big safe was locked, that some one had left the combination Inside. Nobody was able to open the safe, which eoii talned all the records, bail money and evidence needed for the opening of tile court. "P.eg pardon, Cap," the Intruder said quietly, "I used to be one of the princes of my profession. 1 can open any safe you show me with nothing but a piece of sandpaper." He received plenty of attention then They pave Mm a piece of saiidjiaper and he rubbed It on his tinker tips to make them sensitive to the f.ll of the tumblers In the lock. While the policemen crowded close, the slmhbilv drpsgpd man moved thp dinl slowly hiirk and forth, a low I ".Fliimi.v Vni "litinc" ri;dit out of the () Menrj nnrnitive. And like "Jimmy Vnleii tinp" he proved Ills skill ns a "stifi' nun." "It'll optn now." he en Id. "Just turn iliy hiindlo." A policeriinti turned the hmidle nnd the safe opcrit'd. "I used to he a world heater at ! this," the rtmn said, "hut I did a ten year stretch in Missouri and I never wnnt to ro to JmH iignln." The policemen provided a nts din nu a plnce to sleep, h trenkfiist and saw Unit he got a Job pushinj! rollini; chairs on the boardwalk at $5 a day They did not eive the name of the "Jimmy Valentine" because he had helped them and because he said he was "going straight." |