Show UP TO DATE BURGLARS they employ E electricity I 1 and carbon joints to crack ft a safe cleveland 0 june 28 burglars resorted to a novel scheme to open a bank safe fate at chagrin falls this con county n they entered the bank of rogers son lome time early in the evening they had previously attached a wire to the th trolley line of the electric railway this thin wire was run through an alley over a transom and to the safe another wire attached to the rail ol of the street ear car track was brought into the bank at the end of these were carbon points with these carbons an attempt was made with the are arc light thus formed to melt the knob of the combination the tha experiment worked all right and the knob had been nearly melted away when the current was shut off shortly after midnight the burglars then gave up the task the job was planned scientifically the thieves hid bad even gone to the trouble of placing a little pile of sand under the knob tor for the molten lead to fall on and thus avoid setting fire to the floor there is no clue to the burglars |