The Bankers, Their Vaults, and the Burglars

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My object object in in placing placing the the following following information information before before the the Bankers My Bankers

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secured at at night night. . secured

How their vaults are are located located, , constructed constructed, , and and How their vaults

fastened. How guarded guarded, , inside inside and and out out. . What What access access may may be be had had fastened . How to the same, by the expert bank robber—ever on the alert with ever on the alert with to the same , by the expert bank robber

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by bank bank burglars burglars in prosecuting prosecuting their their nefarious nefarious vocation, vocation Over twenty years years of active active detective detective service service, among among this this class class of Over twenty men, enables me to speak from experience, and to place before my speak experience place men enables me from and before my readers a few of the many plain but startling truths, gathered during readers few the many plain but startling truths gathered during that time, hoping that they they may may prove prove beneficial beneficial. In doing doing this this, I hoping that time that ,

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The small highly highly-tempered drills that silently, but surely, gnaw their The small - tempered drills that silently , but surely , gnaw their

way into the heart of the safe. The The copper copper sledge sledge hammers hammers and and way into the heart of the safe . mallets, tremendous blows blows are are scarcely scarcely heard heard. . The allThe all mallets , whose whose tremendous

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