Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — An Expert Safe Opener. [ARTICLE]

An Expert Safe Opener.

One Douglas, who is serving a long term in the Joliet (Ill.) penitentiary, is one of the most expert safe openers in the country, and says that •there is not a safe made that he cannot open without tools. He is not infrequently employed to open the refractory safes of the neighborhood. A few days ago he opened one that had a complex double combination, which the owner had lost control of. He worked at it five hours, but he afterward told another convict that Ipe had the job done in fifteen minutes, and only monkeyed with the safe to pass away the time and enjoy a taste of liberty.— [New Orleans Picayune.