Tried to Steal Dynamite.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 220, 16 September 1893, Page 3 (Supplement)

Tried to Steal Dynamite.

He Was Cut Off in the Flush of a

Professional Success,

' I met a thief one day,' said' Andy Rohan at bhe Sb. Louis convention of Chiefs of Police, ' whom I had nob seen for a long time. I asked him what had become of hia

partner 1 ' " Oh, tho last I saw of him was an arm," replied the thief. ' •' Whab do you mean ." I asked; ' Well, ib was just this way. Three of us went down to a littlo town in Ohio to work a hardware store. The old man who owned ib was the banker for all the peoplo in the village, and wo expected to make a good haul. But, alas, wo mob wibh a sad disappointment. VVo broke into the store and found a ghost all right. 'A ghost means a safe in thieves' parlance,' explained Rohan. '" Wo found a ghosb," continued the thief, " and bho boya wenb to work to blow ib open with powder. Luckily for me I wus piping off on the outside while my two pals did the inside work. Thoy lighted the fuse and stepped away about five feeb behind a partition. The explosion thab occurred blew the wholo building down, and all thab was ever found of my old pal was an arm." ' " Whab was tho troubleJ" ' Well, the old follow who owned the store was very stingy, He sold dynamite, and in order to escape high insurance rates put ib in his safe. My poor pal 1 Ib'a boo I bad I'