BURGLARS' OUTFITS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

BURGLARS' OUTFITS.

~ " RAFFLES" AND HIS TOOLS, Where do burglars get their jemmies, key*, and lock-picking instruments manufactured? The modern cracksman has far outstripped the old Bill Sikee type in the matter of implements, for most burglars to-day carry a collapsible jemmy that fits easily into his hip pocket, a collapsible isilk rope ladder that can fold up into hia hand, and \ numerous keys, quite apart froja his neat: oxygen acetylene blow lamp. — A set of safebreaking tools left behind after a recent robbery, and how in the "Black Museum.''.-at Scotland 'Yard show •wonderful workmanship in steel. ,It is stated that there exists a ring smiths and steel workers who We paid employees of $he tangs, and who mate the toblV '.' '\ '. _ ; : Most of the burglars ace experts at manufacturing skeleton keys, ana do not need help in that direction. But to perfect a jemmy that will stand tremendous strain, specially .•employed steelworkers aro engaged, and the police have evidence that on the outskirts of London are various hidden manufacturers of these housebreaking instruments. These is a particular woman who is an associate of a housebreaking sang who is expert at making the silk Mdders !':wVch"'. are indespensablei to the modem .Baffles. The police are also investigating reports from Brixton of' a hew electrical drilling apparatus, which will penetrate any ssife, and can be fitted to the ordinary wiring installation in any house or , factory..j : •-'— .