Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . aken in a fashionable hotel; but he was too drunkto take a hand in this particular drop game and was there-fore able to escape conviction. The sneaks taken in the actwere convicted and sent to the Maryland state penitentiary. A trick akin to the drop game is the distraction of theattention of a messenger or customer just as he is on the pointof making a deposit with the receiving teller. This was afavorite trick of the notorious bank sneak, Billy Burke,whose
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . aken in a fashionable hotel; but he was too drunkto take a hand in this particular drop game and was there-fore able to escape conviction. The sneaks taken in the actwere convicted and sent to the Maryland state penitentiary. A trick akin to the drop game is the distraction of theattention of a messenger or customer just as he is on the pointof making a deposit with the receiving teller. This was afavorite trick of the notorious bank sneak, Billy Burke,whose unsuccessful attempt to rob the bank in Mt. Sterling,Kentucky, has been before related. Burke ranks in his classwith the foremost practitioners, and has repeatedly succeededin performing this trick; but he failed in his latest recorded at-tempt, six years ago, when he undertook to rob a bank clerk,who was about to deposit a bag containing £5,000, in checks,notes and gold, in the City Bank of London. Burkes con-federate touched the clerk on one arm and asked him a ques-tion while Burke slipped his hand into the bag which the clerk.
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