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Tricks of titieves at the Eastern Penitentiary
A detailed account of safe cracking and burglary methods by expert lock workers. It covers combination locks, high profile robberies, and the rise of scientific burglary from Chicago tests to bank heists in Wooster Reading and Boston, with notable figures like Shinburne and Marsh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Penitentiary
Chicago
Hall
Sargent
D. K. Miller
Wayne County Bank
Wooster
Ohio
Reading
Quincy
Ilinois
Maximilian Shinburne
Big Ike Marsh
Boylestown Bank
Boston
Ocean Bank
New York
London
Paris
Ton
Marsh
Faro
United States
Shinburne
Wurtemberg
Baron Trench
Massachusetts
Shell Hamilton
Marsh-Shinburne
Hamilton
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