Judge — July 9, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE The Burglars’ Gazette. A Weekly Journal Dedicated to the Interests of the Predatory Classes. ]N PRESENTING this, the first issue of the Burglars’ Gazette, the editor be- speaks the patronage of a profession to which he hag devoted the best part of his life, and on whose behalf he has suffered not less than fifteen years of imprisonment in the various State hostelries of this and other lands. It will be his constant effort to aid in every way all those who are still in the active pursuit of an interesting and danger- ous profession with his advice whenever asked, and from time to time to make in these columns practical suggestions based upon his own observation and experience which shall tend toward the elevation of our work from the level of a business to the altitude of an art. The editor is confident that his long experience, first as a second- { TRESPASSING = =a ¥ JS A fine opportunity for.one who can afford the time to avail himself of it is presented by the summer cottage of Mrs. Sanderson Gayboy, of Willis Beach. The house is closed for the season and is unprotected, and the family silver, instead of being left in charge of the local bank, as has been Mrs. Gayboy’s custom for years, our correspondent tells us, has been se- creted in the water tank in the attic. The house may be easily entered from the cellar, the third window from the front on the north side having been left unlocked. It is, however, a two days’ job, and the exact value of the sil- ver is unknown; but any member of the profession having a week-end at his dis- OUTRANKED. Gumshoe, advertised on another page of this issue. We have used it ourselves in most difficult cases, and have found it amply sat- isfactory. It is especially ree- ommended for use in houses where there are wakeful ba- bies or other light sleepers who might give an embarrass- ing alarm at a critical mo- ment. The shoes are noiseless from the start, no pair being allowed to leave the Bilkins factory until it has been thor- oughly broken in by a mechan- ical process known only to the inventors. We beg to call attention to a gross violation of the rules of the Pickpockets’ Associa- tion by a certain Hank Smith- ers, of Riverton, Pa., who was caught red-handed on Tuesday evening last with his hand in his victim's pocket. The idea of a man in this day and gen- eration failing to use Daw- son's Pocket Manicure Clip- pers, and cutting the pocket out, instead of falling back HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS BEST. nd later as the recognized king of the safe-crackers, peculiarly fits him for an undertaking of this kind, and he presents his first issue herewith in supreme confidence that it will fill a long-felt want The annual subscription is five dollars, with special club rates to all subscribers in confinement in the penitentiaries of the United States, Guam, Tutuila, and the Sandwich Islands. Hon. Bill Fagin, late of Doyers Street, New York, has taken a ten years’ lease of an apartment at Ossinning-on-Hudson, over- looking the river. He will be much missed in New York society, where he has from time to time been a visitor to some of our best houses. Night workers in the vicinity of Togus, Conn., are hereby warned by our Iczal cor- “ respondent that the eighth tread from the bottom on the front staircase of Colonel Harkins Webster's residence, on Hamilton Parkway, creaks loudly when stepped on and should be avoided by careful practitioners, especially in view of the fact that the colo- nel is a light sleeper and is so old-fashioned in his ideas that he still keeps a loaded blun- derbuss, that fires with a scattering effect, alongside of his bed at night. posal might not do budly to take the chance it offers. The Gazette cordially recommends to the use of its subscribers the Bilkins Noiseless on the old-fashioned, inartis- tic, and clumsy handwork of bygone primitive generations of pocket-pil- ferers, all of which is in direct violation of the rules laid down by the pickpockets’ (Concluded on a succeed.ng page.) BAKER Tes THE CHIEF CHARACTERISTIC. Crow awith feld-glass—"' 1 believe it's a plant, Holmes. He hasn't moved for half an hou: Other crow—"* Don't deceive yourself, Watson. More likely he's one of those general-store ’ cham- pen ' checker-players !'" comicbooks.com