Solution—An Old Racket

This racket, which is often performed in metropolitan banks, is thus accomplished: The gang first learns of an important depositor having a safety deposit box. The timing is carefully done so that just as the inside member arrives at the cashier’s cage the cashier is telephoned by an outside member (from an adjacent drugstore or similar place) stating that he is the depositor who has just remembered he left some bonds on a shelf in the vault and requests the cashier to take care of them immediately.

The cashier naturally agrees to do so and hurries away. While the second man in line opens his newspaper, thus hiding his confederate, the man at the cage extracts the money and walks out! The man in the morning suit is a decoy.

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IF MANY GO BEFORE, ALL WAYS DO LIE OPEN.

—Shakespeare