![Caught in the act., Washington, D.C. Aug. 14. William E. Raymond has been cracking safes most of his life but has never served a sentence in jail. He works for a safe and lock company and has made safe cracking his life profession. He is known all over the country as a master with finger tips, drills, or Acotylone torches. Time and again Raymond has proved a [à] to Washington bankers and businessmen when they have locked their safes and forgotten the combination. He refuses to divulge the exact technique of getting into safes without tools for fear of safe breakers operating outside the law might pick up a point or two](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzcvMDEvMDEvY2F1Z2h0LWluLXRoZS1hY3Qtd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi1kYy1hdWctMTQtd2lsbGlhbS1lLXJheW1vbmQtaGFzLWJlZW4tY3JhY2tpbmctMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/320/413/jpg "Caught in the act., Washington, D.C. Aug. 14. William E. Raymond has been cracking safes most of his life but has never served a sentence in jail. He works for a safe and lock company and has made safe cracking his life profession. He is known all over the country as a master with finger tips, drills, or Acotylone torches. Time and again Raymond has proved a [à] to Washington bankers and businessmen when they have locked their safes and forgotten the combination. He refuses to divulge the exact technique of getting into safes without tools for fear of safe breakers operating outside the law might pick up a point or two")
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Caught in the act., Washington, D.C. Aug. 14. William E. Raymond has been cracking safes most of his life but has never served a sentence in jail. He works for a safe and lock company and has made safe cracking his life profession. He is known all over the country as a master with finger tips, drills, or Acotylone torches. Time and again Raymond has proved a [à] to Washington bankers and businessmen when they have locked their safes and forgotten the combination. He refuses to divulge the exact technique of getting into safes without tools for fear of safe breakers operating outside the law might pick up a point or two
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Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1937
Contributors
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.
