Word: warders
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...years to learn what I know about locks. No crook is going to take that trouble. It was different in the old days. [He is in his 40's.] There wasn't so much to know then. Even a child could learn how to pick a warder lock." He learned to pick, and later make, locks by stealing into his mother's jam closet on their Virginia farm...
...Warder lock, which Master Courtney scorns, consists essentially of a solid bolt with a notch or peg on its stem. The key engages the notch or peg and thus slides the bolt to or fro. Almost anything which can pass through the keyhole can throw this simple lock. To impede such easy passage a trifle, locksmiths sometimes notch the keyhole. Ordinarily only keys with grooved bits which fit the notches can get through such keyholes...
...John Lee, noose about his neck waiting to be hanged. The sheriff gave the sign, the bolt under the scaffold's platform was withdrawn. The platform did not drop. They tinkered the bolt, but still the platform would not fall. John Lee was returned to his cell. A warder stood on the platform, the bolt was drawn, the platform fell. John Lee climbed up again, the bolt was drawn, the platform would not fall. They planed its edges but nothing worked. Unhangable John Lee's case was debated in the House of Commons, his sentence commuted to life...
...Last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a warder from a Venezuelan leprosy settlement was horrified to discover an escaped case-of-leprosy who had somehow got himself sworn in as a policeman, was handling holiday crowds...
Sequel to the scandalous failure of City Trust Co. for $5,000,000 in Manhattan in 1929, a shifty-eyed little man of 62 last week entered Sing-Sing Prison to start a five-to-ten year sentence (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). He was Frank H. Warder. As New York State Superintendent of Banks, he had taken a $10,000 bribe to delay an examination of the bank which would have-disclosed its fiscal rottenness. A Court of Appeals ruling that the evidence of his guilt was "overwhelming" ended his 14 months of legal dodging...