The incidents at Richmond,Logansport and Jefferson City were
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Jimmy is getting to be too well known as a master safe-cracker. This is one of the reasons why he moves to a different territory of operations in Elmore, Arkansas and also one of the reasons he decides to reform completely. Not all criminals can reform. They are not smart enough to change occupations, and the older they get, the harder it is for them to change. They become incorrigible recidivists. Jimmy is intelligent, good-looking, and has a winning personality. When he decides to reform, he does it easily. In a short time he is one of Elmore's leading citizens and is engaged to a beautiful girl who happens to be the daughter of the town's wealthy banker.
When Jimmy got released from prison he took his specialized safe-cracking tools out of hiding and went right back to work. He committed three bank jobs in quick succession.
A week after the release of Valentine, 9762, there was a neat job of safe-burglary done in Richmond, Indiana, with no clue to the author. A scant eight hundred dollars was all that was secured. Two weeks after that a patented, improved, burglar-proof safe in Logansport was opened like a cheese to the tune of fifteen hundred dollars, currency; securities and silver untouched. That began to interest the rogue-catchers. Then an old-fashioned bank-safe in Jefferson City became active and threw out of its crater an eruption of bank-notes amounting to five thousand dollars.
Subsequently Jimmy falls in love with Annabel Adams and decides to reform. But he has these three bank jobs hanging over his head. His past will catch up with him.
The losses were now high enough to bring the matter up into Ben Price's class of work. By comparing notes, a remarkable similarity in the methods of the burglaries was noticed. Ben Price investigated the scenes of the robberies, and was heard to remark