WOMEN BANDITS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9027, 5 November 1925, Page 6

WOMEN BANDITS

There has been a sudden an<l ~S L>L > of women baiuhls amazing nieit-dbe ui a„thorl.i the United States. ih J hies there are seriously IH-rtuib bv the activities of th . vdiuumen/- who arc boldly carx„. in a our coups of the most daring kind, nit her alone or m association with male desperadoes 110111 ferent parts of the State*• thu® have been reports m a P tll ° ,lu. weeks of 233 cases of v.omcn .r■ , . inpn awl women at (voiding up nicu .m. pisml point, and three of-til (Inriilj »f the bunk raK cr. no iv.iuu-.ln by the Chicago for « scries of voids ... W”' o ’* ,von.cn. One ol the •I'le-'- is a °irl. whir is de-muh-i ivckir.i> r- on ct-.ibed as being not more than U lair-haircd and blue-eyed, with all the advantages or a co V education, and a voice, gme ai abilities that would earn hei a handsome salary on - re ” _ Recently she walked into a haw h. the Stare of Illinois and. arnU fhe admiring glances ui clerks made her way to the desk of the cashier, who moved forivai riolitelv to attend to tins new cusIcmer' “Hand over all you ha 1,;.,;. " she cried to the astounded cU.im, ami at the same t«W> n-.inted at him a Browning pistol Without any hesitation ihejfc* tom through the head, andl betom the astounded clerks could ' ? her had seized the bundle of “greenbacks” nearest her an made for the door, chsappearmg into the streets nearby and be _ = lost to view. Police on duty with in a few yards of the bank failed to realise''what was going on until too late. The American authorities say the only reason they ca assign for the increase of !a "g s ness among American women the avowing restlessness among the (Lowing to absencei of nm trim mi. •veeetvftiieir share of the blame.