GIRL BANDIT

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 179, 23 April 1924, Page 7

GIRL BANDIT

CAPTURED BY DETECTIVES IN FLORIDA (Rec. April 22, 5.5 p.m.) New York, April 21. After months of pursuit the police captured Celia Cooney, one of the so-called “bobbed hair girl bandits at Jacksonville. Florida. Detectives fiom New York surprised her with her husband in a roomy house where they have lived since the death of their baby. The prisoner’s spirit of bravado had gone and she surrendered chiefly because she lacked money to continue her travels. Normally, the girl w’ould have been able to effect further holds-up, but was prevented by illness and the incident of child birth. The police learned of Cooney’s whereabouts through the husband’s intercepted letter to his mother, asking for money wherewith to pay the doctor’s bill and bury the child. The couple upon arrest said little beyond admitting that they were concerned i,i one robbery, with which they they are charged.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ("Several girl bandits have been active in New York recently, and have proved a serious hazard to life and property, holding up storekeepers at the point of a revolver and rifling cash registers. The police estimated that at least eight were operating within the metropolitan district, and had perpetrated not less than fifty robberies.]