A GANGSTER GIRL

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 18

A GANGSTER GIRL

Two-Gun Man’s Sweetheart

Beatrice Dunn is in London— Beatrice, the girl who “knows all about love, hate, crime and murder,” the 19-year-old innocent-looking blonde who was Frank (“Two-Gun”) Crowley’s sweetheart, the girl who cannot realise that everything that has happened has happened. Crowley was sent to the electric chair after a gun light with the New’ York Police. Beatrice is now touring the world with a wealthy American woman,’who Is giving her a chance “to forget the past” and Beatrice is “forgetting.” “I can’t now realise that everything that has happened has happened,” she told the “Sunday Chronicle.” Holdups, thefts, and murders have meant nothing in the circles in which she used to live. Crime was a commonplace. She has learnt how the gunman lives eternally on the alert for the fall of a policeman’s hand on his shoulder. “But because ■ I was once Frank Crowley’s sweetheart that does not mean that I am a gun girl myself. I never shot a gun and never even saw one until I met Frank,” she said. “And then I saw plenty. What I told them at Frank’s trial bust the two-gunman sham and blew the hero stuff sky high. "Yes, sir, what with Frank and the other gunman, Rudy Duringer. practising pistol shooting and cleaning their

guns all the time at home I saw pleniy. “Just think. I’m only 19 years old, and already I’ve had lots of expert-, ences, mostly bad ones. “Once I was on the run for four days on end when the police were tracking me to see if they could find Frank’s hiding place. Not so long ago that, but it seems a lifetime to me. “I could have picked lots of boys who were better and maybe worse than Frank Crowley, but you know bow it is. “I came to love Frank, and I wish things hadn’t turned out as they did. “Once I asked him to get rid of his guns, but once a gunman always a gunman. “He had a fear that if he threw away his pistols the police would get him.” But Beatrice discovered something when she lived with the gunmen. She found out that they are far from being heroes. “They’re afraid of their own shadows,” she said. “Those gangster films you see over here are silly. They’re full of false romance. “There is not such a thing as glamour in the life of a New York criminal, and I’m glad it Is all over for me.” Beatrice since she left New York has been to Japan, China. Egypt, and Germany. She’s “forgetting the past.”