GIRL BANDITS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 7

GIRL BANDITS

“ FORTY ELEPHANTS GANG " LED I>l " LLUIiIiOL'SJi LIZZIE." A pi city LUm-croppctl girl lias figured in a series of burglaries in Loudon and district. A constable lute one evening saw a touring ear outside Uic drive of a house. Jn Claygate, and as he approached two women ian from the house to the ear, at the wheel 01 which an Won-cropped, smartly-dressed girl was silting with a man. They all drove oIV, and disappeared before the eonsiablu could make investigations. hater on the occupants of ihe house communicated will; the police, who found tha.l, the house had been ransacked. Much jeweller v and ladies' 1 rocks were soiuicied in ibo ball. Apparently they had been abandoned by lire thieves in their haste lo escape. Scotland Yard believes the thieves to be members of the notorious forly Elephants" gang, the members of which are mostly women. 'they arc ihe smart* st shop-lifters and house-breakers rn Loudon, and have recently been very active in riiertscy, St. Albans. Ilford, and Leatherlictrd. A verv sensational exploit ot the Etoncropped girl bandit was staged Ibe day alter (he ho and erv for other robberies had been raised. >he‘ appeared in l ho high -a reel, at Merlon at 3 o'clock in the morn•m.r at. the wheel of a car. in which lornmen wore, settled. These men jumped out, smashed ihe window of a chemist A shop and loaded the car with cameras and other ai i iclcs. A policeman arrived while Ilia nan; we-, rims engaged, whereupon they lumped into I lie car and di-appeared, l ie gp) driver eluding rapture, though the police >1 a lions were warned and a cordon oi policemen was thrown round tin* area. The. police de-crilie ihe girl- as being llicieasiiedv eoiieenn-d in rolibeiies and a- reeon, recruits of crime They are ino-ily wei| educated, and are " girls about lown by .lav arid crooks b\ night." They are tieadeo I>\ a woman ex emn i< l. known a- “ Enm - bon-o Lizzie," who toni~ in the West End for pupil and I ranis tin in at her cnine academy in the I’.a-t End. Ihe loeably "I go aeadom \ is ani. n iv.n I o ■< a!a ml \ a r.. A number of their raids have been earn,n m ears -lolen from outside theatre', rest am-inis, and nigh, clubs ill the Ue-1, End,