GIRL WITH A GUN
THEFT FROM A BANK. FARMINGTON (Illinois), May 31. Norma Anderson, a young mother of / 18, held up a bank with her baby in her arms. Possessing a baby, but no money to buy milk for it, she entered Steenberg bank, and balancing the baby on one arm pulled a handkerchief over her face, presented a gun at the surprised cashier, and demanded money. For tile moment the cashier believed that the girl, w'as josing, but she pushed the gun closer, and onickly convincing him, walked out with 5000 dollars, equal to nearly £IOOO. She used the same gun to force a youth to drive her in his motor-car into the suburbs, where police easily traced and arrested her.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 7
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