BOBBED HAIR BANDITS.
A GIRL ARRESTED. NEW YORK, April, 21. A message from Jacksonville,- Florida states that the police after a month’s pursuit have captured Celia Cooney, one of the so-called ‘bobbed hair girl bandits’. Detectives from New York surprised her with her husband in a room in a house in widen they had lived since the death of then fortnight old baby on Saturday. The prisoner's spirit of bravado was gone. Slie surrendered ei.deßy because she lacked money to continue her travels. Normally the girl would have h-'cn able to effect further hold-ups hut was prevented by illness and the incident of childbirth. The nolice learned _ber whereabouts through an intercepted letter from her husband to his mother asking for money with which to cry the doctor's hid and to bury the eld'd. The couple Tran being arrested said little beyond admitting they w-re concerned one robbery, with which they were charged.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16081, 22 April 1924, Page 4
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