GIRL BANDIT GAOLED
TEN YEARS ’ IMPRISONMENT. NEW YORK, May 7. The girl bandit, who was arrested last month, was sentenced with her husband to ten and twenty years’ im--prisonment respectively. The police, after months of pursuit, captured Cclix Coney, one of the socalled bobbed-hair girl bandits. Detectives from New' Y r ork surprised her with her husband in a boarding-house in which they had lived since the death of their fortnight-old baby a few days before. The prisoner’s spirit of bravado had gone. She surrendered chiefly because she lacked money to continue her travels. Normally the girl would have been able to effect further hold-ups, but was prevented by illness and the incident of childbirth. The police learned her whereabouts through an intercepted letter from her husband to her mother, asking for money with which to pay the doctor’s bill and bury the child. The couple, upon being arrested, said little beyond admitting that they were concerned in one robbery with which they were charged.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 5
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