SAVAGE GIRL BANDIT

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14771, 10 October 1921, Page 3

SAVAGE GIRL BANDIT

* MASKED WOMAN IN NEW YORK. A masked woman, with a man similarly disguised, attempted to rob a Jcwcdler, Morris Sapo, in his simp on a second floor in Sixth Avenue, New York, and after a fierce tight, in which Ihe woman bit the jeweller's face with the fury'of a savage animal, she escaped during a revolver battle, in which her companion and the police look part. The two robbers lingered in the hallway outside Sapo's shop for some time, and used a novel method of keeping a look-out without attracting suspicion to themselves. .“They were spooling like a terribly lovesick couple,” said Dr. Michael Peyser, a dentist, who has an office two doors from that of Sapo. “She was kissing and hugging him. My assistant I bought at the time I hat they were a pair of lovers who had no place In meet, hut it looks as if she were either trying to keep up his courage or as if they were protending to he busy while waiting for I lie jeweller's helpers to go.” A few minutes after the assistants had gone the jeweller looked up from his work, as his door, opening, automatically rang a bell. He found himself facing a small masked man with a revolver in each hand. Sapo knocked one weapon to the floor and gripped the thief’s body and arms, so that he could not shoot with the second revolver. Sapo was getting the better of matters, when the young xyoman threw herself on him from behind, drove her nails into his face, and struggled to drag him away from the bandit. One of her thumbs was boring into Sapo's lip. “With a snap he caught the thumb between his teeth and .held it. The young woman jerked her arm and struggled to free her thumb, hut Sapo bit. all the harder. She did not scream in spile of the pain, but she flung herself on Sapo again, sunk her teeth into Ids check, and inflieled bite after bite. Finally the attention of Sapo’s next-door neighbour. James Posner, was aroused. The robbers broke loose from Sapo and made for Hie door, leaving the jeweller too exhausted to go after Ihem. As they left. Hie male robber held a revolver at Posner and made him hold up his hands. Police were by this time hurrying up, and a constable gave chase to the running man. The woman disappeared in Ilm crowd, lint her accomplice was eventually caught in a cellar with only one shot left in his revolver.