Show WOMEN BANDITS B IN GARB G R Of MAN N I OF GIRL OF NINE AN ACCOMPLICE DARING FEMININE BANDIT BAND-IT IS ALLEGED CHARGED WITH MANY CRIMES Mysterious Automobile Burglars Believed Be-lieved to Have Been These Fearless Fear-less Women Confessions by Accomplices Brldgeton N Masquerading in mens clothing two women old resl tents of this city have been arrested and charged with 48 robberies Twice as many more crimes will bo laid at their doors by the detectives who after a veritable reign of terror In Brldgeton took the woman a male accomplice and a nine yenr old girl their gobetween Into custody A long series of daring robberies in which at least two lives were lost and which extended over all South Jersey these for two years are blamed upon women Among these are the famous robberies In which the mysterious red automobile and two masked women figured and which have been a puzzle to even tho Plnkertons Mrs Elizabeth Parson alias Mrs Blizzard who confesses to 55 years and seems nearer 70 Is said to havo been the leader of the band She has a long police record Her pretty young adopted daughter Mamie Parson Is charged with being her chief lieutenant lieuten-ant With house after house being robbed and thousands of dollars worth of goods disappearing tho offlclalo and police force of Bridgeton were threatened threat-ened that If any attempt was made to catch tho thieves their homes would be Instantly robbed and their own lives be imperiled Confessions have been mado by the accomplices of the two women The citizens of Bridgeton have been afraid to stir out of their houses for the last few weeks and not a night has passed since the middle of March without a new report of some daring burglary perpetrated within tho heart of the town It was the mysterious threats sent to the officials coupled with tho almost supernatural character charac-ter of some of the burglaries that paralyzed the wheels of Justice In Brldgeton Harry O Blizzard 26 years old Is the youthful desperado who was Mrs i F r The Mysterious Red Automobile Parsons right hmid man Little Ethel Parson nine years old a sister of Ma mile Parson Is thought to have acted as gobetween and to have helped dispose dis-pose of the mass of stolen goods Acting as an accomplice of Bllz zard and the two women has been Benjamin Franklin Thorn a night watchman But so remarkable are the circumstances under which he became Involved In the chain of robberies that by common consent he has been released on parole and In all proba bility will not be prosecuted According to the story which he tells and which is corroborated by Blizzard ho became an accomplice of Mom Blizzard only through threats of olacknmll made by her after ho had stolen food for her to save her daughter from starvation In his confession to Detective Lord tho old man tells of how on a wintry night last January Mom Blizzard came to him leading a halffrozen child by the hand and appealed for money saying that the child was dy ing When Thorn told her he had none she beggeed him to steal some provisions and milk for her to save the Infants life Tho old man did so Ever since that time by threats of Informing his emlllos and causing his discharge and disgrace tho old woman has forced the old man he says to be an accomplice In her rob berles and to help dispose of the stolen goods Mrs Blizzard was caught returning from one of her numerous visits to the plant of tho Arctic Ice and Milk com pany In company with Blizzard She had on her male clothing They were pointed out by Detective Lord to Pn llceinen Smith and Woodruff who took them to the Brldgeton jail Several thousand dollars worth of goods the police say havo been re covered at the little Blizzard house on the outskirts of Brldueton |