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Show NAB A GIRL BANK ROBBER '"' 1 - !... NEW YORK, May it-Mabel Watson, the handsome woman, weIl4resMd and carta valuable jewels, and her two male companions, now under arrest at police headquarters, are believed to be the ringleaders ring-leaders pi the band of robbers that boldly looted the private bank of E. C. Brewer at . Oilbertsville. - N. T-. dynamiting- the safe, standing- off the cltuten of the town with a fusillade of bullet In true Western West-ern bandit style, and .escaping with Jlo,-000. Jlo,-000. The woman saya she is a and the men say they are James Watson. XL. and John Mullen, 16. - The trio was arrested at No, 23 West i Forty-ninth street, where they had lived In a furnished apartment for the past two weks. The police kept them under surveillance sur-veillance in the hope that other members of the band would show up, but when none arrived the police entered the apart ment while the . men and woman . were ileo and arrested them. . It is said that the woman planned the robbery, which- was one of the most daring dar-ing ever, known in the 8tate. It la also rumored that she Was in male attire and participated In . the robbery, standing ' watch at the bank while five others en- tered and blew the Safe, j The police took from the apartment the tnoet complete eet of burglars' tools ever seen In New York. There were two rubber, rub-ber, bags containing enough nltro-glycerine to blow up city hall, twenty diamond-pointed diamond-pointed drills of the finest grade, various other tools all of the' same high grade, and a big -caliber revolver and a box |