| Show s o O ¥ THE SALT IlAKB TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNINCf NOVEMBER 12 1533 A r V-- ' - itlesnal® CrieiltWasn i Love it When the Killer -- Bandit's Mysterious “Moll” Was Captured She Turned Out to Be a Bleach-Haire- d Country Girl Who Hadn't Looked Before She Leaped n ’i 1 ' I t t-- hardness and composure a braise on her face told its own story Then Bhe decided to confess and did bo quite calmly to tho prosecuting attorney e I “I met him at a dinner-danc- didn’t know he’d been in trouble until two months later I hardly realized at first what he was doing He moved to my apartment but we didn’t live together I loved him He got us Into it little I am not a bad girl by little “The bruise was because he struck me That wasn’t the only time he’d struck me It wav' somewhat of a knockdown and dragout between my husband and myself I told my family I'd fallen down That wasn’t true “Sometimes he treated me beautifully sometimes terribly When he was trying to force me to do something why nd didn’t treat me so beautifully “l learned to keep my mouth shut and lust listen It was only after I married him that I knew I was in the clutches of a fiend I was so terrified that I did exactly as he told me to do That Is why I am here In Jail “Oh what’s the use? The thing is done and my life Is over” Burmah’s father laid he'd never worried about her until she bleached her hair That seemed to make a difference somehow It happened while she was working as a manicurist - After finishing high school where nq had a good i d 'i BRUNETTE Burmah Adams d and Natural in the Daft Before She Dreamed of Becoming Robber's Partner in Many Crimes Dark-Haire- f --A VseV v V a girl student high school to the bride and partnfer-in-crim- e of a reckless On ffttd the ddefi tilg&ft MlvfdiJwA hood by detectives’ bullets when her husband was killed — And finally into the trap of eight indictments for crimes of violence to which she had confessed — crimes enough to put her into the penitentiary for life— All in two short years Such was the grim experience of Burmah Adams Los Angeles girl white whose destiny brought her into baneful association With Thomas White a who won for himself paroled the name of the “Rattlesnake FROM simple-hearte- d small-tow- n killer-bandit- record' Burnt in had learned manicuring and gone to work After a After three weeks — they found it Two officers picked up the stolen coupe in traffic and traced it to a repair shop Attendants said it came there regularly for gas So four detectives were “staked out” In that shop— as mechanics For days they wore overalls serviced cars wielded monkey wrenehea and made minor repairs 1 i V 1 Bandit” Burmah was White’s partner in crime When he stole automobiles ana terrorized a residential area in sout- hwestern t Angeles BLONDE! Pletinum in Feet— Burmah Adam White Photographed in Jail After d Her Wet Slain Her Father a Baker Thought Bleaching Her Hair Had Made a Difference in Her Character Los she 4 there a week later when Bur-- Bandit-Husban- ave” said the victims Then —without warning— White fired His gun wag only a few Inches from the schoolteacher’s face The bullet tore through her skull permanently blinding her Then it lodged in the And she drove tnone cars was seen by various victims of her armed robber-husban- d Bitting at the steering-wheduring the hold-up- s — and they reported laughing! Long before White’s capture and death when his identity was still mysterious they named him “ThehisRattlesnake Bandit” and “Blonde Ratthe r throat “I heard something” Burmah narrating this “I didn’t know what it was It turned out to be And something shooting that sounded like— you know —like a dog eounds whining or whimpering like a woman whimpering In fear” White ran back told the tlesnake” blond girl to “step on it and It was somewhat of a surhit the side streets” and they prise when the bandit was drove a few blocks to where cornered and shot to death a couple sat in a coupe White to find that his blonde THEY “SHOT TO KILL” held them up took the coupe wasn’t a “moll” of Detective A Bergeron at the Left and B G Andersen left the sedan and they fled disbut a the expected type Praised by tha Mayor of Los Angelos for Their Bravery —Burmah driving as before girl country pretty tinctly ’ Driving like mad the only false note in whose Bartel and Mrs Gertrude Host who After that night after bight it was appearance was the fact that she’d the same story until a total of eight changed her hair from original brunette owned the car prepared to get out and six possible adadmitted hold-up- s to startling platinum Strongarm street man across then a the Just ditional ones were piled up to the credit methods that might have succeeded and side blonde left a girl's of the “Rattlesnake Bandit” and the on an underworld type of girl didn’t abruptly approached the car drawing his gun as unknown blonde girl In robbing the wring anv admissions from Burmah White apartment of C C Lewis the criminal Though she still smiled her he went The girl remained behind steel-har- d smile it seemed she was actWhite quickly robbed Mr Host and fired as before but missed his bullet lodging In the wall Police tests proved Bartel then commandeered their car ing a part that it matched the bullet which had Next he called the blonde girl Burmah Gradually it dawned on the officials that here was ho oommon case of She took the wheel they drove away blinded Miss Withington The excitement was redoubled bandit and bandit’s “moll” but an inThey didn’t know that behind the Victims had noticed the number stance of a normal girl shaker's were Mrs Host’s valuable of the car— License And daughter who had fallen in with a rings which she’d managed to hide they’d seen the girl quite clearly desperate criminal Still her cool bearThey were found there later Tha police took drastic measures Several blocks away an elderly and ing baffled them until confessing she First Chief Davis revived an abanwell known retired newspaper pubburst out with the cry i “He forced me Into these crimes! It lisher W Cromble Allen of Ontario doned police stunt the “drag-net- ” started with love — but It wasn’t love— was out on a quiet street In a car He Officers were posted at au blockading the wide was giving a driving-lessoto his friend it was slavery 1” Her story and incidentally her legal Miss Alice Carr Withington a Los neighborhood where the robberies had occurred They halted can defense against the indictments drove Angeles schoolteacher home a powerful lesson as to what could Burmah— at White’s direction she inspected and questioned their happen to young girls who thought they said—tried to crowd Allen's car to the occupants “The general public may be Incurb Failing she drove on tha cross“knew the world”— and weren’t caredeclared Chief convenienced” ful ing where White leaped out It was on a hot summer night that ' And now occurred ths incident which Davis “but the Department feels that no effort must be spared” tha Southern California metropolis was inflamed the whole city cruised And The bandit held up Allen and Miss startled by a series of ruthless Crimea A maroon sedan drove up In front of Withington taking her handbag with in cars all through the district on a $18 And his cash about $100 “Quit looking for an apartment house on South Rampart Its two occupants Leslie fooling 1” growled White “That’ all we license-plat- e Boulevard el A They were Stammered girl-partn- er DRAGNET The Map Illustrates How the Police Blocked Worked The Entire Crime-Are- a Wes Surrounded at Key Points and Polico Searched Every Car mah drove In—alone— for gas The net was closing around her but she didn't know it She drove out again The disguised “mechanics” dressed as they were seized their weapons and leaped into a waiting car Detectives Bergeron end Anderson followed as she drove to en apartment nearby Guns jn hand they entered ascending to an upper floor A girl’s quick warning scream—the figure of a man dodging into a side room time she had moved into the city but continued to visit her father Early last Bummer she had met White and later brought him to visit her parent Mr Adams' “SHOT IT AND Fall Deed Riddled b) Detectives’ Bullets— Thomas Paroled White N Who Posod eta “Broker” and Woa Girl’s had been well impressed with the “broker’ who evidently had money Adams dreamed his prospective was a bandit) At the elmple home wedding he gave hit daughter away Five days later came the fetal shooting The eight crimes to which the girl confessed carry enough sentences to put her in prison for life if the Juries convict her end the judge should decree con--1 secutive terms never t son-ln-ia- w Lev That as true White had married her In order to keep her from being a legal witness against him But she loved him too W Crembl Allen Former Taken to the Jail President of the California the girl at first proNewspaper Publisher’ ceeded to baffle her acAssociation Wh Was With cusers She refused to Mite Withinfton Whan She talk asserted her legal Was Blinded right of silence and greeted those who came to Identify her with a smile or a sneer She greeted her father as though nothing had happened But bints of the ordeal she'd gone through came out in the following days Though at first she showed t 4 f v - seat-cushi- drawing 9” M de Sr Has spoke bullet the One knock'd bandit’s weapon from his hand Ths following flurry dropped him dead His body was rid died with bnlletL And 19-- y ear-olplatinum blonde Burmah saved in the nick of time from throwing herself from e window sobbed n mi t actives’ weapons gs tfeerrtfht K end the y X O' d frantically: "He was my husbsnd! We were married just five days ago!” Mae slaSiests A VICTIMS At theJLeft Mrs Alma Fall and at tha Right Mis Lncilta Weaver They Thought the Blond Girl Langhed as White the Bandit Hald Them Up tqs h |
