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Show uv. I BOLD BANDITS i LED BY WOMEN j New York, ScpL 22. Led by a I woman, automobile bandits rivaling In boldness the taxlcab robbers of Paris and tho perpetrators of Bimilar crimes on the lowr east side of New York, today securod 15000 worth of loot in broad daylight from the jewelry jew-elry store of George RIchman, 711 Second avenue. Just across tho street services wero going on In the Reformed Reform-ed Episcopal Dutch church, and scores of people wore passing up and down the thoroughfare, yet so rapidly rapid-ly was tho robbery committed that no one noticod anything unusual. RIchman was In his shop stocking hi8 window with a display of Jewelry Tho safe was open and a number of trays of diamond ringc and jewelry left for repair were lying on a shelf Just back of the counter An automobile auto-mobile bearing two men in tho back scat and a woman who seemed to be directing the chauffeur, with the driver driv-er on the front seat, stopped at a door below Richman's store. A well dressed man approached and gave the Jeweler a dirty watch chain to bo cleaned. RIchman went to the back o the store to clean it Tho stranger followed fol-lowed him and as the Jeweler bent over the chain a revolver was jabbed Into his ribs and he was ordered to "shut up and be quick about it" A towel was bound across his mouth, his hands and feet wero tied with pieces of wire and with his own belt. Then he was laid helpless behind a counter whllo anothor man entorcd and tho pair took ?S25 in cash and more thnn $4000 worth of diamond rings and pendants, a numbor of . which had been left for repair by their owners. During the robbery the woman oc- jj cupant of themachlne did not leave i it, but kept up an animated conversa- I tion with tho chauffeur. Mrs Tobias, fl a Jewish actress, and Miss Yetta SI- mon entered the store just as tho B robbers were leaving, but thought nothing of them until they found ' RIchman bound and gagged. The -engine of tho automobile had been -kept running at full speed and tho robbers escaped, but Rickman was able to give a good description of them. oo |