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Show NERVY GIRL BANDIT LAUGHS AT POLICE Escapes in an Automobile While Officers Wait. New York. Displaying utter cou-tempt cou-tempt for Commissioner Enright's order or-der to a squad of 250 plain-clothes men, Issued a short time previously to "get her dead or alive," Brooklyn's famous bobbed-haired girl bandit, who has robbed dozens of stores, again made her appearance In her role as driver of a bandit car, and, with two confederates, escaped with $2(H) taken from a Thomas Roulston chain store, Thomas Kgan, manager of the store, and Willie Ryan, fifteen years old, his errand boy, were the only ones In the shop when the two men entered. en-tered. The bandits kept Kgan and the boy covered with revolvers while they rilled the cash register. With a curt command to F.gnn to "keep jour trap shut or get ready to stop a couple of bullets," the two men backed out of the store. Around the corner was an automobile, over the wheel of which bent the bobbed-haired girl bandit. She had the motor going and as the men stepped into the back of the car she threw In the clutch and the car sped away before any one had noted the number of the license. The girl's daring bus staggered the Brooklyn police. More than 1W) extra men In plain clothes, some from the detective school, have been "planted" inside and outside of chain stores to catch the girl, but she always eludes them. |
