The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-09
BURGLAR BAND
Led by a Woman at Glen Cove,
Long Island,
Are BOLD ROBBERS.

| prints or a woman the Only Iangl.
bic Clews.-Rich Residents Be
comes Vigilants.
In the strangest burglar hunt ever
known about New York posses of
wealthy cottagers are nightly patrol
ing the shores of Glen Cove. L. 1.
With guns on their shoulders and
revolvers at their belts, they have
replaced the paid watchmen Of the
villages about the Cove, through
whose lines the looters slipped in and
out like eels, and they are looking
for daring band of land and water
pirates led by slender-footed wo-
man of beauty and good taste.
During the past six weeks the
| thieves with their woman leader have
secured more than $4,000 worth of
silverware and jewelry; that in one
of their marauding trips they chloro-
formed a well-knoWn matron and her
maid, and that on several occasions,
by the aid of swift motor boats or
automobiles, they escaped almost un-
der the eyes of the posses.
None of these wealthy sleuths has
seen the much-feared woman leader
of the pirates yet, though some SER
wants have. But the rich vigilantes
have found her tracks-made by mar
row, pointed, highheeled No. ga
shoes-leading from their homes to
the beaches, where she got into the
motor boat or to the roadways, where
she entered the automobile.
The latest Of the robberies occur
red Saturday night. The home of Mrs.
John Lille, widow of prominent
politician in Mineola, was broken in
to in the usual mysterious fashion,
and $1,000 worth of silverware car
ried off. Wheel marks, apparently
made by an automobile, were found
| in front Of the house the next morn
ing. A well-dressed. woman, clad IN
a tailored suit Of blue, had been seen
walking about the grounds Just be-
fore nightfall. Not only does this
fact and the tracks Of pair Of dainty
shoes indicate that the woman is Of
the burglar band. There are other
evidences. For instance, in several
houses rare linens and laces, whose
value few men could possibly know,
were taken. Half eaten bits Of candy
we're found about one or two of the
looted houses, indicating the feml-
nine leaders sweet tooth and also her
calmness while on job.
Her band apparently was not de-
tered by the fate of that other band
of Long Island burglars who were
rounded up during the Summer by
District Attorney Coles and Sheriff
Gildersleeve, of Nassau County. They
were sent to Jail for terms ranging
from fourteen to forty years. Otlclals
say no lighter sentences will be I'M
posed upon this band if its members
finally fall into the millionaires' drag
net.
One reward of $1,000 has been
standing for two weeks. John AlVlr
Young Sunday added an individua
reward of $500 more. 1t is expected
that no less than $500 additional vii
, be gained through the play, The
: Woman Pirate
! A feeling that the burglars are al
most uncanny has spread through tn'
i, towns. So completely have they dis
. anpeared within a few minutes OF tn'
-Ilootings, that it seems as though the,
G dematerialize themselves.
q 81 determined, with some friends
!, II would be best to &c out and hun
= the burglars ourselves said MI
Young. the bank president, Sunday
sThey looted my house and got o.
a clearly. though my ccachman ire
$ upon one of them-a masked maI
4 Last week the burglars were auda
o cious enough to come back ate
!. what they had left from their mrs
: visit. But they were scared CT. On
:, of the band was seen quietlng ID
watchdog with piece of meat. /"
hope to get them some OF thes
nights.
The robbery of the home OF Fran
= s Smithers is responsible for tn
coming theatrical performance. Mr.
smithers may be the impersonator
the mysterious woman leader.
S. It was at their home the feama
m desnerado's tracks were first disco
cred. Charles Williams. watcnma
IN nointed them out to the rich Wig
er lantes. Then the procured rules al
tape measures, did some Bertlllc
m work in the sand, and learned from
IN shoe man that the woman wore dal
!, ,e ty No. ga oxfords.
IL Il watched her house for avn
u and heard a whistle that sounded Ill
le signal when darkness fell, sa
e- Williams. Three hours afterWa'
al the Smithers home was robbie
though could not legally come
'hn the woman with it.
IL An automobile was used IN co
70 nection with the Weidenfeld a.
NJ Stevens robberies at Oyster Be
ro Wheel marks were found on t
lis lawns of the houses next mornlr
From the Weidenfeld house
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