The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-07-19
BANK ROBBERY
BY LITTLE GIRL
Was a Failure, But She
Had Nerve.
WANTED THE MONEY At HOME
For NeceSSitieS-MOther Sick
and Father Arrested
for NOn-SnppOrt.
SAW 1T IN A PICTURE SHOW

Akron, Ohio, July 12.-Edna
PEBBLES, aged 10, of Akron, late
this afternoon entered the bank of
Cuyahoga Falls, five miles north of
here. and, at the point of revolver,
ordered the bookkeeper to open the
vaults and hand over the money.
On the pretense that he did not
know the combination, he persuad-
ed her to leave. Half an hour la
ter she was arrested by Marshal
Williams in a remote part of the
town while she was walking back
to Akron. She was brought to this
city and locked in the county Jail.
Story of the Girl.
Akron, Ohio, July 19.-Pretty
little Edna PEBBLES, who tried to
rob the Falls Savings Bank at Guy
ahoga Falls, did the job between
getting the meals for her family.
She had been used to rigging up
her playmates as Wild West citi-
zens, and so, her Imagination fired
by something she had seen at a
moving picture show, she thought
of the bank when she found that
she needed money at home.
Her mother an invalid, and her
father not being employed regular
ly, the girl figured out what she
thought would be the best method
of replenishing the family supply OF
money.
The tiny girl who was bold
enough to try to rob the Cuyahoga
Falls bank in broad daylight looked
little more than babe as she stood
in the parlor of the Akron county
jail to-day, a prisoner. She came
down stairs with her finger in her
mouth.
Edna says she likes being in jail.
When she was taken there yes
treday the matron discovered she
was wearing a suit of boys clothing
under her dress. The trousers
were rolled up, since Edna's skirts
only come to her knees. She had
planned to get possession of the
money In the banks vaults, then to
discard her own garments and es-
cape in the guise of man, or boy.
Nineteen-year-old Carl PeeblesI
the girls best friend and a faithful
brother, is filled with admiration
at his little sisters daring.
"Gee!" he exploded in the Jail
parlor, shes got more nerve than
have! Why her finger couldn't
have pulled the trigger If the re-
volver had been loaded"
THE little one, armed to the
teeth was not easy to conquer, "
said the Marshal who arrested her
yesterday. "She put up a good
fight and tried to cover me with the
gun. / caught her wrist, then
threw her back over my arm and
wrenched the revolver away from
her."
Edna's father, Henry PEBBLES,
saloon porter, is being held for nom
support and neglect of the little
girl
do you know this is your fault?
You are largely to blame for what
this child has done now" cried
Prosecuting Attorney Frank Rock
we'll, in his talk with the man this
morning.
mo, no, I'm not" denied the
man.
Mrs. Lillian PEBBLES, the mother,
is an invalid, and Edna has been
for her and
her two brothers, Carl and John, in
her home, 500 Bryan street.
Mrs. PEBBLES, lying in darken-
ed room, shaking with palsy and
sick with fever, told of the compan-
between herself and the
child.
"She would talk to me like an
older person." she said, "and she
knew so much and was such dear
companion for me that can't sleep,
having her away. Do you think I'll
get her back to-day"
Edna had been teasing for new
clothes. II wouldn't be homely T. I
had nice dresses she said. fiuffing