Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-24
BLAMEs FALL ON WOMAN.
officials Say Bank Looter Was Com
i pletely in Powersof Feminine
Companion.

Vaccinations of designing woman
to ensnare a gullible youth and lead
him to the looting of bank will, be
revealed at the trial in the Federal
Court Of Mrs. Lillian Munson, who to-
day was admitted to $4,000 bail by
Judge Rellstab. The woman was IN
aicted in March as an alleged acees-
sory of Ralph Lovell!in the theft O.
$4,000 in cash and slO5,Ooc in neso-
table notes from the First Naaona!
Bank of Edgewater, Bergen county
where he had been employed as a tel
Ter Lowell has been in the Mercer
county Jail for several months pend
ing action against the woman, VINO
was traced to San Francisco and ar
rested there by the Government au-
thorities two weeks ago. After the
robbery of the bank about a year ago
she and young Lowell sailed for Bue-
nos Aires, Argentine. Lowell was Ia
ter captured in London with nearly all
the stolen money spent. The search by
Government detectives and men IN the
employ of the Bankers Association
had extended over more than 10000
miles and lasted months.
Mrs. Munson is a large, flor1d "o-
man of about 30 years, while Lowell Is
a frail, rather timid youth OF ~ Inc
Government officials say ne was
placed completely in the power OF the
woman. His capture was effected
through his attempt to make terms
for leniency with the looted bank by
offering to return the 100000 Of ne
eotiable securities which he had
placed in safe deposit vault in Ne"
York prior to his flight. The bank
had. however, taken steps to stop
payment on the securities and they
had become of no value. The officers
of the bank declared that they mad
beep removed for the express purpose
of making terms in case OF arrest.
According to officials Of the Gov
eminent, Lowell became acquainted
with Mrs Munson at the home of mu-
tual friends IN Edgewater. She was
then living in New York. 1t is said
that she went to Philadelphia with
him on one OCCASION little over a
year ago, and the return trip was
made in a sleeping car, leaving that
city at midnight. Shortly afterward,
it is charged, the woman complained
to Lowell that her husband had be-
come terribly jealous of his attentions
to her, and that the only way out of
the difficulty was their flight. Lowell,
the officials claim, protested that he
had no money for journey, but was
finally tempted to steal from the
bank. BY false entries in his, books
as receiving teller and bookeeper,i the
youth took the $4,000 in cash, and
the trip to South America was made.
Mrs. Munson, it is charged, left
Lowell in Buenos Aires and came
home alone He went on to London,
and has claimed that he was robbed
of $1,000 in cash while in the South
American city. He has also stated
that Mrs. Munson purchased dia-
monds, fine clothes and other luXur-
les while there. The youth also
charges that when he took the first
$4,000 in $50 bills from the bank the
woman placed them in trunk, which
later disappeared, and he never got
a trace of it.
Following tine Arrest Of Lowell and
his extradition to this country, the
Government sleuths got on the track
Of the woman, and discovered that at
the time of her flight she was not
married, although she had been living
with William B. Munson in New York.
Since the proceedings they have been
married, and in the investigation, it
is said, the detectives recovered $4,000
in $40 bills from Mrs. Munson.
1t was stated today that Lowell
will plead guilty to the charge, and
will be used as witness against the
accused woman at her trial. 1t is
expected that the trial will reveal
one of the strangest stories the courts
have heard in years, and a story that
will read like a "best seller"