The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-19
BANDIT QUEEN |s M0THER'S TERROR
Anna Baron, Chicago Girl, Is
 Taken By Police After Auto Accident

CHICAGO Nov, 1S.-"Tm glad the coppers got my Anna. Maybe she'll learn something In jail"
 This is the attitude of the mother of Chicago's latest--and youngest- bandit queen," 16-year-old Anna Baron.
 At home they tried to shackie Anna down to the Baron fireslde, with such startling success that when the police overlook an auto mobile crammed with youthful hold-up men. they found Anna in the midst of the party. Anna is being held, pending trial
 "she was a good girl until she fell in with bad company" ex- plained Mrs. Baron Since then, she has made me nothing but trouble.''
 See, she said, pointing almost triumphantly at vindicatlon of the parental efforts. there's the chain with which her father tried to keep her in her room that very evening. But it ain't no use trying to hold down wild things like Anna. Yes. it saved me lots of worry when the police got her"
 The arrangement to keep Anna 'in" proved on investigation to be an iron paddock with N sufficient length of chain to fit around the ankle. Chained to this in a small shed just outside the house. Anna had forced her father to release her under threat of shooting him. Threatens Life Of Father.
 And she'd have done it. too'' in- sisted the mother. "oh, she's a bad one. is Annar'
 The Barons live in the kind of a home no one would care to live in unless they had to. It didn't appeal much to Anna apparently
 ''Oh. it ain't that I don't care what happens to Anna Mrs. Baron. after slight pause in the interview. has tened to explain. But her pa and better locked up. When she was little thing and went to grammar school she washed dishes and tended the babies like any good girl. But couple of years ago she fell into bad company.
 They were boys and girls that stole automobiles for a living. and girls that ran with them for the fun of 1t. Then Anna stopped going to school, though she lied and told us she was still going.
 "She used to come home at night drunk and be no good all next day. She used to get jobs, but she couldn't hold them, and wouldn't stay home to mind the babies any more. When was sick with the last one, she ran off just the same. Wonder if she'll like 1t better in jail.'
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 Captured With "Cop Baiters." Anna was captured in company with her five youthful "cop baiters," as their big green touring car raced over Southside streets and ended up in the close embrace of telephone pole. Ii was only after Lieutenant McGrady and his squad had ridded the wrecked car with bullets that the "queen and one of her escorts surrendered. The cops are still hunt ing the other four.
 Mrs. Baron resumed the summation of her case against Anna:
 Last night. her pa carried her, screaming like a devil, to the shed and chained her to the door, with the paddock locked about one ankle. She threw one shoe through the glass on top of the door and said she'd shoot up the whole family if he didn't let her go. She told us she had a revolver. and her pa was afraid. She has spirit. that girl.
 She ran out, and you know whats happened now. Well, let the police manage her if they can. can't