The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-10
RECALL y. S. TROOPS ON RHINE
SHEBA OF BANDIT GANG TELLS HOW
SHE MADE HER SHEIkS STEP FAST
BY ROY GIBBONS.
NEA Staff CORRESPONDENT.

Chicago, Jan. I0.-E | q Il b c h |
CHoneyD Sullivan, 81, who police
say is confessed Queen of a bandit
gang Of eight sleek-combed youths,
bemoans the loss of her pear-han-
died automatic while in jail here pre- |.
liminary to facing score of robbery
charges.
No big Amazon, this holdup
tigress de luxe, clad in her up-to-the-
minute regalia. She is fragile slip,
with wide staring eyes and a mouth
that intrigues even as it pouts.
From behind the bars of the Jail
here Elizabeth told the story of
her life-how she first took up
banditry in quest OF thrills and con-
tinued it to secure money to fill her
hope chest to be used when she was
to wed her alleged bandit "sheik."
She said:
II wanted excitement like most girls
do. wanted to wear the latest
clothes and be fapper up to the
minute.
"All cay long l worked in my
mothers candy store and life looked
pretty stale inside the little shop
when watched the automobiles
filled with women all dolled up pass
by and me with .aly lone glad rag
to my name and no place to go.
about year 20 met Glen. lie
got to be my sheik' ind we planned
to get married some day, although
hes not 2l yet.
Both of US decided in order to
bring up family properly and live
in these modern babygrand apare
ments we'd have to have lots of coin
and the only way left for us to get
it quick was with gun.
Needed Cash.
Maybe I was working for my
hope chest. Glen and his bunch
were swell dressers they used; to
hang around mothers shop in the
afternoons when they got out Of
high school and often they told me
that / could have the swell clothes
they had too, if I'd only go out
with them. They said they'd show
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"But the clothes really weren't
what l wanted so much as it was a
nest-egg for me and Glen to set up
in little love joint of our own with
the preacher and all the trimmings
to go with it.
"The first job pulled was on the
sidewalk. had watched the rest of
the gang and Glen work when they
| took me along and decided | could
do as we'll.
"On my first job it was a man. and
a woman l stuck up. l held the gun
and one of the boys went through
their pockets and the woman's hand
bag. 1t netted US about 200 iron men
and some jewelry.a
| Leads to More.
"That one seemed so easy that l
decided to go in.for the thing in
earnest. During the day folks
though was a sweet young thins,
and it thrilled me to think of lead
ing a double life.
"Well, after we had been at il
several months with the money COM
ing easy and going the same way,
Glen and l both decided to put of
the marriage act for a while till we
got the lay of the land better. At
times l was in dread of being cap.
tured, but the cops all are a bunch of
buns. ,s
"With few glad rags myself and
the rest of the gang dressed in
proper cake-eating fashion. We
were never suspected.
"I'm telling all this because
don't care what happens to me and
the ouly thing Pm sorry for is be-
cause it will hurt my mother. The
gang would have been caught long
ago If it hadn't been for me, though
She Was "Sheba."
81 was the leader and I made
them obey orders--after they elected
me their Sheba. Men haven't any
brains anyway-it takes a woman to
pull the cool and brainy stuff.
Several times l had to use my
gun on my own gang and threaten
to shoot them for getting funny
when we were in tight pinches. They
often showed the yellow feather.
"But my sheik, Glen, was brave
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