Evening star., 1924-04-23
BOB-HAIRED BANDIT
AND SPOUSE GUILTY
Plead to Indictment Charging
First-Degree Robbery-Will Be
Sentenced Monday.
IDENTIFIED BY VICTIMS
Girl Expresses Sympathy to Man
Who Was Shot.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
| NEW YORK, April 25.-Celia Coo
ney, confessed bob haired bandit, and
her husband, Edward S. Cooney. today
pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging robbery in the first degree
| when arraigned before County Judge
Martin, in Brooklyn. They were re-
| manded to Jail for sentence on Mon
day.
They refused to accept the services
of counsel. engaged by Cooney's
brother, who offered a plea of not
guilty. They said they had employed
| no lawyers and needed none.
Thirteen persons, most of them
hold-up victims, today identified Celia
lCooney as Brooklyn's bob-haired ban
dit and her husband, Edward S
Cooney, as her companion in various
robberieS.
up victims. today identified Celia Cooney
as Brooklyn's bob haired bandit and her
companion in various robberies.
The girl, dressed in the familiar
sealskin coat, cerise turban and gray.
ead-trimmed dress. and her husband
faced the lineup in a Brooklyn 20
lice station in good spirits.
Nathan Mazzio, assistant cashier of
the National Biscuit Company ware
house, Brooklyn. who was shot dur
ing a hold-up, said: Yes, that's the
girl
I'm sorry you were shot" Mrs.
Cooney told him.
Miss Helen F'ogarty. another em-
ploye Of the biscuit company. was
carried from the room in a faint
after making the Identification
Both the girl and her husband cor
roborated statements OF witnesses s
many times. In one instance, when
woman declared they had taken
$35 from her. till. Cooney said they
got only sl1. In another case. when
the witness insisted that the pair
robbed his store of $3.50, Cooney said.
"oh, no. we got only SEQ from you"
Loses Legal Battle.
Celia Cooney, confessed bob-haire
bandit. lost her first legal battle in
less than an hour after she was half
led. half carried by detectives through
dense throngs at the PENNSYLVANIA
terminal from the train which
brought her from Jacksonville, Fla.
where she was captured
Following close behind. his ca u
pulled down over his face to escape a
battery Of newspaper cameras. came
her tall companion" and husband Ed
ward :. Cooney.
a few minutes before had cheered
President Coolidge on his departure
TO Washington after his address at
the annual luncheon of the ASSo-
ciated Press jammed the corridors
for a glimpse of the bandit couple.
Had "DoiIed-Up."
Mrs. Cooney, big eyed. cheerful and
smiling on the train, had "dolled up
for the homecoming. With her hus-
band she admitted twelve robberies
which netted them s1,100.
writs of habeas corpus issued by
Supreme Court Justice Levy were
served on detective escorts and
dumfoundetl the police. Whatever
gIimmer OF hope it might have kim
died in the couple, whose baby died
only eleven days ago. was soon dis
pelIed when Supreme Court Justice
t;iegerich dismissed the writs and re-
manded both the girl and her hus-
band to custody.
Samuel J. Liekowitz of counsel for
the accused declared he sought to
shield them. especially Mrs. Cooney.
from Sweating at the hands of
police.
and il developed that Cooney's
brother, Thomas, had retained the at
torney.
Mrs Cooney. however, refused
services of "A lawyer. Her husband
say. I'm undecided" The court then
dismissed the writs. The Cooneys
were taken to the district attorney s
office in Brooklyn to answer fourteen
counts in connection with the holdups