New Britain herald., 1924-04-23
|GIRL BANDIT TALKS OF HER EXPLOITS
Seems to Gloat in the LimeiSht ol Publicity

the bobbed hair bandit of Brooklyn
 and her husband and companion il
 crime. Edward Cooney, who looks {
 little like Jack Dempsey. arrived iron
 Florida yesterday afternoon and in 6
 series of episodes which appeared tc
 please the girl nightly went through
 the preliminaries of a trial for as,
 sault and robbery. which promises to be speedy, and which, since they have said they will plead guilty. may place both in states prison for from 10 to 20 years.
 Is The girl and her husband admitted last evening the commission of 1O crimes, according to Assistant Dis trict Attorney Thomas Cradock
 Hughes of Kings county. Chief
 among them the offenses to which
 they lead claim, not wholly without
 pride, was the attempted hold up of
 the offices of the National Biscuit
 company at 1000 Pacific street,
 Brooklyn. From there they went away empty handed after cooney, so
 he admitted. had shot Nathan Mazo. It was the fact that he had used the
 gun with which he had so often threatened that led young Cooney to take his wife and run away to Jack sonville, Fla, where their baby was born soon after their arrival.
 Say She Stole Only $500.
 The young people acquired s1.6oi, by their robberies. according to the police. The couple themselves con- tend. however, that they got only a little more than s900, and that be- tween the trip to Jacksonville and the birth of the baby they were wholly without funds when Detec- tives Frank Grey and William Casey from New York broke into their 1 room and arrested them. | Notwithstanding the fact that there are facilities in New York which per- init the birth of children at little or no expense, Celia Cooney stuck to her original story that it was because of the expected arrival of the baby that she and her husband, a welder by trade, turned to a career of crime last January. She stressed this, and the fact that they never held up any one on the street, never intended to injure any one and felt that "the world owed them living"
 She is a pert, self-sufficient ap- bearing little person. with plenty of nerve. and she seems to consider her. 1 self the heroine of melodrama. Her husband is slower witted than she and somewhat ungainly. Neither is prepossessing. She is not a blonde | and never was. Her hair is black.
 Last night. without having been | put through the formality of ar- raignment before a magistrate, the ! pair were taken 10 police headquar- ters in Brooklyn after they had | confessed. They will stay there i much of today. Meantime witnesses subpoenaed yesterday will appear be- 1 fore the grand jury. Several indict- ments probably will be asked for by the district attorney and found. Then the pair will be taken 10 the county court for pleading. The pun ishment for assault and attempted robbery Is from 10 10 20 years. How long the trial may be. how severe the sentence and the date of the sens tencing are matters in the province of the judge before whom they will appear.
 10 Charges Rcad
 Assistant District Attorney Hughes of Queens country made public this list of Brooklyn hold.ups, which he said Celia cooney, the bobbed hair bandit. and her husband, Edward Cooney. confessed to having commit ted. The list has been incorporated into ten charges against the couple.
 January s, lO.15 D. m.---Thomas Inc. chain store. John Ho- gan. manager, 2sg Seventh avenue; 1888.
 store, Richard ohlsndt, manager, 4S1 Ralph avenue: si13.
 January 12, 10 p. m.--H. c. Bohack Co.,, grocers, chain store; Richard , IIink, manager: 2s7 Brooklyn avenue: s25o.
 January IS, s:i0 p. m.--Drug store owned by Leo weinstein: Louis Hecht clerk; z5s Ryerson street; ts0.
 January 90. 10:15 p. m.-Drug store i of Benjamin Jospey zi1 New York ] lyenue: s1s0.
 January 22. 10 ?. n.--Grocery store , ,f Abraham Fishben, s41 Albany , venue, s5. Ii
 February 2, s:45 ?. m.--H. c. Ro- i lack O.. grocery store: Peter Ross- nan manager; 32O Lafayette avenue; iI50.
 February .5. s:30 ?. m. - James Butler Co. chain store. groceries; Cor ielius Rogers. manager; 80 Third lyenue; s60.
 March 10, s:5O ?. m.-Drug store # Samuel Weiss. s7i Summer avenue; i35.
 April i, a:so a. m.-National Bis .uit company. 1000 Pacific street. lathan Mayo. assistant cashier, shot vice. no loss.
 The total amount said to have been aken is ff,osi. The Cooneys told he assistant district attorney the to- .f rrn~. fafn