The Washington times., 1924-05-06
BANDIT.
!. PLAYED WITH
200 COPS
Remorseful Girl Terror Tells
How She Made Brass
Monkeys" Of Them
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green and yellow.colored glass in
the windows.
Right across the street was the
Thirteenth Regiment Armory. with
some of the windows open, and we
saw some policemen going in, and
there was already a lot Of them in
there drilling. You could hear the
tramp, and the hep, hep, hep.
l found out afterward there was
a lot Of militia, too, having a dance
or something. Ed was for trying
the drug STORE until he saw what
was across the street, and then
we slid along around the corner.
But in about five minutes we
went back and tried it, just be.
! cause 1t would be such a sweet
| joke.
Nobody paid the least attention.
as we slowed down in front Of the
store and got out. There were
several cars stopped and empty in
the block. Who would have noticed?
But when we got inside, the store
wasn't as empty as we thought.
Two girls were phoning in the teIe.
phone booths that we couldn't see
from the street.
Weiss Behind Counter.
Sam Weiss was behind the coun.
ter. I went up to him brisk and
asked for a tube Of tooth paste.
The minute he got 1t and both
hands came out on the counter to
wrap 1t UP and tie a string around
1t, l pulled two guns, one out OF
each pocket, the little automatic in
my left hand and one of the big
thirty-eights In my right. 1t was
hands up quick and out from be-
hind the counter and around in
font OF me, where / could keep a
gun on him while tended to the
two girls In the telephone booths.
l said you could never tell what
a woman would do. Just look at
what these two did. tapped sharp
on the glass door Of the first booth,
and the girl turned around with
look like she was sore, and saw
the pistol. 1 motioned to her to
come out, and out she came. and
didn't that fool Jane act as IL she
thought she was at a movie or
something. Her eyes were popping.
but not from being scared. She
Just couldn't get 'em wide enough
for fear she might miss paS-t OF
the show. She spied Ed. She saId.
200, you're burgIars.' Then She
took another look at me ana ss;S
"Why. i believe you're the Bobbed'
Haired Bandit" And she started.
SO help me. trying to talk to me
said. Shut up, this amt al
comedy. If you don't want to get
nurt go over there and keep your
mouth shut"
Taps On Other Door.
Then tapped on the other door.
The girl in there took one look.
and slumped down in a sort of
faint, and thought first we were
going to have to drag her out or let
ner lay huddled on the floor of
the booth. but I kicked open the
door. and she crawlei out and
others.
Then, just as was set to drive
them to the back, didn't the front
ooor open and two men came in
10 BUY something. There was no4h.
ing to it. We couldn't stop. We
made them join the profession.
and l took them all back of tho
tons.
Before 1t was through. / thought
all Brooklyn was going to be I'm
that store. Ed was in the front
working, and / was with that
crowd in the hack keeping them
quiet, when l heard something OUT
front and before I could make out
what 1t was, here comes another
man around the partition, with his |
nands stuck way up over his head. |
TO Join my little social party,
l got to thinking, II so.ne Of
those cops and soldiers come from
across the street to get cigarettes
or something, it'll be good night. |
Iney didn't come. but one more
Mrs. Weiss Comes Down.
l heard steps on a stairs I
hadn't seen, or hadn't noticAd n |
was a stairs, and down comes Mrs
Weiss, the drug store mans wife. |
from where they lived on the floor |
She stopped half way ana said, |
what's going. on here?"
said Nothing lady, we're only
ro6bing the store"
AND she started b Jaw ut me too, |
ana by that time l was getting
sore at so much talk, and I called |
her good and hard. and made her
go stand with the others, without
any Ioolishness. I'd had about |
enough talk from women that night. |
BY now Ed was finished-he |
hadn't found much money, less
than $50 believe 1t was-and he
came to the corner Of the parti. |
ton, and we took a chance. they
wouldn't have any guns. and Just |
told them to stay where they were, |
and we scooted out.
But some of them must have had
more nerve than most, for we hadn't |
hoped into the car and got round |
the first corner before they were |
out In the street yelling bloody |
murder and police.
And found out afterwards that |
in five minutes the cops had all |
poured out Of the armory, and the |
soldiers had joined in, and they |
telephoned to headquarters and |
brought out the reserves with |
flivvers and motorcycles. and chased |
people all the rest Of the night, |
some Of them all the way to Coney |
Island.
guees they must have stopped |
every car in Brooklyn that night
except ours.
We figured they'd be putting It
on somebody In an automobile, and
we thought of ditching ours at
The first side street. But that
wasn't any good, for they'd have
got the number and caught us sure
afterwards.
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