The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28

elgn Office ana the kly0ura minis
try. This the people Of Japan must
realize"
No. 6SS Woodward avenue, where
IL was the same thing all over
again. They went out and worked
and had to stick around the
house, washing, scrubbing. helping
with the stove.
I got some schooling just the
same, began to go when / was
about nine. and kept it up, off and
on, till was near fourteen. Public
schools part Of the time, and for
a while in Father Hauptmann's
parochial school. two blocks from
Fresh Pond road, on Katalpa ave
nue.. That's because we were all
Catholics.
People Native Americans.
That reminds me OF something
about these persons who have said
was German. My grandfather
was German, but papa was born
in the United States, and so was
mamma. They were American citi
zens, and I'm an American citizen
Everybody's got some relatives that
came from somewhere on the other
side. They make me sick. II / was
any more American I'd have to be
a red Indian, l guess.
And I'm still a good Christian
So Is Ed. We used to go regular
to mass. and we were married In
the Church Of the Nativity, by q
real priest, with Eds mother and
his brother. Tom, and other wit
nesses. We didn't go to confession
while we were sticking up these
stores in Brooklyn. didn't have
the nerve for that. But maybe III
get forgiveness somewhere-for now
I've confessed it all in one lump.
And while we went out and
! robbed, there's some things
wouldn't do. You know perfectly
well what u mean.
Outside Of this bandit business
I'm q good girl, and mean good
girl, and i dare the world TO say
I'm not. The Brooklyn papers
wrote about wild parties, and the
BObbed-Hair Bandit being ON q
hOOtch beat and . lot Of stuff like
that,
Never Drank Whiskey.
Well, the tough kid has never
touched a drop of liquor before pro
hibition or a drop OF hootch since
I've never had a drink in my life
| Say used to dance in Coney
Island, and play around in chop
suey joints in Brooklyn where you
! put a nickel in the piano, but in my
set ladies don't drink. And they
don't smoke, either.
So help me, I've never had g
drink or smoked q cigarette
leave that stuff to the swell danes
that can get away with IL and still
be ladies.
1t gives me a rare laugh when
read some highbrow doctor says ]
must have been a hop fiend or
couldn't have had the nerve to get
away with these robberies. AL
the hop I ever had either before or
after sticking up those poor, scared
boobs, who said, "Oh, lady. please
don't Shoot" was tea at a chop suey
place free in little cups without
handles, along with a big dish Of
chow mein for thirty cents that was
enough for Ed and me both.
"Oh, lady, please don't shoot. !
Say, I'm coming to this bandit stuff
later, and when / do I'll tell you
every little thing from first to last
but there's something want Il
put down now.
Please don't shoot, my eye
never would have shot. and here's
why. The only time ever thought
Of shooting was to shoot myself
that crazy minute when Ed and
talked quick about maybe whether
It wouldn't be better to end ut all
and shoot ourselves when the bulls
were smashing down the door to
arrest us in Jacksonville.
And here's why wouldn't have
shot. Two nights after we did oul
first stick.up, in the RalstOn grocery
store, at 289 Seventh avenue. on
January s, and got away with $500
Ed couldn't go to sleep, and got vi
and lit the light and said to me:
Cecilia, $500 amt enough. We gOt
to do it again and it looks easy, but
something might 60 wrong. You've
got TO promise me right now thai
whatever tight we get into you'll
never use that gun-nOt oven i
they jump MS and you see mo get
ting bumped. won't have you
taking . chance on the electric
chair"
SwOre IL On Bible.
Y
And he made me swear It on the
Bible. And never did shoot, and
never, would have, swear now
/ don't believe he would have either
In that terrible mix.up at the Ma
tional Biscuit Company, when poor
Mazio was shot, II he hadn't been
Hafraid for me.
fell on the floor when Mazio
grabbed at me. and Ed thought he
had knocked me down. I think
Ed got excited, or he never would
have done It, for he had said that
II we ever got called, he would
use the butt and that we'd try to
make our getaway that way. But
that's a long mixed story that I'll
have to give you the whole straight
Of later.
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Ter Of the BObbcd-Elalr Bandits