The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-29
BOBBEO-HAIR BANDIT
IS BACK IN NEW YORK
YOUNG WOMAN LEAVES JACK
SONVILLE IN CUSTODY OF
TWO DETECTIVES.
HUSBAND WAS A BIT SHAKY
Death of Baby Led to Their Appre-
hension in Southern City. VIII Face
Charges of Highway Robbery and
Assault With Intent to Murder.

Charges of Highway Robbery and
Assault With Intent to Murder.
JACKSONVILLE Celia Cooney,
/ 20 years old, smiled demure good
bye, as she boarded train here for
| New York in custody of two New
York city detectives to face charges
in that city Of highway robbery and
assault with intent to kill in connec-
ton with "a long series of daring hold
ups credited to "Brooklyn's bobbed-
hair bandit" Her husband Edward
Cooney, Is, also charged with the
hold-ups and shootings, was visibly
shaken as he began the trip back to
New York,
The couple made no. attempt to
fight extradition and Mrs. Cooney ex-
pressed extreme willingness to return
to New York.
An Air of Vivaciousness.
Mrs. Cooney maintained the air of
alternately calm Indifference and VI
vaciousness which she displayed from
the time OF her arrest, when she greet
ed the leveled revolvers of the police
with a smile and an automatic pistol,
until she left the city.
81 won't shoot if you WON'T she OF.
fered, when the police broke in the
door of the room in which the Coo
neys were staying, and a threatened
gun fight was averted. She persuaded
hre husband, she told police, not to
shoot when the officers entered the
room. Cooney, who faced the police
with a revolver in each hand wanted
to kill her and then commit suicide,
rather than be captured, Mrs. Cooney
told Detective F. S. Gray, of the New
York department She succeeded in
getting his promise not to open fire
and to forget the suicide pact idea.
Cooney according to Detective
Gray, confessed to taking part in
number of New York hold-ups credit
ed to the couple, including the hold
up of the Brooklyn plant of the Ma
tional Biscuit Company, in which Ma
/ than Mezzia, an employee, was shot
three times and seriously wounded.
I Cooney and his wife, according TO de-
tectives, each attempted to take the
blame for the shooting. Cooney, De-
tective Gray said, told him that he
had done the shooting, while Mrs.
Cooney declared she fired the shots
that wounded Mezzia.
Woman a Slender Brunette.
Mrs. Cooney, a slender brunette,
about five feet two inches tall, with
black eyes, wore her hair under hair
net when she left today, and il did
not have the appearance Of being
bobbed. She told police that her hair
| had been blonde, but she had dyed it.
Strangely enough, it was the birth
and subsequent death of their child
that led to the apprehension of the
! Cooney's. The child, girl, was born
here on April 18th and died eight days
| later. The birth of the child occurred
lust ten days after the hold-up of the
| National Biscuit Company plant in
Brooklyn on April 1st which Mrs.
Cooney said was the date of her TWEEN
teth birthday.
The trail led through thirteen states,
according to Detectives Gray and Will
liam c. Casey, of New York, who
came for the pair. Upon arrival
here, the detectives said, with the aid
OF Jacksonville police, they traced the
couple from one rooming house to an
other without results. 1t was through
the undertaken who had charge Of fun
eral arrangements for the child that
the address at which the couple was
staying was obtained.
Baby's Death Caused Arrest.
] Mrs. Cooney ceased to smile for
| few minutes when she discussed the
/ death of her baby.
1--WE named her Katherine" she
said
New York police said they obtained
the tip" that the Cooney's were in
Jacksonville through message for
money that Cooney was said to have
sent his mother in New York, The
money, it was said, was used to pay
the hospital bill Police said the cou-
pie was without funds when arrested.
They were living here under the name