Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-04-11
WOMAN BANDIT
SHOOTS CLERK
Thrice Wounds Man Who Tried
10 Raise Veil
MALE COMPANION AS AIDE
Pair Flees In Taxi Whose Chauffeur
They Had Bound And Gagged
Asks For confee-
tIons,

New 1ork.--Br0Oklyn' blonde
bobbed hair bandit, who has
smiled through score of daring
hold-ups in the last 10 weeks, shot
to kill when capture seemed i'm
minent after frustrated attempt
to hold up II employees of the
Brooklyn plant of the National
Biscuit Company.
Her victim, Nathan Mazzio, a clerk,
dangerously wounded, is in a hos
pital, attending physicians declaring
be has but slim chance to recover.
He has two bullets in the chest and
. third in Il chigh.
-ho attsmpt was by far the
most daring and dsnger-defying il
the girls meteoric career Of banditry
"a career which she has pursued in
spite Of the Efforts of $50 city de-
tectives who have sought her and her
ma1e companion with orders to
Shoot to kill, If necessary"
Accompanied by the inevitable
male, she sauntered into the retail
department of the plant shortly be-
fore neon and asked for a dimes
worth of confections. The clerk
turned from the shelves to face
small automatic pistol in her hand
and one in each hand Of the man
He backed into a rear room at their
orders.
There they were confronted BY Is
girl employees and Mazzso, who had
Just come in with a payroll sack
The girl did the bossing; her com
panion worked under her direction
They started herding the II into a
smaller room that they might work
at the office safe uninterruptedly
Mazzio suddenly seized her wrist
In one hand and tore at her heavy,
impenetrable veil with the ether
She threw him of. sent him stumb-
ling into the prison room and slam
med the door. Then she fred three
shots through the door, all Of them
hitting Mazzio, who had fallen to the
foor from the force of her push.
The two fed to a waiting taxieab,
and the woman, still leading, took
the wheel They abandoned the car
seven blocks away. and the police
later found a chauffeur in it, neatly
trussed up with strong picture wire
and gagged. The two had called him
to a hotel and directed him to drive
TO a lonely spot near the biscuit
concerns plant. When he halted the
car the man seized him, he said, and
bound and gagged him, while the
slim girl stood over him with her
pistol
Dozens of persons passed the spot
while the bandits were on their un-
successful mission. Had any stepped
near the curb they could have seen
the trussed-up driver, huddled on the
car floor. NO one did, however, and
the car awaited the return of the
hard-pressed pair.
Insistent instructions were issued
to the baffled plainclothes men as
signed to the search to redouble their
efforts. Again they were told to
get them: shoot if you have to. but
get them!"
The amazing activities of the bob
bed-hair bandit began to worry the
police last January. Always accom-
panied by her dapperly-dressed male
companion, she made a half-dozen
swift swoops upon different chain
groceries, quickly and laughingly
robbed proprietors and whatever Gus
toners were about and escaped in
speeding motor cars.
There apparently was nothing too
daring for her to attempt and accom-
plish. Her recently failure was her
first, so far as the authorities have
heard. Less than month ago. with
Brooklyn fairly crowded with de-
tectives looking for her, she de-
scended upon drug store directly
opposite an armory in which police
reserves we're drilling, held up eight
persons and escaped, all in less than
nve minutes.