The Washington times., 1924-05-07
.B0BBED BANDIT
ACTED ROLE
Of CLEO"
Cecilia cooney Describes Ride
in Limousine With Feet
Resting on Chauffeur
Continued from First Page)

bandit and swearing she would
shoot any policeman on sight that
tried to stop her and that when the
shooting began she wouldn't be the
one picked up full of holes.
| And every cop had orders t.
shoot on sight. They weren't look
ing for us to arrest US. They were
looking for US to kill us, like they
do out West.
Ed got to talking with me one
night and said, We're in Dutch
so Dutch that we can't stay here
even II we quit. It's too late tc
quit. And we've played a piker's
game. What have we got? PRETTY
good that first night, but since. a
hundred dollars fifty dollars, some
times not as much as twenty-five
And some people got thousands
We've got to beat it. and we've
got to have money. I've been think
ing hard. We've got to pull one
more big one. careful and different
and then blow"
l said, "All right, Ed, anything
you say; but whatll we do and
where'll we go?"
Plans Big Robbery.
He had it all planned out. just
block from US on Pacific avenue
was big National Biscuit Company
office. Wed go there and clean II
out, and beat 1t the same day for
Jacksonville, Fla. Ed said he' knew
Jacksonville was a good place be-
cause he'd been there while he was
in the navy, and we could 60 there
and II we had plenty Of money ]
could have my baby in a hospital
and we'd settle down. and he'd buy
part interest in q garage or some
thing, and we'd 60 straight and
forget all about the bandit stuff
and after all, II we was lucky. oul
kid could have all the things we
had planned for 1t.
We told our landlady that Ed had
short out-of-town job and we'd
be back in a week. We took moth
ing but a suit case and some clothes
and the three guns, and went ovef
to Manhattan in the subway and
got out in Grand Central Station
and came up through the waiting
room like we was coming from 8
train, and took a taxi, and went
to the Cloman Hotel at Forty-thiTd
Wv
l had my wedding ring, and any
body could see by then that l was
going to have a baby, and Ed
wrote it down on the register, "Mr
and Mrs. Parker, Boston, Mass,
and nobody thought a thing.
But that got US into trouble
afterward, for when the detectives
found the notebook we dropped al
the biscuit company and compared
1t with the handwriting on the
hotel register, they knew for sure
we were the same.
For a day was sick and couldn't
seem to eat or sleep, but the next
morning l was all right, and we
went OUT l got some hair nets
and thick veil in a store or
Eighth avenue. I'd been letting my
hair grow a little, and now l could
Tx 1t up with ends turned under
and the net around it, SO that II
didn't look bobbed at all. AnC
with the veil hardly anybody coult
recognize me.
And I wore the little pink hat
| the same l had on when thew
brought me back to New York
The papers said then 1t was the
same l had worn in all the rob
berries, but they made that up. ]
wore 1t the first night we robbed
store, but nobody noticed it; and
most Of the time afterward when
we were doing the hold-ups L wore
| a tam.
Well, Ed bought a new can and
left the overcoat in the hotel room
so that he looked sort Of different
too, and we went to the Clyde Zine
office and bought boat tickets ia
Jacksonville, still saying we were
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker from Boston
They were for three days later.
There was a telephone book and
a telephone in our room at the
MOTEL, and Ed looked through the
red book and picked out a Packard
renting service by the name OF
Wilmarth. and told him to send q
closed car with a driver.
When the car came it was q
ng limousine, with a fellow driv
ing it that was big and heavy
enough to be a prizefighter except
that he was too fat. He was a lot
bigger than Ed, and Ed Is nc
runt.
Leave Guns Behind.
That day we were just going to
look things over and we left the
guns behind locked in the suitcase
We told this driver-his name was
Arthur West-that we wanted to
go for little ride to see Brooklyn
Bridge-imagine us wanting to look
at Brooklyn Bridge-and then to
| n
that's right near Pacific avenue.
| 1t was fine, going through Brook
| iyn that wayne now riding in q
limousine where used to work in
a laundry. And l felt safe. Nc
cop was going to look for me sit
ting back in the cushions of a big
Packard with a chauffeur, and be
sides I had the veil on my face.
One thing we wanted to do was
to pick out a good quiet spot In
Prospect Park, close to the bis
cult company, where we could fi1
up that chauffeur next day. And
Ed wanted a look at the place
too.
We stopped near the warehouse
and he got out, and went over
planning IL anybody stopped him
to say he was looking for job
as a truck driver.
But nobody did. Nobody paid
any attention to him at all. And
he mootched around a little and
came back, and lit a cigarette, and
we drove on. asked him how
1t was, and he said, ITS all right
l guess, but there's a lot of people
| In that office-a lot Of clerks and
a lot Of James pounding on type
writer's"
Next day we were, all set to 60
took one Of the big guns, and
Ed took the other big one and the
little automatic. Wed been figur