The Washington times., 1924-05-03
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Bobbed-H Hair Bandit Tells How
Two Stores Were Robbed
in One Night
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the rest-and said, Gimme a dozen
eggs"
It's funny, how they don't ever
suspect a thing. Hardly look at
you, except to say:
anything else, please?" And
then wrap 1t up and push It over
the counter.
This man was sort of absent
minded, remember. Looked like
he was worrying about something,
but 1t couldn't have been bandits,
for when / showed the gun in his
face and said, sort Of low. "Stick
EN- up, and be quiet" he jumped
like he'd already been shot, and
first turned red and then white as
sheet.
Ed was behind me, covering the
store with his two guns. And quick
as ne saw there was going to be
no trouble from the manager-he
told me that II there was ever a
pistol in the store 1t would be the
manager who had it-maybe under
the counter or near the cash regis.
ter, and so II we pulled when the
manager had both his hands out
over the counter there was hardly
a chance he could do anything
well, I'm sure they didn't have a
pistol anyway, and Ed called out:
Get to the back, all of you, and
turn your faces to the wall"
This Mrs. Gibbons, or Gibbon, or
whatever 1t was, heard afterward
was deaf. And l guess maybe she
must have been little bit dumb
too, for she just stood, and didn't
seem to tumble to what was hap.
pening. She might have known,
from looking at the guns. She Just
looked at her husband instead, and
put her hand to her ear and said
Hey. what is it? What do they
want?"
And he said:
MY God, they're robbers, don't
you understand! Put your hands up
like they tell you or we'll both get
killed"' And she said, "Ohm And
he already had his hands up.
Do you know, that lady never
did put up her hands. l guess may.
be she wasn't so dumb after all. Il
oughn't to have said that about herr
| anyway. She stuck her chin in the
| air. and what do you think she
said?
No Place For Her.
She said:
"WelI, it's plain this Is no place
for me. I'll never trade at this
store again. Come on, john"
And didn't she start to walk right
past Ed, out of the door?
l though for a second Ed was
going to let her go. He dropped
both his guns 80 that they. pointed
right down to the floor. And then
! guess he lost his temper a little
He don't swear often. He knows
don't like 1t. But he yelled:
For Gods sake, lady, won't you
PLEASE get to the back? This
amt a joke. Beat it now to the
back"
Oughtn't To Be Allowed.
She went to the back, and stood
beside her husband, but she took
her time about it, grumbling and
mumbling something about it
oughtn't to be permitted and where
was the police.
It's a funny thing about women.
We had trouble with some more Of
them later in other robberies. /
think IL all the managers and clerks
were women, you could hardly get
away with rObbing a store at all.
It's not that they fight, but they
talk and argue and. won't do what
you tell them, and sometimes they
are liable to scream. Men always
seem to act like sheep when You
get them at the point Of a gun, but
you can't ever tell what a woman
will do.
Well, once they were all in the
back-it sounds long to tell, but
it couldn't have been more than a
couple Of minutes-I held the gun
on them, and Ed got the money out
OF the cash register. II there was
a safe. 1 didn't see it.
just Like Play.
When we got back out in the car,
and had turned a couple Of corners,
Ed slowed down a little and said,
kid, we didn't get much that time
Jess than a hundred dollars 1t
looked like to me. We got plenty Of
time and everything's set. Let's
try another"
l said, Sure"
1t was getting to be like fun. and
didn't seem to be much danger.
So we cruised around some more,
and got on Brooklyn avenue, and
spotted Bohack's grocery store, and
pulled the same thing there. There
was couple Of men, not clerks, but
they went to the back just like the
clerks, did, and nobody made any
trouble. I thought, Gee! this don't
amount to so much after all. It's
like any other work, except that it
pays better, but where's the excite.
ment?'
We got more money there
around $3.50, I think-and next
morning. found out where the
excitement was, all right. It was
Sunday morning, and we slept late
And I slipped on an apron over
my nightie and made some coffee
and boiled some eggs, and while
was doing 1t, Ed went out and
brought back stack Of Sunday
papers. He threw EN- on the bel,
and we had our breakfast while we
looked at the colored funny pages.
Crashed Into Front Pages.
Ed went back in the bed room
while / was cleaning up, and all
Of a sudden i heard him call;
Great cripes, come here and look
what they've donev'
There he was with two or three
Of the papers all spread out at
their front pages, and smeared all
the wayacross the top of the page, |
In letters so big they would knock |
you for a goal, was Bodied Haired |
Girl Bandit Terrorizes Brooklyn"
and Pretty Girl Robber Raids
Stores" and a lot more of the |
same kind of stuff that ! can't |
remember.
Geel who'd hava Thought thev'd |