Girl Bandit

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)

Girl Bandit

A Kiss the Signal DARING CHICAGO ROBBERY i A fancy dress Hallowe’en ball, held at Harmony Inn, Thornton, on the outskirts of Chicago, was broken up by twelve robbers. The raiders took Jewrellery and cash worth £ 3,000. A handsome blonde girl, attired as “Cinderella,” led the hold-up gang. All the bandits, in fancy dress, had mingled with the dancers for some time and then four of them left the ballroom and took up strategic positions commanding the exits and cloak-rooms. An “Apache dance”—the feature of the evening—began, and “Cinderella” joined in. When the dance had been in progress for a few minutes the princess with the glass slipper threw off her mask and kissed her partner. That was the robbers’ signal. Drawing revolvers and firing one or two shots through the ceiling”, the bandits ordered the dancers to line up along the walls. They then systematically s-arched the men, while “Cinderella” .'id tha like with the women. Some of the bandits searched the cloak-rooms and rounded up the stray revellers. Then, headed by the girl, tie gang made for two motor-cars in waiting. A policeman, who came up on his motor-cycle at this moment, was shot by one of the escaping marauders, and the whole gang got clear .*»way with their booty.