SAVAGE GIRL BANDIT.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1921, Page 9

SAVAGE GIRL BANDIT.

1 MASKED 'WOMAN IN NEW YORK. A masked woman, with a man simi- , larly disguised, attempted to rob a t jeweller, Morris Sapo, in his shop on second floor in Sixth Avenue, New e York, and after a fierce fight, in which t the woman bit the jeweller’s face with r the fury of a savage animal, she escaped . during a revolver battle, in which her } companion and the police took part. The ! two robbers lingered in the hallway out- [ side Sapo’s shop for some time, and . used novel method o-f keeping a lookout without attracting suspicion to ! themselves. j “They were spooning like a terribly a lovesick couple,” said Dr. Michael Pey- ; ser, a dentist, who has an office two . doors from that of Sapo. “She was > kissing and hugging him. My assist- , ant thought at the t ime that they were a pair of lovers who had no place to , meet, but it looks as it she were either L trying to keep up his courage or as if ; they were pretending to be busy while , waiting for the jeweller’s helpers to ? go.” A few minutes after the assistants had gone the jeweller looked up from his work, as his door, opening, automatically rang a boll. fie founds himself facing a small masked man with a revolver in each hand. Sapo knocked one weapon to the floor and gripped the . thief’s body and arms, so that he could not shoot with the second revolver. Sapo was getting the better of matters, when the young woman threw herself on him -from behind, drove her nails into his face, and struggled to drag him away from the bandit. One of her thumbs was boring into Sapo’s li.p. “With a snap lie caught the thumb between his teeth and’ held it. The young woman jerked her arm and , struggled to free her but Sapo bit all the harder. She did Aot scream in spite of her pain, but she flung herself on Spago again, sunk her teeth into his cheek, and inflicted bite after bite. Finally the attention of Sapo’s nextdoor neighbor, James Posner, was aroused. The robbers broke loose from Sapo and made for the door, leaving the jeweller too exhausted to go after them. As they left, the male robber held a revolver at Posner and made him hold up his hands. Police were by this time hurrying up. and a constable gave chase to the running man. The woman disappeared in the crowd, but her accomplice was eventually caught in a cellar with only one shot left in his revolver.