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CELIA COONEY PLEADS GUILTYs.licbSanlold3B1-'mo Bobbed Hair Bandit and Hus-b!° band arraigned on Robbery charge—Sentence Monday.IHnhoeld Associated PressNow York, Aprij 23.—Celia Cooney, * confessed bobbed haired bandit and her husband, Edward Cooney, today pleaded gdlty to an Indictment charging robbery in the first degree whenr arraigned before County Judge Markham (□ Brooklyn.; Judge Markham . accepted their picas and they were remanded to jail for sentence Monday. The Indictment V charged tbe Caoueys with robbing a it- chain hIoto of $20 In cash on February 22. • i13-lla New York, April 22.--Celia Cooney, rt* confeHRcd bobbed haired bandit, tf-day lost her firet .legal battle Jn leas to- tb^n ftn'hour after shtTwsa half-led,, ri* half carried by dcteotiyes through rt, denae throngs at the Pennsylvania i’ll Terminal from the • train which• broughl her :frora Jacksonville, Fla., where abe was captured. Following, close behind, his cap *9 pulled down oyer his fact to escape a P- battery of newspaper cameras, eamo )u her. “tall companion and husband, Edward S. Cooney. .. *y Mrs. Cooney, big eyed, cheerful and ft* smiling on thu Iralu, had “dolled upH for the home coming. With her ^ husband she admitted twelve rob-buries which notted them fljOO.Q . “Wc had lo do It for the baby that h wmi coming,” thoy said. Writs of | habeas corpus issued by Supreme Court Just(c« T.ovy wore snrvod on detective escorts, and dumbfounded 1 J tho police. Whatever glimmer of hope it might hare kindled in tho , a couple, whose baby died only 11 days i, ago, was soon dfspetfed when Supreme0 Court Justice Crlegerlch dismissed.the writs and remanded both tlie girl and [c her’.husbandto.custody. ?K Assistant District Attorneys Driscoll ‘ and Walsh fought against tho. Qnal -granting of tho writs by. Justice Git*- i orich. Samuel J. Dickowllhz, of coun- y aei lor .the aci^sed.; declared ' be ;i Bought to shield them. especially Mrs. Cooney, from “sweating at the hand,* • of police. W.-Uah challenged Lickowits auth* t orily to represent the couple, as. both Insisted on the. train 'that- t)iey did ; hot want o lawyer. dIn court both denied that’they-had 2 seen Llokowltz or engaged ..him' as * counsel, it developed that Cooney's brother, Thomas, had retained the at' torncy when a letter to CQOOoy'-atgueiT Brother Tom was read «loud.’-Mrs. Cooucy stili refused- uorvl«oi of a lawyer. Her huaband said. Pm undecided. Tho' court * then dis ' missed the writs’ . * | :Bustled out of the court roam into autouiobiJus again, tbo Cooncfs vara taken-to the -District Attorney's dike- •: In- Brooklyn to answer fourteen countsIn connocftoi .with'isoldups. . - • | We'did jnot‘watit our.’ biby ‘ to .too 'born in a. furnished .room,1'. Edward S'. Cooney, husband of Celia Cooney, the confessed bobbed hair bandit, said til- explanation of tbeir many crimes, *-“Wo needed money to got-furniture \y and set up our homo. I had been Pa reading of numerous robberies, and I decided that may bo I would gut | enough money that way to ilx It up.ThAuOnHo• Wo talked ft over and decided to try our luck.1 Thoy told the polico tnai curing the period between January rth and April 1st they had participated lo 10 robberies in Brcoklyu which had not tod tiieui. not over (900.T*
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Salamanca, New York, US
Wed, Apr 23, 1924
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