Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1912 — Girl Clad as Man Taken as Robber [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Girl Clad as Man Taken as Robber

NYACK, N. Y.—Still garbed in the suit of boy’s clothing she wore when captured, Miss Estelle McElroy, eighteen years old, was locked up in the Hillbum Jail. The girl was arrested in the search for the leader of a band for whom the police have been looking for months. A charge of attempted burglary Is made against her. The prisoner was a Sunday school pupil, active in church work and a member of the Temperance Union at Hillburn. Bar months thp police of villages In Rockland county have been looking for a band of burglars who robbed' factories, private houses and postoffices. The spbberiee were evidently the work of Skilled thieves, but not once was any clue left on which the detectives cduld start their Work. Hillburn, Nyack and Suffern were visited and once the. robbers stole several thousand worth of goods from a store at New City, within a stone's throw qf the county Jsil. As a result of the many burglaries

the villages have doubled their police forces, but such vigilance proved In vain. Houses and factories that were passed hourly were robbed by the thieves and no cine left Just Wore daylight the other day Constables Slavin and Sibley, of Hillburn, arrested the girl and Fred Monroe in the Hillburn Bronze Metal Works, which they were preparing to rob, it is alleged. The McElroy girl had her hair tightly braided and the braid* tjom cealed under a cap. When the grt formation firm her regarding the other robberies in Rockland countyproved futiltj..