Download or read book The Bobbed Haired Bandit written by Stephen Duncombe and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19 year old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a 'baby automatic', a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news and this text brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty and class conflict.