The Lazy Boy and the Lazy Girl

Celia and ed started robbing grocery stores when they were in their 20s. They got away with 22 times ed's weekly wage as welter, which the couple used to rent a two story frame house in brooklyn. Their media coverage expanded as the public ate up the story casting the girl bandit as a lady robin hood. The press was both positive and negative, depending on where you stood regarding women's rights. It was titillating for those who saw her as an example of female empowerment and those who used her as an examples of what was wrong with the modern woman.