Dorothy Townsend, 19 years old, tried to bring about the release of her sister Bonnie Sutton, who is confined in the Cleveland county mail, and now Dorothy is behind the bars, but her confinement does not seem to daunt her in the least for she was smoking cigarettes Wednesday morning and apparently enjoying her sojourn in jail. Dorothy, who is a sister of Bonnie Sutton, known as the first “bobbed hair” bandit, put some hack saw blades and a handle through the iron bars so that Bonnie could saw her way to freedom. She was seen standing beside the new jail, furnishing the blades and saw to her sister by means of a string let down through the window. Immediately she was arrested and placed in confinement.
Bonnie Sutton is the woman who stole Zeb Costner’s Buick automobile some months ago and was apprehended in Tennessee and brought back, the car being recovered from her possession.
From the front page of the Shelby Star, June 5, 1925
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn97064509/1925-06-05/ed-1/seq-1/#words=JUNE+5%2C+1925
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