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Young Girls Rob Minister on Highway
Lonoke County, Arkansas
Lonoke, March 14, 1944 (spl) To be held up and robbed, and to like it,
was the novel experience of the Rev. C.D. Marston, pastor of Christian
churches at Lonoke and Carlisle last night.
And the highwaymen - of all things were four teen age girls. Each was
armed with a pistol. These pistol packing pretties took $7 from the
minister.
Mr. Marston told Sheriff Noble V. Miller that he was driving to his home
at Carlisle when, about two miles out of Lonoke, he saw an automobile
parked beside the highway and a girl waving him down. Believing she
wanted to ride, or that her car had broken down, he stopped.
Confronted with Guns, too.
The girl approached and three others in the parked car got out and
started toward him, all flashing guns. The minister thought it a
practical joke at first but soon discovered otherwise.
While one of the girls was searching his billfold she found a card
showing that he was a minister. They appeared to "get a big kick" out of
robbing a minister, he told the sheriff. "They stayed in my car about 30
minutes kidding," he added.
Mr. Marston, although he has lived in Lonoke county only about a year,
"knows practically everybody," Sheriff Miller said. He coaches athletics
at Carlisle and meets many people. He told the sheriff that he was
positive the girls who robbed him did not live in the county. He failed
to get their car license number.
Drive Toward Little Rock
After they had stripped the minister of his last dime, three of the
girls got back in their car, turned it around headed toward Little Rock,
waited for the other girl, and then sped away. Mr. Marston returned to
Lonoke and notified Sheriff Miller, who drove to North Little Rock and
left a description of the girls at police headquarters. He spent most of
today hunting for the girls. They were driving a 1937 model Ford, the
only clue.
Girls' Description
One of the girls was described as about 16, 105 pounds and wearing a
brown suit. Another is about 15, 100 pounds with light hair and wore a
blue slack suit and close-fitting blue sweater. The other two were about
100 lbs each.
- Arkansas Gazette 1944
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