US EditionShe led an ring of automobile thieves in the 1920s before her arrest
Esther Newberger led an armed theft ring and was sentenced to seven years after a failed carjacking that drew witnesses and a police pursuit.
- On July 30, 1926, Esther Newberger attempted to steal a vehicle from Byron Hanson outside his Fargo residence; Hanson interrupted the theft, watching Newberger flee with accomplice Raymond Brady in a waiting automobile.
- The Fargo incident occurred 13 months after Newberger's release from a South Dakota prison, where she served roughly one year for transporting stolen automobiles. She was previously known as an armed leader of an Upper Midwest theft ring.
- Law enforcement arrested Newberger and Brady one month later in Sibley, Iowa, following a crash in Breckenridge, Minn. Newberger was convicted of grand larceny in Fargo and sentenced to seven years in prison.
- While facing charges in Dickinson County, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Newberger resurfaced in 1931 arrested in Montana for burglarizing an oil station. She identified herself as Patricia Newberger, but fingerprints confirmed her true identity.
- Newspaper archives show Newberger divorced her partner, Anthony, in 1934. Her name and legacy in the headlines halt there, with no further reports indicating what happened to her following the Montana arrest.
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She led an ring of automobile thieves in the 1920s before her arrest
FARGO — She was known as the queen of northwest automobile thieves at a time when women were beginning to exercise their right to vote. Described as a black-haired bandit in newspaper articles, Esther Newberger was the armed leader of a ring of men who roamed the Upper Midwest in the 1920s, stealing vehicles from prominent businessmen. In 1926, at just 21 years old, she found herself in a Fargo jail after attempting to steal a vehicle at gunpoin…
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FARGO — She was known as the queen of northwest automobile thieves at a time when women were beginning to exercise their right to vote. Described as a black-haired bandit in newspaper articles, Esther Newberger was the armed leader of a ring of men who roamed the Upper Midwest in the 1920s, stealing vehicles from prominent businessmen. In 1926, at just 21 years old, she found herself in a Fargo jail after attempting to steal a vehicle at gunpoin…
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