THE BAG SNATCHER.
■'% WOMAN'S PLUCKY'■PURSUIT;,',' , ' , . , . . X. IBs Telegraph.—Press Association.) . ' :■■ .Auckland, January 22.- ■■• At, the 'Police Court to-day, Francis Murphy, aged 53, pleaded guilty io stealing; £4 from Mrs. Gertrude Keeblo on Friday last, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. 0)i Friday afternoon Mrs. Keoble wa3 carrying a. 'metal handbag with a chain twisted round .her wrist. Suddenly she heard a footstep behind her and her handbag was tugged, She turned K-iind and saw a man make another tug a.t her liandbag, this time snapping tho chain. He made <..ir with the whieli contained £i and.a season ticket for the oxhihition. She followed him calling out as she ran. The man mado down Eden Crescent, where a milkman, attracted by the lady's cries,' jumped off his cart and captured the man. In Murphy's coat pocket was fotlisd tho handbag, and he was given into custody,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1965, 23 January 1914, Page 8
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147THE BAG SNATCHER. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1965, 23 January 1914, Page 8
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