BEWARE OF PURSE THIEVES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 14

BEWARE OF PURSE THIEVES

A WARNING TO LADIES. Ladies are warned not to venture unescorted at night into unfrequented streets as there are known to be pursethieves about who have uo compunction ill taking risk for the sake of tho oft-times trifling recompense that _ tho snatched purses yield. A. few nights a .voung lady named Miss Taylor wlio had stayed rather late at a friend's place at Hataitai, and "was walking towards tlio tunnel with the _ idea of reaching lier home on the city side of the hill by that means, was seized by the ankles, thrown down, and her purse, containing a gold watch, and chain and five shillings dn silver, was wrested from her grasp by a. man, who ran in the direction of the hills, where' the darkness afforded him immediate cover. Beyond the fact that he was a man of fairly robust build, wearing knickerbockers, Miss Taylor could not give a very clear description of her assailant. Tho young lady was given a very severe shock, from which she did not recover for some days.

It is understood that another lady's purse was snatched in the same neighbourhood at about 5 o'clock on a recont evening. The police have T he case of Miss Taylor in hand.