GRAPPLE WITH ROBBER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 80, 28 December 1937, Page 4

GRAPPLE WITH ROBBER

Our Own Correspondent.l

Youug Woman's Coicrage MELBOURNE POLICE CHASE

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MELBOUENE, Dee. 16. Seeing two housebreakers escaping i from a ne*ghbourJs> home a yjoulng woman grappled with oue. The man struggled and broke away, Both men i ran into dense scrub beside the Yarra. Two men were arrested latcr by poliee on the Outer Circle Bridge. Miss Winifred McKeown, of Yarra street, Alphington, saw the men leap from a lounge room window of Mr Murdoch Cribbes' home in Yarra street. They had been disturbed by a woman visitor to the house, from which Mts Cribbes was temporarily absent. As they ran past her Miss McKeown seized one of the men, but he broke free. Poliee patrol cars were sent to Alphington, where the poliee spread along the river bank. They were told that two men had taken refuge in the undergrowth. While the poliee searched two men broke from cover, and Were pursued thfough the yard of the Austi'alian Paper Mills factory, where they climbed an 8ft, fence with top strands Of barbed wire. The men ran on to the bridge into the arms of another poliee patrol, The poliee allege that diamond rings and other jewellery, valued at £35, were found in the possession of the two men who were c&ptured.