BAG SNATCHER
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 22. When a man rode up on a bicycle,to a woman who was walking in Armagh Street at about 8.30 last evening, snatched her handbag, and ran away, leaving the bicycle behind, he made clear profit of over £2O, for that was the amount the bag contained, and the bicycle was a stolen one. The woman concerned was walking ‘ in Armagh Street when she was stopped by a “man who rode up on a bicycle. He asked her where someone lived,. ...apd then grabbed her bag, making-liis-escape by going Tip a right-of-way, and through private property. When tiie police arrived— having been called by telephone from a near-by hoiise—the man’s . bicycle c .was found where he had left it. The bicycle proved, however, to be one that had been stolen earlier in the evening.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 6
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