BAG SNATCHER
SIX MONTHS GAOL. (By Telegraph — VerVre&s Association) CHRISTCHURCH, August 6. Admitting six charges of theft of handbags, involving £3O, Alice Beatrice looted, aged 38, married, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Magistrate Mosley. According to the police accused was a bag snatcher who worked to a system, but tried it once too often. The police said the woman's practice! was to go to the showroom of a drapery firm and "poke about” trying on a hat or a coat and to wait her chance while someone else was being served. She would then pick up a customer's uag and walk off. She was caught through tendering a cheque at a shop, from a bag which she had previously stolen. This cheque had been stopped, so she was apprehended. In many cases, the bags were taken from people who could ill afford to lose them.
The womua admitted burning the bags and keeping the money. She was married with five children and had not been ' before the Court previously.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1931, Page 5
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171BAG SNATCHER Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1931, Page 5
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