THIEF’S NOVEL IDEA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9450, 21 May 1909, Page 3

THIEF’S NOVEL IDEA.

The last word in ingenious robbery is the case of Mrs Frederick Brbwn, wife of a Yonkers business man, who was caught in one of the compartments of a revolving door at the store of the Simpson Crawford Company in Sixth Avenue, and relieved of £B. Mrs Brown was entering the store when a yonng man jumped into the same compartment of the revolving door. He poshed Mrs Brown ahead of him and got the door to revolve as fast as he could. At the same time he snatched her purse, containing a sum in cash and two negotiable cheques. The door spun round and ronnd until Mrs Brown was dazed. Then, when the compartment was open into the store, the thief suddenly shot Mrs Brown on to the,floor inside. The thief did not stop, but went on round with the revolving door as fast as he conld, and then darted into the street. Mrs Brown recovered sufficiently to start in pursuit a moment or two later, and, in respone to her cries of “Stop, thief!” ■scores of persons were soon chasing the fugitive. When finally arrested by a policeman, the man fought desperately, and did not surrender until he bad been very severely beaten. He declared that the revolving door idea was all his own.