SNATCHED BAG FROM GIRL IN CEMETERY
CONTEMPTIBLE THEFT Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. To-day. "This is perhaps the meanest and most contemptible theft case that has come before this Court,” said Sub-Inspector Fitzpatrick, in referring to the ojfence of Stanley Robert Webber, alias Stanley Robert Wilson, who pleaded guilty to a bag-snatching charge. The sub-inspector said that a young woman was in Bromley Cemetery kneeling beside the grave of her brother. She had put her bag on the ground and accused came up behind and snatched it. Accused was caught by the sexton. There had been a number of similar thefts. The police secured a remand, and accused was convicted and will appear for sentence on July 13.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 9
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116SNATCHED BAG FROM GIRL IN CEMETERY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 9
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