HAIR THIEVES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 18 June 1914, Page 7

HAIR THIEVES.

STILL AT VVOKK. IN AVELLLNT.ToX. With reprehensible persistency, fur robbery of girls' hair continues in Wellington. Tlio latest outrage, was imported to a Times representative on 'Monday by a young lady wlio had been despoiled oi her locks in .broad daylight in one of the city's' busiest thoroughfares. The girl was a "flapper" —the type which appeals to be the favorite victim of the new destroyer, with rueful grimace she showed the pressman the remains of what had once been long, beautiful strands of plaited black hair. The girl remembered, while in a crowd near the corner of Cuba and Manners streets, feeling a tug at her hair. At tne same moment there was a warning cry from two ladies near her. She, turned round hastily, only t<i j see the eoat tails of a ta'l individual dres-jeil in lark grey disappearing with celerity up Cuba street. He was lost to sight almost before slip, was aware of what, had happened. When she examined her hair, however, she soon discovered t.lic bitter truth. It is evident (.hat, emboldened by their <=ucces«, the vandals are bi-coming move daring in their operations. The neatly-plaited length, -halining behind afford fin easy mark for tic sly. predatory *uip. Tt is much easier than picking a pocket, and in a crowd a girl's hair worn in -aidi a manner could be cut off with very little chance of detection. The police are keeping a diligent look out for the blackguards, and the first one caught wlill 1 meet'with the utmost -(-verity of the < law.