BAG-SNATCH EFTS RUSE.
SAID ES WAS SnCTTJHE ACTOB. ("Sydney Sun" Special Service.) LONDON. August 4. Yesterday a thief snatched a bandbag from a lady at Hampstead. He was arrested by a policeman while running away, and stated that lie was doing this for a cinematograph picture. So plausible a story did he spin that he was released, and made good his pscape before it was discovered that he was an impostor.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 5 August 1913, Page 5
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