AN UNLUCKY GRAB

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 4

AN UNLUCKY GRAB

for a purse sriHxsna^ LEADS TO CONVICTION FOE TSC^S A dropped, purse is not always a lodiy ' windfall for the nest person who. eamm£ along. On Wednesday an elderly latt in making haste from the Ferry Bniv ings to catch her tram, purse in Quay Street. It m notitmjjSm the street by a man who stooped to fiiki it up, when an elderly man gras!Mi§H| almost from his 'hand*, and thed puree and some silver drop. who caw the puree first picked it also gathered the 7/ in sUver iallen from it. By that time man had disappeared, and to* handed over the silVer and puree t6|te nearest constable. He aleo remarW v ; that when he first saw the noticed something very like money pipit protruding, and he suspected that:*|§§ man who had grabbed at the purse uip got some note* Thja euspwoe-vWJiSK. strengthened when the lady who had># the purse made inquiriee at the p*»h* station, and stated that there were thn* dne pound notes and .7/ silver in tiftfi purse. ■ ' \ "■■ : 'w*||i§ Yesterday Plain-clcthea Lambert traced the identity of to* ff&fi man back to an elderly man 'naesl Joseph Augustus Copland (54), wlo »•* once been a barman, but now subesUl r vican6usly on casual jobs. AfUr siderable amount of rbluffingi- CcfS»* eventually admitted that he had gfttiSlf taed. The third person- named w«S «* terviewed, and he .« not«« which he feaid he had reetW* in trust from Copland. Copland was brought before Mr. F. V. of the theft of the £27»nd was «ii# dieted and ordered to come tip for •**: tence when called on, hie Wotthip r* heve that there wae yet another £1 >»7 the purse when Copland first handled^