BAG-SNATCHER THWARTED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUXEDIX, Wednesday. particularly determined attempt at bag-snatching occurred at about 5.30 p.m. Tuesday. While a woman wa« ascending the steps from Phillip Street, opposite the Kensington Hotel, to the Main South Road, a man suddenly seized her handbag and attempted to wrest it from her. The woman maintained a firm grip of her hag, and when the would-be thief second time the was jerked off her balance and dragged several feet down the steps, receiving iniuru'= to her face. Still she refused to Kn ■ . and when she screamed her fled, oeveral people at once to be*, ■•■btfncKV but Jh® ma» vu pr.s
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 23 August 1928, Page 10
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