A COWARDLY THIEF.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14988, 8 June 1914, Page 7

A COWARDLY THIEF.

HOLDS-UP OLD COUPLE.

Among the successful investors at the trotting meeting at Canterbury Park on Saturday were an elderly couple named Rosanaeki, residents of Marshland. They colleoted dividends to the amount of £30, and subsequent events showed that their good fortune had not passed unnoticed. The Rosanaskis had left tho Burwood car at the comer of Marshland road at about 7 p.m., and had walked some hnndred yards when a young man sprang out from, a gorso hedge, dashed a nancif.il of pepper at their eyes snatched tho old lady's handbag, and mado off on a bicycle. A gratifying feature of the theft was that the thief secured only β-bout 30s of the couple's winnings, the old lady having securely stowed away the LM in her blouse. No serious results attended the pepper-throwing, as the thief again missed his mark the pepper falling on the old peoples clothes. Detective-Sergeant Ward and Constable MeLeod, who have tho «iae in hand, are severely handicapped in their efforts to trace the offender by the factthat the old couple, who are both over I seventy years of age, cannot furnish a description of their cowardly assailant beyond stating that he was ' a young man."