BAG-SNATCHING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 23 September 1930, Page 11

BAG-SNATCHING.

THREE CASES IN A FORTNIGHT. 'SIMILAR METHODS" USEDi . A further instance of bag-snatching in Christchurch occurred last' Saturday evening, when a man approached an elderly*woman ini Bellyue'avenue, Papanui, and robbed her of her purse. The methods of . the thief were-, similar to those of the man who robbed a woman of her handbag in Shirley on September 9th, and it is" now 1 learned that a further case-occurred in- Papanui a few , days bef ore - the: Shirley incident, ..when a young iWoman-was robbed ©f jfi 2, .. The woman concerned in Saturday's case was walking along Bellvue avenue, Papanui, at "about 10.15 p.m., when a man on' a bicycle stopped, and asked he? the whereabouts r Weston road, f She did- not ; know, and passed on,- but the man followed her, jostled her roughly, and snatched her purse from _ her _ hand. A party of young men, walking in the vicinity, saw a man'speeding , along the pavement on a bicycle,' 1 and, turning a . corner,' heard a woman sereaming.<They learnt from her oftheman'e attack,,but it was?too late to -follow, him. Later a constable? found the woxpan's purse, with the money intact, lying in a gutter near the-, scene, of j the robbery, so that the thief gained little'for his pains. - When a young woman was robbed t>i . ; &2;;. the contents of her handbag, about September 6tV<:while .ishe walltfng along Matson's road, Papanui, -she. was accosted by aman on a bicycle^- the same- way* , ■ -He - asked her. where :. could'find a certain road, but, being' unable to tell him, she walked away. The "i*" caught" her--up, and dragged 'her by the arm towards him. Then he grabbed her handbag and made off"t>n ,his bicycle. " -- f ■"