Case dismissed
(N.Z. Preet Aten.—Copyright 1 SACRAMENTO (California). Jan. 18. A charge of purse-snatch-ing against Alvin Earl Barrow was dismissed because he was no Cinderella. A deputy district attorney. Mr Thomas Stevens, thought that he had an open-and-shut case against Barrow: not only did four witnesses identify him as the man who grabbed a purse containing SUSl4<>. and ran, but the police who arrested him found SUSI6O in his pockets.
When the matter came to court, Mr Stevens thought that he would clinch his case by trying on Barrow's foot a shoe the purse-snatcher had lost while running away.
But he was unable to force even the front part of the defendant’s foot into the size six shoe, and the case was dismissed.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33128, 19 January 1973, Page 9
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