Tackling crime
PA Auckland Mr Ron Don, president of the Auckland Rugby Union, and a former rugby teammate helped catch a would-be bag snatcher in Auckland yesterday. Mr Don had just walked out of a bank with a former Barbarians Club president, Mr Douglas Hamilton, when they saw somebody trying to snatch a black bag from a girl. “We chased him along the street and I yelled, ‘Stop him, stop him’,” Mr Don said.
About 100 metres from the bank the person crossed the road, and it was here that Mr Don’s former teammate, Mr Allan Clark, made his entrance. Together with a friend of Mr Clark’s, they seized the would-be snatcher. “We marched the person back to the bank, but it was not until she spoke that I realised it was a girl,” said Mr Don. “It was the stocky build that fooled me, because I did not get a proper view of her face — but Mr Hamilton knew all along.”
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Press, 11 July 1980, Page 4
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