MORE BAG-SNATCHING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 13

MORE BAG-SNATCHING

AUCKLAND WOMAN ROBBED

THIEVES USE A MOTOR-CAR

(By Telegraph.) . (Special to "Tin Evenlnj Post."} , AUCKLAND, This Day. j Two men, who are believed to have been using a motor-cnr which had been stolen from a city street, committed a daring theft in Victoria Avenue, Bemuera, early on Wednesday evening. One of them snatched a handbag from the hand of a lady who was walking down the avenue a short distance from her home, and the other drove up slowly. Although the owner of the bag (Miss J. E. M'Donald) screamed and immediately went for assistance, tho men in tho car were able to escape easily. Miss M'Donald left her home at about 7.40 p.m. to attend a bridge party, when a motor-car overtook her. She did not pay much attention to the ■car beyond noticing that the near door was open, and there were two men in the vehicle who seemed to bo trying 'to read the street numbers on the gates. At the foot of tho avenue one of the men got out and the car turned round a motor-bus which was standing there, and commenced to go up the avenue again. The man walked up the avenue also, and when he was close to Miss M'Donald he suddenly staggered in front of her as though he was drunk. She stepped aside, and at the same time ho suddenly snatched at a light evening bag she was carrying. She clung to the thin chain by which she was holding it, but this broke, and the man rushed away after the car, which was slowly travelling up the street. He jumped in, and the vehicle immediately sped away. Miss M'Donald screamed, but there was no one in tho street. She then ran into a house and communicated with the police. After' taking the risks they did, the thieves obtained little of value. The bag contained about 35 shillings in silver, and a number of personal articles. ________„_„_