BAG-SNATCHING INCIDENT.
MAN CHARGED AND REMANDED (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 23. John Augustus Jeans, aged 26, a butcher, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with stealing a bag containing a cheque for £54 and £2O in cash, belonging to Messrs McLean and Archibald from Gwendoline Mavis Evans. He was remanded till December 2nd on bail. When walking alohg Victoria Street about 11.25 a.m, on Saturday a young girl employed by McLean and Archibald, had snatched from her possession a leather bag containing about ,£74 which she was taking to a bank to deposit. The man who stole the bag was pursued by a witness of the incident, but he made good his escape. The thief, after snatching the bag out of the girl’s hand, made across the road and through the passage of the Empire Hotel, running from Victoria Street to Willis Street. Mingling in the crowd in Willis Street, he reached Chew’s Lane, back into Victoria St., continued to Mercer Street, and made his way back to Willis Street, where he caught an Aro Street tramcar that was just moving off from its stoppingplace.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 November 1931, Page 5
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