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A BAGSNATCHER SENTENCED (By Telegraph—Press Association t CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Admitting six, changes of theft of handbags, involving £3O, Alice Beatrice Tootell (38), married, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate, Mr Mosley. According to the police accused was a bagsnatcher who worked to a system, but tried it once too often. ...The police said the woman’s practice was to go to the showroom of a drapery firm and poke about, “trying on a hat or coat, and wait her chance while someone else was being served. She i!would then pick up the customer’s bag apd make She Was’caught through' tendering a cheque at a shop from a bag which she had previously stolen. This cheque had been ’ stopped, so she was apprehended. In Tnany cases bags were taken from people who could ill afford to lose them. The woman admitted burning bags and keeping the money. She was married, with five children, and had not been before the Court previously.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 August 1931, Page 6
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