BAG-SNATCHER FOILED
CHAIN ON WOMAN'S WRIST An unsuccessful attempt to snatch a bag from a woman was made by a man near the corner of Mount Albert Road and Belmont Avenue about 11 o'clock on Thursday night. The man disappeared, and detectives are making efforts to trace him. The incident occurred shortly after Miss Louisa Sexton, of 6 Belmont Avenue, alighted from a tramcar in Mount Albert Road not far from lier homo. She was walking toward the corner of Belmont Avenue when a niafl ran up from behind her and attempted to snatch her bag. Fortunately Miss Sexton had a chain attached to the bag Wrapped round her wrist, and the man failed to tug it away. He did not repeat the attempt, but disappeared. Miss Sexton said she did not'hear the man approaching, as ho was wearing sand-shoes.- J
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 10
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