BAG-SNATCHER caught
THREE MONTHS'IN GAOL. VICTIM; FAINTS ■IN COURT. ; ' ' •/ J At the Sydney Police Court recently ;' Frederick Reginald Folks, labourer, aged , 21, pleaded guilty to snatching a hand*, bag containing £3 So 3d, near the ntuni-t cipal markets. He was sentenced’ id - three months’ imprisonment with, hard labour. .' / ■■ - , 7/ \' ’■>* Elsie. Mclntosh said that 6he was ai married woman, from Grafton, bn. at ; visit to Sydney. About ,9.20 p.ni. she ™as near the markets. She'.was carry>« ing a number of parcels and a handbag! Suddenly defendant grabbed her bag, pulling with such force that she was. dragged into the gutter. She had tb relax her grip of the bag, and defendant' made off. ’ Several civilians saw the incident and gave chase. Accused waft caught after a chase of about half ni mile. ■' ; » Mrs. Mclntosh was so overwrought, thvt after giving her evidence’she faint* . cd in the court-room. . “I understand that . there, is a great) deal of this kind of crime about tbs city,” said the magistrate, in sentencing . Folks., “It must, be,'a. great shock tb woman to be/assailed in this way.” \
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1930, Page 9
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