HANDBAG ROBBERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1941, Page 5

HANDBAG ROBBERY

THE AUCKLAND INCIDENT ACCUSED MAKES CONFESSION. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. (By Telegraph— Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 17. A full confession of his part in the handbag robbery on the forenoon of October 28 was made by Victor George Mosen, aged 21, labourer, when charged in the Magistrate’s Court with robbing Colin Jackson of a bag containing cash and cheques of a total value of £648 and with using personal violence to Jackson. Mosen pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

After formal evidence had been given Detective Gordon produced a statement signed by Mosen in which the latter stated he had watched the messenger from the Waitemata Trading Company over two or three weeks. On the forenoon of October 28 he waited from 9.30 outside an hotel in Hobson Street for the message boy to leave the shop for the bank. He followed him to Victoria Street, approached him from the back and snatched the bag. The boy held on to the bag for a moment and it was necessary to tap him on the arm to make him let go, Mosen said. He then ran through the hotel to Durham Street and handed the bag of money to a man who was “in on the job” but whose name Mosen would not give. They met later and the money was split into four parts. He would not say who the others were. Mosen said his share was £BO, which he spent on rental cars, some champagne and giving some girls a good time. He spent the last £8 by backing Beau Vite in the Melbourne Cup.