GRAPPLE WITH ROBBER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 308, 29 December 1937, Page 7

GRAPPLE WITH ROBBER

YOUNG WOMAN’S COURAGH MELBOURNE POLICE CHAS® MELBOURNE, Dec. 18. Seeing two housebreakers escaping from a neighbour’s home a young woman grappled with one. The man struggled and broke away. Both men ran into d ?nse scrub beside the Yarra. Two men were arrested later by police on the Outer Circle Bridge. Miss Winigred McKeown, of Yarra Street, Alphington, saw the men leap from a lounge room window of Mr. Murdoch Cribbes’ home in Yarra Street. They had been disturbed by a woman visitor to the house, from which Mrs. Cribbes was temporarily absent. As they ran past her Miss McKeown seized one of the men, but he broke free. Police patrol cars were sent to Alphington, where the police spread along the river bank. They were told that two men had taken refuge in thi undergrowth. While the police searched two men broke from cove.’*, and were pursued through the yard of the Australian Paper Mills factory, where they climbed an Bft. fence with top strands of barbed wire. The men ran on to the bridge into the arms of another police patrol. The police allege that diamond rings and other jewellery, valued at £35, were found in che possession of the two men who were captured.