Show AR ARE i iSA SA iI i I WOMEN ARE THE VICTIMS OF SNEAKING TH THUGS GS Many Empty Purses Have Reached the Police Woman Loses 3 The satchel snatchers seemingly are reaping a pretty prell good harvest hanest In the elt city and the confess that It Is Isa isa a latho unique and anel effective manner of stealIng The thief takes but very little chance of being apprehended while turning the trick because the victim kUm Is always an unsuspecting wo we weman woman man and the deed is done In the even lag ing whoa when Identification is almost im impossible possible Most of the purses grabbed contain money and other valuables so the act actis actis is aha always s a pro profitable table one for the thief Once the satchel Is In the pos possession session of the thief he simply slips I Into a dark street ot or behind a bill billboard billboard board t takes kes the valuable from the thc handbag and throws the bag away There are arc a number of handbags at atthe attile tile the police pollee station today awaiting claimants Mrs Irs Ralph Wiggins had het hel satchel taken taleen from her hor Sunday night anti and it was found yesterday on lower Twenty seventh street and brought to the sta sla station tion The purse contained S 8 In cash when hen It was taken from morn her but when found It empty The purse was identified as hers because when the thIef grabbed it she Ghe clung to It so tenaciously that the handle was I pulled from it H When picked up yes es esterday a piece of wire had he been en sup supplanted I planted for a handle I |