Only $2 was netted by a purse snatcher Saturday afternoon when he grabbed a pocketbook from the coat pocket of a negro nurse as she was standing on the sidewalk near the Kress store entrance. The thief, described by the girl as a tall, yellow negro, fled westward on Main street and disappeared down Corcoran street.
The negro nurse, with her small charge in her arms, and accompanied by another nurse and a child, tried to follow the man but he was too fast for her. A policeman took up the pursuit but was unable to find the negro.
Several nearby persons saw the theft. The man quickly reached his hand in the girl’s pocket and was gone before she could hardly give an alarm.
From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, April 27, 1924
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