One of the most daring pieces of sneak thievery and purse snatching happened when an unknown negro followed Miss Thelma Gaskins as she was wending her way home from her work at about 6:30 o’clock last night and as she was almost within the portals of her own front door, he?? His daring piece of work and made his get-away in the dark.
She is employed at the lumber office of Clyde Eby and had stopped in at Penny’s and purchased a pair of hose and had wrapped her week’s salary In the same bundle with the purchase and evidently the negro saw her put her change in the package and decided on his pursuit of her and made good his plan. A clerk in Penny’s store remembered seeing a couple of young negro men in the store at the same time that Miss gaskins was making the purchases but she too says it would be impossible to identify the boy.
Miss Gaskins says she was conscious that someone was following her and when she was passing the darkest part of her journey home, which was on New Street just in front of the school grounds, the negro passed her and stopped and pretended to be in the act of tying his shoe and as she passed him he raise dup and got in his dirty work.
The matter was immediately reported to the police but it is feared that it will be impossible to get any tangible clue as to the negro’s identity. Miss Gaskins lives with her father at 80 New Street.
From the front page of The New Bernian, Sunday, Nov. 16, 1924
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