bag snatcher

From then on, I decided to be a bag snatcher, too.

In Philadelphia, Mrs. Naomi Clegg lost her purse and door-key to a bag snatcher, wondered how she would get in, arrived home to find the door wide open, the place looted.

A few pages farther, warranting even less space, is the story of a Durban bag snatcher whose just received a 25-year jail sentence for his crimes against unsuspecting tourists strolling the beachside promenade at dusk.