1.   A young boy pushed her over and snatched her purse as she fell.

2.   The thief snatched her purse and ran.

3.   The Mason reached over and snatched the purse, emptying about half of the contents into his own hand.

4.   A man who had snatched purses from three women in Brooklyn Monday morning died after being injured in a confrontation with relatives of one victim, the police said.

5.   He snatched two purses and held up a woman at an automated teller machine, placing a gun to her jaw.

6.   She watched him ride away, and wanted to stop him as though he had snatched a purse.

7.   When Jensen got out, the two men snatched her purse and ran back to the Cadillac, she said.

8.   A man snatched her purse near her apartment in the Watergate complex in downtown Washington where she was walking at night with her husband and daughter.

9.   A man snatched the purse of a US Supreme Court justice as she walked in downtown Washington, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.