ASSAILANT BREAKS LEG OF WOMAN, 84.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - A purse snatcher purse snatcher n (US) → persona que roba por el procedimiento del tirón purse snatcher n (US) → voleur m à l'arraché purse snatcher left an 84-year-old woman lying injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in a Valencia alley Tuesday and made off with her handbag. Madalin Walters, whose thigh and hip were seriously injured, was in fair condition in the emergency room at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, where she was to be admitted with a broken femur femur (fē`mər): see leg. , hospital spokeswoman Janice Newbold said. Sheriff's officials said Walters also suffered a serious bruise bruise or contusion Visible bluish or purplish mark beneath the surface of unbroken skin, indicating burst blood vessels in deeper tissue layers. Bruises are usually caused by a blow or pressure, but they may occur spontaneously in elderly persons. to her head. ``It's terribly sad, terribly sad,'' Newbold said. ``But she's in fair condition, so that's the good news.'' Walters was approached about 1:15 p.m. as she walked from the Canterbury Village condominiums on Lyons Avenue through a rear alley to the Albertson's shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into on Lyons and Orchard Village Road, deputies said. The thief grabbed her handbag in the crook of her arm and Walters tried to hold on, a deputy said. The man knocked her down and ran off with the bag. The purse held about $75 in cash and some credit cards. While Walters was being treated at the hospital, sheriff's deputies were searching the area for witnesses and for the purse. |
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