U. alumna struggles with would-be thief outside Eden

A University alumna struggled with a man trying to rob her in the Eden restaurant at 3701 Chestnut Street at 5:57 p.m. Wednesday, University Police said. Sergeant Michael Fink said the two became involved in a stuggle when the man attempted to grab the woman's purse. After a brief struggle, the man dropped the purse on the floor and fled. Another woman accompanied the fleeing would-be robber as he escaped in a four-door automobile, heading east on Chestnut Street from Eden. The alumna described her assailant as a 5' 8" tall, dark-complected black man in his late 20s, with a small mustache. He was last seen wearing a full-length yellow leather coat. The victim described the man's companion as a thin, straight-haired, 5' 2" tall black woman in her early 20s. The alumna incurred no injuries during the scuffle. In an unrelated attempted robbery, three men attacked two men on 40th and Locust streets at 1:35 a.m. yesterday and tried to rob them. Police said the three would-be robbers accosted their two victims, punching and pushing them while frisking their pockets, looking for money. Pedestrians in the vicinity intervened in the dispute, and the three black men fled in a dark-blue, late-model American vehicle. The robbers managed to steal nothing from the victims, both of whom were uninjured during the accident. The victims could not describe anything about their assailants beyond gender and skin color. In an unrelated incident, police reported the burglary of a Macintosh computer worth $2300 from a secured but unattended room in Williams Hall at 2:33 p.m. Wednesday. In another separate incident, police reported the theft of a Schwinn mountain bicycle worth $400 from a bike rack at Meyerson Hall. The rack was disassembled in the course of the theft, which was reported at 11:57 a.m. yesterday. Also, police reported the theft of a black Murray mountain bicycle worth $450 from the eastern rack at Vance Hall. A chain securing the bike to the rack was cut during the 12:11 p.m. robbery yesterday.

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