Mass yesterday, three purses disappeared.
The official Xinhua news agency said that the total value of those three purses was $23,800.
The first two or three purses are $50, some are $100, and the ninth is $250.
The father earned two purses of about £7 — big money for a family of seven sharing a two-room apartment.
There were two purses reported stolen last year, the police said — a slow week's worth at some bars.
After Tenzing climbed Everest, two purses were got up for him, each to buy him a house.
The court said that Mr. Shi had thrown away the remaining four purses the day after the theft after realizing they would be hard to sell; three of the purses are still missing.
Carrying the Audio Clutch might look cooler than toting a speaker dock, except people may wonder why you are carrying two purses.
"In Barcelona you get fined more for double-parking or wandering around with your shirt off than for stealing three purses in one day".
A spokesman for the Beijing police said by telephone on Thursday that the police had detained a suspect on Wednesday evening and had recovered some of the missing seven purses, although he declined to say how many.
