The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-01
WAY
BEGGARS "GRAE"
Member of Society of One
Armed Talks.
TELLS OF EXPERIENCES
RELATES how EIGHTIES AND
''LEFEIEs" woo CoIN.

a FTER being Initiated into the "ea
81 ciety of the Oue-Armed. Gearz.
j Wilson last evening exposed o.
The Herald the methods by which rs.
members Of This organization of b---
cars graft the salt Lake public n.
related his own experiences as. with
one coat sleeve empty he solicited aims
IN the streets.
Ihe man was arrested SATURDAY
evening bE Detectives Chase and Es.-.
TOT begging. According To EEi sou who
- years Ola, the cnaritabig-iucII
81 1-e eils are daily feeding and night
~ lo46lue an least half q dozen healthy
men, who Dy day are oue-arfred objects
ol Pity and subjects for aims. bv ufrr.
-No-aftned ana barrO8m r0usIa bouts
Even She sieuths failed TO Dercefva -r.-
deception that was be.le practicsE r-
Fil7ou until he arrived al Jae sta.C.
and was searched
The way of the oue-arrea rartfa.-...
is easy it be isn't caught. ON The drrar
hand detection means ample Im- f..
lne city prison during which 10 rera..
wilson, q novice al the game was SEM
fenced yesterday afternoon Bv judge
Dlenl To spend the next sixty DAYS FL.
Jam But the prospect IS aHurUg If the
stories told Wilson by old brother meme
D3is or tne one-armed league are lrla.
Wilson Tells His story
Wilson's experience with the mem
pers OF this strange clan. drawn r.-
FetheF by natural instinct is thus t.-l
lu nls own words
Yes. I'm In Tor sixty DAYS for bez-
sing puL &c was the Irst time T ever
did anything like lhat iu nav Tfe
lt seemed easy enough after the
punch had told me how TO stick mT arm
under my blouse and conceal FL fn n-
trousers. They said a fellow could l-
aions without working or worrying
II met the men, whose ages ranged
from p 10 40 years. iu a Commercial
street saloon Saturday night Just after
supper. They saw that uas nearly
broke ana one Of them whispered IJ his
companions and then came over toward
me, The whole bunch engaged nae fr
conversation learned that had been
in town only two DAYS and then pro-
posed that / toy the 0ne-aTmed STUNT
''Righties" and "Lsfties7 Explained.
"I asked them ali about II. Z guess
I must have been "a little drunk or
think I would have tried TO get along
without begging. They were willing
enough To explain Some were IaEties'
and some 'righGes as they said. -he
former c0Uceaiug their left and the
could manage the right arm better SD
they fixed me mp I'm the back part OF
the saloon and Z started up the street.
u walked up one side OF tEe principal
street ana down the other. ana struck
every one that locked good 7 DOME ra-
member how many 7 asked FOR money
or how much J got, because the officers
pulled me in before 7 had chance I'd
stop and count"
Wilson had been iU Salt Lake but
fOrty-eight hours before De fell sfouI
of the oue-armed men. II is supposed
that the latter WOO many converts t1
their easy-g0inE method OF living
Wilson has been working iu California
for the past two years. His home .=
in Boston. where his parents have re-
sided for over twenty years He said
it was his intention 0n coming here 90
join the army. but his latest eHrsugle-
meut viii necessarily postpone this ae-
ton.