Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-25
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that hip business, l called in the police
surgeon, who took her to a hospital and
after looking her over reported that she
had no need whatever for the crutches and
high heel. On searching them found
several hundred dollars in their possession.
lots of express and money order receipts;
'dockets,' showing the mans graft to be
a deaf and dumb stunt; several grips full
of phony jewelry, maps and routes with
populations marked, and ledgers' showing
their joint receipts to be over thirty dol
lars per day
Il wrote Milwaukee about them and re-
ceived the following letter:
~. N. Tillard, Chief of Police, Altoona,
Pa:
Dear Sir-Replying to yours of the
10th instant, with photographs of R. E
and A A, will say that both of these
young people belong TO Milwaukee, but are
not married to the knowledge of their
parents though they have been keeping
company some three years. P A, a
brother and girl named B. are supposed
to be with them.
The girl was never known to be af-
f1icted with hip disease while here. They
are certainly imposters and should have
been committed instead of fined
This was signed by John F. Jansen,
chief of police.
Used Crutch and Cane.
IAN old gentleman who had been period
ically panhandIing the city for years was
arrested. With the aid Of crutch and
cane he dragged along an apparently abb
solutely paralyzed leg. The police surgeon
looked him over, applied a small battery
and told him to get up and walk. He We
hemently protested that he was unable to
move the leg. After the doctor left l told
him he would be committed for six months
and locked him up to reflect. About an
hour later he told a turnkey that he
thought another application of that bat
terry would do him lot of good We
turned on light current, when he sprang
to his feet, walked with an officer to the
depot, and still have the crutches He
subsequently wrote me from Chicago that
our battery had effected wonderful
cure, but he was afraid it would not be
permanent, as he felt the old trouble COM
ing back
the imposture known as throwing OUT 1
had some photographs made of an old ex-
pert who does business all over Pennsyl-
vania, and is still believed in most towns
to be a cripple. 1 have some copies of
these pictures here and will be glad to
show them to any one interested.
Some of the people / have mentioned
are purely and simply beggars, but the
majority, If not criminals themselves, have
criminal affiliations that render them dan
gerous persons to have lettering about a
town, to say nothing of the nuisance and
annoyance their begging makes them
to quiet citizens; therefore all shoe string
men, pencil and court plaster peddlers,
umbrella fixers and any other graft that
would cover criminal yegg is barred in
our city.
Driven to Small Cities.
'My only apology for inflicting upon you
a paper that some of you may find full OF
trite statements and well-known facts is
to call the attention of some of my breth-
rem in the profession who may not have
given this phase of the police business spe-
cific attention to the fact that, driven out
of the larger cities, these people are in
increasing numbers infesting the smaller
cities and towns and becoming yearly a
greater menace to life and property. Co.
operation on the part of all the smaller de-
partments will make it increasingly diff
cult for them to flourish, and they will
@nally be compelled to abandon the road"