Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25
Bill Introduced in the Chamber
Of Deputies Providing for the
Establishment Of Labor Colo
MES to Which Vagabonds and
Mendicants Will Be Sent.
Paris Swarms with Sham Blind,
Sham Cripples, Sham Deaf and
Dumb. and Other Humbugs
Who Wheedle Livelihood
Out of the Charitable.

all who passed that way. one day he
made use Of an insulting expression
because l would not give him aims.
and in my Indignation l told him that
his blindness was mere sham. In n
moment he rushed at mo with his
stick raised, forgetting that he could
not see, and ! had to beat a nasty re-
treat into the station.
Not long afterward ] came across
the same fellow In another part of the
town; he was in Il perambulatnr and
was being wheeled about by a lad who
implored the public not to forget his
blind and helpless father.
BLIND" BURGLAR
Fortunately l had friend at the
Prefecture and l reported the affair
to him, The police were told to watch
the man and 1t was not long before
they discovered that this blind beggar
was the chief of a gang of thieves who
had committed an important burglary
only week or two before. The man
was arrested with his acconplices. tried
at the assizes and sentenced 10 five
years solitary confinement. 1t was
proved at the trial that he had com.
mitted no fewer than 80 burglai1es!"
TRICKS OF THE TRADE.
But not every sham beggar is SO dan
gerouS as the POictiers man with the
blue spectacles. Take, for instance,
the two brothers who used to walk
and possibly still do-the Rue Monge
and Boulevard ST. Germain. one had
acquired trick of doubling his leg
up under him as he hobbled along. The
other dragged his leg after him. They
had both been wounded in battle" and
their earnings were 20 to % francs Il
day. They were so thrifty that they
even turned to account the slices OF
bread which charitable folk would give
them. Other beggars throw the bread
away in disdain. These, however, sold
II to an agent" or, in other words, a
receiver of stolen goods, ut Clignan
court who in his turn had customers
for 1t among bourgeois who kept dogs.
Still more curious is the case of an
eN-solicitor's clerk who lost his stua-
tion after borrowing 900 francs from
his employers desk. This man, hav-
ing turned professional beggar, paradcs
an amputated leg through the streets
Of Paris for nine months in the year
As soon as July comes he starts for the
seaside in a variety troupe, Of which
he is star dancer on stills. The eN-
solicitors clerk has not character
for responsibility to maintain like II
confrere who works regularly the great
cafes In the nelghborhood of the opera
and lives in dignifled ease at Asnieres,
where he Is supposed to be something
at the ministry of justice"
MANUFACTURED CRIPPLES.
There are, OF course. swarms OF
sham cripples In Paris. but there arG
also real ones, victims of the most
fendish brutality az the following alb
solutely authentic incident will show.
Some time ago n friendly official of tho
prefecture of police gave NJ. Berry
warning Of the arrival from Spain OF
about 100 outside jatte," as the French
call cripples who, having lost both
legs or the use Of them, drag them
selves along ON IA kind of large bowl.
They had come up for the famous
Gingerbread fair and We're 10 be
found located in and about the Place
du Trone. NJ. Berry hurried thither
and found that the band already had
received notice from the police to quit
French territory. one of the party