Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — A Battle of Parts Beggars. [ARTICLE]

A Battle of Parts Beggars.

London Daily Telegraph. People who were quietly passing along the Avenue de l’Opera and the corner of the Rue Louis lo Grand in Paris lately were horrified to behold a battle of beggars. The combat was due to keen competition between the belligerant parties in the matter of alms. A burly medicant known as •Ironleg” was plying his trade in company with a female coibnanion, when a blind man led by his dtmghter passed by whining energetically for eleemosynary aid. The female-friend of “Ironleg” accordingly called the blind man opprobrious names, whereupon she was vigorously attacked by the latter’s daughter, and words and blows were exchanged between the to a terrible extent. While r the women were at war * ‘lronleg” charged at the blind beggar, whom he speedily flung to the ground. In his fall the sightless medicant broke one of his limbs and was carried to the hospital, where the damaged member had to be amputated. “Ironleg” in the mean time has been justly incarcerated pending his trial for assault and battery, and it will be a long time before the philanthropic persons who, disbursed daily donations for his support will see him in his accustomed corner in the Avenue de l’Opera.