Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1874 — A Rich Beggar Dismantled. [ARTICLE]

A Rich Beggar Dismantled.

Yesterday an old man, poorly dressed, limping as if very lame, and wearing green glasses, entered a saloon on the River road and asked for mopey, saying that he lived at a certain number on Seventh street, and that- his wife was very ill and he too old and lame to work. In the saloon was a...man living -at the very number given on Seventh street, and he branded the old man as a liar. The beggar then said it was Seventeenth street, but he was'so confused that the half-dozen men present determined to see how he was made up. He shouted “police” as they approached him, but the men locked the door and threw him down. The green glasses covered as good a pair of eyes as were in the room, and no cause for his limping could be found. He had his left hand tied up, but they jerked the rags off and found no hurt or wound. Lastly, they fished out of his pockets $38.45 in small 'money, as he had begged it, and discovered that he had a bank-book on a Chicago savings bank with $450.50 credited to him. lie made a great fuss as they went on to expose him, and finally promised that he would leave Detroit by the Pacific express and never come here again. He claimed to have begged most of the money in Toledo. One of the men accompanied the old knave to the Central depot and remained there until he saw him move away on the train. — Detroit Free Press.