A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . AND BEGGAKS AND BEGGING. 660 Applications sent by post usually ask for an answer to be sent to someplace not easy of access in the suburbs of London, or to some address inEngland, Scotland, or Ireland, whence the letters are re-transmitted toLondon. These letters advance an infinitude of pleas for assistance, all ofwhich are without foundation. Sometimes also appeals are sent from someforeign country on behalf of some non-existent person in distress, who isalleged to be a distant relation of the person written to. In the cases of t
A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . AND BEGGAKS AND BEGGING. 660 Applications sent by post usually ask for an answer to be sent to someplace not easy of access in the suburbs of London, or to some address inEngland, Scotland, or Ireland, whence the letters are re-transmitted toLondon. These letters advance an infinitude of pleas for assistance, all ofwhich are without foundation. Sometimes also appeals are sent from someforeign country on behalf of some non-existent person in distress, who isalleged to be a distant relation of the person written to. In the cases of travellers newly arrived from India, or persons havingrelations in India, an impostor introduces himself to them by carefully got-up references to persons and incidents connected with Indian life, and thenwinds up by soliciting a subscription towards opening a college in the Hima-layas or towards supporting some other pseudo-Indian institution. Last year female members of the gang called on benevolent persons, repre-senting that they were the daughters of peo
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