SINGULAR MISTAKE OF A BEGGAR.
Ax the Bristol Police-court, a womau ;having ia< bandage.) over,: one-. :eye, r and 1 .'dressed as. a widow,- was charged. witS jbegging , by-means of a'-forged" petition. - jThe handwriting of .the.petition, purporting, to,; by the Eev Mr Black—, burne, vicar of Long Ashton, was at once by the magistrate aud the officials of tho Court to be identical with quite a volume'of manuscript which, the 'clerk/said they had somewhere stowed, away in the Court., They all proceedul ■■ from one man who obtained- his living »:;• iwriting them; but the curious parfc<pf the case whs the singular, mistake fc* prisoner had mad", and which led toJw'V apprehension.; she was the' lins, a pital:
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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1930, 30 December 1874, Page 3
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116SINGULAR MISTAKE OF A BEGGAR. Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1930, 30 December 1874, Page 3
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