A LIVING SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 20

A LIVING SAFE

MISEBLY PAEIS BEGGAB.

A street beggar, who turned out to I be a "living safe," was arrested recently in Paris' for begging on the terrace of a boulevard cafe (reports ' the London "Daily Chronicle"). The man, who gave his name as. Louis Latour, aged 52, was dressed in rags. He told the police that ho had had nothing for two days. Later it was discovered that the man's rags had several secret pockets, and that the beggar was simply "covered" with gold and bank i notes. The searchers produced from the various cleverly hidden pockets no j less than 15,000 francs (£120) in bank noteß and over 2000 francs in gold coins. The discomfited miser swore that this was all he had. But half an hour later he was found. in his cell counting a bnndle of 10-frane notes. Whereupon the Commissary of Police ordered that the man should be undressed, and all his clothes 'inspected. An additional 2000 francs in 10 and .20-franc notes were found in his shirt and 1000 francs in his hat. "Now take off your boots," said the police official. In the toeeaps about 1000 francs in gold were hidden. "Where did you get all that money?" questioned the. Commissary, "This is all my earnings after- begging for 30 years," was the poor man's reply.

cage hand-in-hand is a dolightf ul; prolude to their exhibition of deportment. Jack assists Bibi to her chair, helps to lay the table, and hands round the fruit salad to tho others beforo thinking of himself. Compare this behaviour with the light-hearted irresponsibility of John Daniel, the gorilla, who used to come by taxicab to the, Zoo for daily exhibition in the Lion House. The windows of his cab had to be kept shut because ho would insist on collecting the holmots of policemen on point duty.