GIVING TO THE POOR

Evening Star, Issue 19198, 15 March 1926, Page 12

GIVING TO THE POOR

A WHITECHAPEL SENSATION. LONDON, February 27. Police wore summoned to Buxton street, Whitechapel, which was besieged all day by throngs of poor people awaiting the return of a mysterious shab-bily-dressed man who last night was reported to hare handed out £lO and £1 notes, saying; “It’s from God.” The police could not discover the man’s identity, but the ‘ Westminster Gazette ’ says that ho is an employee of Mr Bernard Baron, a millionaire tobacco manufacturer and chairman of barrens, Ltd., who told an inteiwiewer that it was a “small matter.” Yesterday morning the man visited a fish pickling shop and a dingy house, opposite which he deposited a wad of over £IOO in notes in response to a pile of pitiful letters. Immediately the cry went up; “He’s here!” A huge crowd gathered, and the man escaped by a back door. Two poor girls who were detected entering an underground station received envelopes containing several pounds. The occupants of a llsh shop and other dwellings visited were forced to barricade the doors and windows, the crowd restively shouting to them to hand out the money.