BEGGAR’S ENTERPRISE
GOOD BUSINESS IN SCOTLAND. LONDON, November 18. An indication of what private enterprise can accomplish in Scotland especially by a Scotsman, was forthcoming when a Glasgow beggar was arrested. The most amazing array of food and clothes and other odds and ends was found on him. He was swathed in five overcoats and three pairs of trousers, supported ably by three pairs of braces. His pockets, and there was naturally no shortage of them, contained £4/7/6 in silver, and a multitude of coppers/ The latter, when weighed turned the scale at 13Jlb. The extraordinary beggar also had a collection of purses, keys, knives, rings pipes, and papers. In his “second-inside” trouser pocket was a deposit receipt and just as the police believed they had found everything they made the most sensational haul of all. In the overcoat which he wore next to his clothes were two fiard buns, and three hard breakfast rolls. The only thing missing was haggis. An unsympathetic Court fined the enterprising beggar £2, and told h,lm to pay it in coppers.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1927, Page 2
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