ORGANISED BEGGARS
LEADER’S CARS & HOUSES
POLICE RAID A BANQUET LONDON, Jan. 17. The arrest by the Bucharest police of 200 cripples has revealed an extraordinary story of profitable, organised begging. The leader of the band is Tanasi Burdujan, who is well known in the main streets and squares of Bucharest, and who is legless and travels in a hand-propelled chair. The Bucharest correspondent of the Times says the police discovered that Burdujan owns several houses, a motor car, and two taxicabs. He also possesses five motor-cycles, which he is unable to ride, but which he demolishes and reconstructs as a hobby. It w r as revealed that the arrested men collaborated on a profit-sharing basis, with proper book-keeping, and that few earned below £35 a month, which .is equivalent to the salary of a senior Rumanian civil servant. The police carried out the arrests during a raid on a banquet at which the beggars were celebrating a profitable day. Two police commissars and five constables have been dismissed as a result of the revelations.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 5
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