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NZ Truth, Issue 198, 3 April 1909, Page 5

George Albyius Williams is an unfortunate importunate young man who is crippled m. both legs and is deformed m the . left arm. He's a sight that would move a wooden J oss to pity, but just now this young man is doing three months', hard as a vagrant. Recently he selected Keefton, . because miners are soft sort of chaps, as the scene of begging operations, ajid, armed with a card, on which was printed alleged poetry entitled "A Cripple Boy's Appeal," with a footnote explaining he was collecting money with which to purchase a pair of artificial feet, the misfit struck trouble. When pinched he had £24 11s 4d m his possession, a New South Wales Post Office bank book showing £188 to his credit, while an. American' savings bank book showed him as being on the way to become a millionaire with 160 dollars. George cadged, with a system. He possessed cards with the cripple boy's appeal printed f in four diiterent languages, and passports that were found on him showed that he had travelled the world a bit. Apparently, the horribly deformed creatures of European and Asiatic countries beat George out of sight, hence his ■exploitation of New Zealand. Pity him one must, but when deformities help to make cadgers of his type bloated boodlers, a Reefton' Bench of Jay Pees can't be blamed for giving him three months' gaol and a talking to m addition. An aged mother m San Francisco was mentioned by the alms-cadger, but the hearts of two Jay Pees were like stone*