EX-OFFICERS AS ORGAN GRINDERS
4 LONDON SCANDAL CHECKED BY PROSECUTION. London, January 11. In connection with the sentence of a month's imprisonment on a military exofiicer, now an organ-grinder, on a charge of begging in the West End, an investigation disclosed that pensioned ex-officers oigan-gri-iding in the West End are living in luxury in hotels. They are earning up no Jl2O a week. It is not unusual to see queues of women in Regent Street waiting to drop coins in the caps of the ex-officers, who are generally masked. The scandal became so glaring that the Ex-Officers’ Association instituted the prosecution, with a view to checkiug it.— Reuter-
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 93, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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108EX-OFFICERS AS ORGAN GRINDERS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 93, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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