RUSE TO GAIN MONEY

Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 5

RUSE TO GAIN MONEY

VISITORS TO ABBEY DUPED. Tlie authorities at Westminster Abbey have been troubled by several forms of trickery Intel}’. While visitors wore gathered about the grave ol the Unknown Warrior the other day, a man collapsed in what appeared to be a fit. A woman with him tearfully informed the sympathetic visitors that he was an cx-serviccinan and her husband, and that a.s he was out of work they were both starving. In a lew seconds she had collected a fair sum of money, and the man recovered. Next day the scene was repeated; but alter it had been performed a third time, the vergers told the pair that the Abbey was not the proper place for its enactment. Another trick is the familiar attempt, to obtain money from the altering This is usually made by women, who plead that they have inadvertently contributed to the collection more than they can afford, and suggest that a certain amount bo “refunded.” The vergers aiso continually receive requests from people, who declare that they have lost their purses and have no money for their fare homo. Most of them apparently live a very long way from Loudon.