A WARM MON!

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 24 November 1927, Page 3

A WARM MON!

GLASGIE’S BEST BEGGAR. 13ilbs. OF COPPERS. London, Nov 12. 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. Hie pockets, and there was naturally no shortage of them, contained £4 7/6 in silver and a multitude of copjmra. The latter whep weighed turned the scale at 134 pounds. In addition, there were thousands of cigarette butts, handfuls of cigarette tobacco, lying loose among the money and tlie other articles, and hundreds of used and unused matches. In another pocket was n war savings certificate and many useless cheques. These, lie complained bitterly. had been given to him by fellow-countrymen who had always been called away or suffered a lastminute caution just before signing them. He had kept them, however, on the principle that they look up little room and might some day eotne in handy. The extraordinary beggar also had a collection of purses, keys knives, rings, pipes and papers. In his “second-insido” 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 hard buns and three hard breakfast rolls. The only thing missing was haggis. An unsympathetic conn fined the enterprising beggar £2, and told him to pay it in coppers.