EX-OFFICERS AS ORGANGRINDERS.
A PROSECUTION RESULTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Jan. 11. In connection with a sentence of imprisonment on a military ex-officer or-zan-gjjjider on a charge of begging in the West End, investigation disclosed that •p'insioned ex-officers who had been organ-grinding in the West End were living in luxury at hotelfi. They were earning up to £2O per week. It was not unusual to see queues of women in Regent Street waiting to drop coins into the caps of ex-officers, who were generally masked. The scandal had become so glaring that the Ex-Officers’ AssociatkZ instituted the prosecution with a view to cbiusk’pg it-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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105EX-OFFICERS AS ORGANGRINDERS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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