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SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927.
STREET COLLECTORS.
HOME OFFICE COMMITTEE'S. SUGGESTION.
The remarkable case in which Among the suggestions contain- the vicar of a country parish wheed in the report of the Home during the Police Court proceed-Office Departmental Committee on ings at Marylebone was referred the supervision of charities is to as "The Reverend Mr. X" was that the minimum age for stroot taken at the Did Bailey, London, collectors should be raised to 18. before the Kecerder in mail week.
The Committee do not recom- William Fraest Piggin (25), amend the institution of any uni- motor driver, of Praed Street. versal system of the supervision Paddington, pleaded guilty to ut over the collecting of Charities, tering a letter demanding money hut recommend that the Charity with menaces from the vicar and Commissioners should inquiro. inte obtaining from him the sum of cases that they think are not pró £1,367 with Intent to steal the perly administered. They also re- same, and the case was put back commend the institution of a sys until the Recorder (Sir Ernesttom of licensing for door-to-door Wild) should have an opportunity of considering the sentence.
Later, Piggin was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
collections
and collections in places of entertalument and pub- lic-houses.
An interesting comment is made At the Magisterial hearing it by the Committee on the subject was stated that the vicar had had
of patrons. Our notice, they to sell his vicarage in conse- state, has been called to the cure- quence of the blackmail, which ex-
lessness with which people hold- tended over a period of three ing prominent positions allow their years. Prisoner appeared in the names to be associated with un- dock smartly dressed. The indict-substantial charities. It cannot ment contained 32 counts, all of them relating to the obtaining of
money.
Broken Promise.
Sir Travers Humphreys, for the proscention. said the clergyman was 68 years of age. He had the misfortune to meet prisoner, who told him he was connected with the theatrical profession.
An incident oceurred, and later prisoner told the clergyman that detectives were after him and he wanted £00 to leave the country, The clergyman gave the money. and this was the beginning of a Jong Course of blackmail. In 1924. becoming desperate. the clergyman consulted a solicitor, who interviewed the accused, and obtained from him a statement acknowledging that his statements to the clergyman were unfounded and promising not to trouble him any more. This held good for seven months and then he again persuaded the clergyman to pay him money.
Counsel read a letter in which the clergyman implored accused to let him alone. He wrote-" have had to sell my living and leave my parish, which, I dearly love. I do not know how to find more money. I have been helped by my brother and now can do no mare,"
The Recorder described the let ter as very pathetic.
Contemplated Suicide. Other passages in it referred to the clergyman contemplating
snicide.
be doubled that this practice. is exceedingly mischievous, and wo urge that such people should make the most careful inquiries before they allow their names to be used as those of patrons or members of any charitable organisation.
With regard to charity ballots the Committee say the most ob- jectionable feature is that even when they are well eonducted a very large proportion of the pro- seeds finds its way into the hands of professional promoters.
They do not recommend that any control should be instituted over ballots organised on behalf of charities as such, but in com- man with any other method of raising money for charitable pur- poses they would fall within the scheme outlined for providing for the representation of a charity to The Charity Commissioners.
PUZZLE FOR COURT.
MAN'S NATIONALITY UNKNOWN.
"Who is he," was the question raised in an aliens prosecution ease before Mr. Granham Camp- hell at Bow Street Police Court, London.
A tall young man wearing over- alla, who had given the name of Valentino, was charged Amos with being an alien, entering the country without permission and Finally, in December 1926, said failing to register with the police. counsel, the clergyman was per-The evidence was that defendant suaded by his solicitor to allow was found standing outside the the Director of Public Prosecu- Spanish Consulate in Bloomsbury tions to be communicated with.
pretending that he was deaf and dumb. He wrote on a piece. of paper that he was a Portuguese, whereupon he was taken to the There he Portuguese Consulate. again pretended to be deaf and Prisoner had dumb.
Inspector Crome said he had known prisoner from boyhood. He had done very little work since leaving school, and associated with bad characters. His parents were respectable.
been associated with two others He wrote out a statement to the in demanding money by blackmail effect that he arrived on a ship in from a fish merchant. They had South Shields in 1924. that he obtained £500, of which the worked in the docks until 1925, prisoner had 300. He spent the when an explosion left him deaf maney obtained from the clergy and dumb.
cara and man in buying motor motor cycles.
Det-Inspector Allan, of New Seatland Yard, said from August to October 1924, Piggin appeared
The police had inquired into this atatement, but found it to be had Accused absolutely false. since stated that he was Rumanian, but could speak Por-
to have obtained £470 from an-tuguese, and that he arrived in ather source, while still contine South Shields last February and ing to blackmail the clergymian, walked to London. He declined The Recorder, describing the to give any further information prisoner as a cold, callous, and and an officer said it was impos- wicked blackmailer, said that but sible to deport him until his na- for his youth he would have been tionality had been established. sentenced to penal servitude for life.
IRISH PEER IN STRANGE CLAIM.
£50,000 BY WOMAN LUNATIC
135 YEARS AGO.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds are involved in a claim made by Viscount Bangor, of Castle Ward, County Down, and athers
of ngainst
fortune £50,000 left by a lunatic 135 years
told 3 Daily Lady Bangor Chronicle representative that so far as she knew the date of the hearing of this strange petition of right. which will come before the Chancery Division this term, had not been fixed.
With accrued -interest the amount has greatly increased.
of It was in the possession Maria L'Eepine, who died a luna
Accused was accordingly re- manded.
In order to chtain the widest field of recruitment for permanent commissions in the R.A.F., the Air Council have decided to increase the number of prize cadetships offered for competition annually from three to 12.
tic. No heirs, to the property DROWSINESS AFTER MEALS came forward-and the estate re- vorted to the Crown.
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