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Show BEGGARS' TltUaT IN FULL BLAST. P.culiar Orranizat on Discovered and Broken Up in Caill'ii iiia. Active cognizance lc being takon by the pollen of a tiulquo organization which leeeutly came Into exlsieiau In San Fiauclsco. It Is known as thu .looe(iers' dub," a lltllo given It by its founders, It consists or about forty piufc.-sotiitl beggiirs, who haru entered Into u rort of trift to eoo'iol the busi-nest busi-nest of solteltliig alms on the public streets. Wlthlu tho luat thrco days no less than fifteen leading promoters of the begging monopoly liayu been thrown Into jail by onlor of Chief Lees. Yesterday Yes-terday the club received Its direct blow when John McDowell, whu Is audited with being Its prexldent, and John Dunlop, his liuht hand man. were taken Into custody by Policemen John Morlarlty und W. J. Hinllh. Two days previously tho "'dispatcher" of the Mooelicrs club, "Shy" O'Urloit and 'Scoity" Hogan, wore arrested by tho same olllcers. Thopolico learned of -tho "Monch-urs'" "Monch-urs'" organized ex'stenco about u week ago, and as many of thu forty aro suspected sus-pected of being thieves is well as beggars, beg-gars, It was tlutermliied to break up their club. Polleeineti Morlarlty and Smith wero specially detailed to ac-eonplmh ac-eonplmh the tusk. Their Investigations Investiga-tions resulted In two or three arrests tho Urat day, and then a weak-kneed member of the begKlug club disclosed thu eeciotH of lis meeting place, membership mem-bership and wot king plain, His story has since b'it amply verified by the two patrolmen. Slneo tho Inception of the ''Mooch, eis' club." about four weeks ago, lis members has met between 0 mid 10 o'elock every morning on opposite cor-pgr cor-pgr at tb,e Intewcticm of Third and n Mission street. On each piva.-dlug lilnlll. Ibe nllleuts mml- out it e.hedulu of (he "gnoil" m nets lu i lie elty, nll.it-In' nll.it-In' a rotilo or district to every "Mo.icher." As faM as the "Moncher " reached the iiiei'ling pince they cio assigned to iHlr .,.nis for the il y by "DNpatchotV h) O'Biloii and Scotly" Megan, win, who linulsheil wltli ci-pies f thu I egclng schedule. Dully chaugiiH wviu tuado In the se.ht-dtilo se.ht-dtilo lor ll.o purpOMj of evading thu police. Al night the u'Hiig made Us general lie.iiltiiurters lo u s iloon in M" Mls-lon li eel, Pohcein.in Moriai lty suvs that thu prnprletor or Hui saloon admitted that the aver igo "Mooeher"pent Irom in 8.1 ti night In his plneu Tor driuks. Fioni what they lu learned, thu two policemen bellevo that, a great deal or potty thieving which lnn pl.iee dtn lag the holiday t.mu him y he nttilbuted lo menibeih or ilm ".Moochers' club." In orguii.zlug the c.ub, Its cider spirits spir-its invited only ncilvu . ud inoie or less alile.bodled bengals to become liietll-liei, liietll-liei, A set or fii.es was then drawn up, thouhbifonu of which requlies eveiy tiieinberto lerraln from trespiisslug on another ".MooeueiV' de'lgouteil begging beg-ging ground, Violation or HiU rule wa puninlnililu with exptiiiioii Horn tliu e.tt'i. Djus were a so llxe. , lu he used In paying the olllcers ami cllc-i nickers, and lor iliu proieuiioii of "MooeheiV who might fall I iiu fiu liaii U or dm police. To rimy out thu latter purpose, pur-pose, the club, as r'ioii its iuticuiiiry wariuhled thu stop, uig-igui legilcoiiu-iel legilcoiiu-iel lo dufeod thu at rusted "Moocllei'a" In the pol.cu court. Arthur Muck Is said by l'oliu-iuun Moriailty to im llm reguiar.y lutalued itiioruey of the ".Wonciiars' cluii." lit has alremly appealed ap-pealed lu court for some of the "Moo-cheis" "Moo-cheis" whom Motlariiy and Smith cup-.lured, cup-.lured, " In th-lr flht against the "Moodier'" the pollcuiiio taklut 1 ha pr camion to bWu.ir out complaints in eaeh casn where an arre-i Is made. Judgu Con-tun Con-tun ls-ued tho complaints yesterday agiiliihtDunlo.iinil MpDjWvII. Ai.uiii-her Ai.uiii-her id other cniuilaints baye been is sited agilust "Moouher" who aru hi HI ut JiirHc. S.iti Fr.tui'isco CiiiouiciO. |