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Show BEGGARS LIVING IN PALATIAL RESIDENCE I Chicago Authorities Unearth a Very ' Strange Combination of Mendicants. Men-dicants. CHICAGO, April 0. Living in a richly rich-ly furnished house on the west side. a. family of beggars has been located after af-ter seven years' search. The long hunt ended when Superintendent .Tames Mln-nlck Mln-nlck of the West Side Bureau of Charities Chari-ties took Into custody three small children chil-dren of Mrs. Missouri Boehni. Two hours later five other children were arrested ar-rested and Judge Brown in the Juvenile court put them in the care of court officers of-ficers or sent them to institutions. In the family home probation officers found n piano, expensive rugs and draperies dra-peries and furniture of costly woods. There were closets and chcsis llllel with clothing, and in the basement were bales of clothing apparently prepared for sale. When the family was taken to court Mrs. Bochm was declared by Minnick to have been for ten yenrs a beggar In Austin. Oak park and the west side of Chicago Minnick testified that she snitt out her children to beg, and in the lant four years more thun 100 letters have been written to the Bureau of Charities by persons Interested In tho plcan of the begging children. |