Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-12 | Page 2 | Pedestrians Humbugged by Resourceful Beggar

PEDESTRIANS HUMBUGGED BY RESOURCEFUL BEGGAR With, carbolic acid J. E. O'Keefe, a professional beggar, blistered his arm and worked a crude gamo on the sympathetic sym-pathetic and gullible public that landed him behind the bars of the city jail as an impostor Saturday. "Representing that he was a cripple and exhibiting his arm, to which he had applied acid and cream, which gave the color of truth to his pretensions. O'Keefe separated several unsuspecting persons whom no approached from alms, but Policeman McOormick got "wise" to his humbug and throw him into nail on a charge of vagrancy, lie cither will be driven from the city or given a term upon the rock pile.