| Show MAN WITH TWISTED UPS liPS FOUND IN REAL LIFE Special Correspondence CO Nov ov m mar MY r LONDON have learned from A I few lines Imes that a real lift life to that famous Sherlock Holm story The he Man Kan with the Twisted Twilled Lip Up tau bas just turned up In London but bUL It Is II doubtful It If th they y have been told how kow strikingly the true story resembles rel that i which was wa Imagined by b Dr Pr Conan ConanD Doyle D rl The with the th tit Twisted Lip was wu of ot course a professional pl street beggar bellar i iwho who however howver out of business buln hours i lived in i a South London suburb In I quite a stylish way ar no Ile II had bad a wife I Iwho who supposed him to be something In inthe II th the city to 10 which hi he h win went daily dall lie Ue operated In the vicinity of ot the London stock took exchange and lila his hi little mil game lame was to feign paralysis H lie pretended to sell matches but really relied on the gratuities which his hili hi pathetic appear appearance appearance appearance ance drew draw from and which made up quite a handsome Income Cecil d de Smith as a the man calU ca cat him himself self who WM wu arrested the other day da by 11 the Die police as an also Urea lives In a n South London suburb In ill H Ii comfortable co way 4 lie He too way was R supposed by hy his bis wife to bi be pursuing some some lonie respectable calling In the city elt where he went ent every over morning nut But In III reality he too was waa WIl a J professional beg gar gur und and Incredible as It Il teems seems fro tro the neighborhood of ot the Uli stock exchange an aea worked on the sympathies thies hiss of or pedestrians by posing as a paralytic with matches match to sell sellAs sellAs As A however In III point paint of ot queer queerness ness the true story leaves leave the he Imaginary nary on one far tr behind Mr r Doyle Dole mere Inere merely ly Iy I made his hla beggar realise enough to keep keell up n It 1 menage Hut But when Cecil d de Smith ceased ced at the end cud of ot each eRch day lIay to 10 be b the street mendicant he became H a veritable high roller One of or his hi suburban neighbors who teall testified tied fied against him In court Ourt the other day declared We used to think he was making lots Iota at of money on the Rinck on on exchange I 1 never saw such n a person I n for clothes t Hed have new e suits stilts I new overcoats and nothing but bat b t the heat best would suit cult him III In the evening after ho hI hind halt returned ed from he would dress up 11 to the the nines nine with a R shining silk bat and off he would go to the west Welt lie would dine at one of or the tho tee ree r in Ih I square and spend th the evening at the Umpire or the Al ll 1 hambra Though De did not find nd It ft nee Dec enary essay to distort distort his features featured as did Neville N St Clait C In Doyles Doles story It would be bt hard to Imagine n a 1 more pa pathetic object than he made as AR he drag dragged dragged ged gell himself about and a 1111 the neighboring streets Wretchedly clad and doleful of countenance he moved slowly with his head heM wagging on one Otis side aide and end dragging one leg pain painfully fully tully after him When he lie wanted to cross croas the street police policemen policemen policemen men Invariably stopped l the collie for tor him He lie got coppers copper and occasionally larger sums from nil all sorts otis of ot people particularly poor people peo ll for tor one of or the detectives testified that scrubwomen women were among Imong hla his best beet bl t patrons Ho lie Is to have made lio 40 tO a II week Dr Doyles ole beggar ore one of or course through finding out ao sa a news newspaper per paper j 11 man how much money such luh Im ins toilers Posters make This Th far hiss has failed to tell how he lie II tact fact he I pl Pleads ads not guilty In spite aT ite of ot the den definite lute nite evidence against him Jle lie hn has not nol yet et el been sentenced as It IB le believed ho he hohas hohaM has haM been be convicted comic ted previously and the IIII Scotland Yard larders era are looking Into his record r |
