Emery County Progress | 1902-08-09 | Page 2 | Forty Waifs in Jail

FORTY WAIFS IN JAIL chicago probation officers in many baby under direction of the probation officers the pol ce of chicago ande a tour of the principal down town retail streets wednesday night and gathered in as many as they could of the scores of little children who are sent into the streets nightly to beg and peddle forty children boys and girls all between 4 and 7 years of age were gathered in each waif finding wag oa w AS preceded a half block by two policemen who picked up the little ones and put them into the wagons many others the of the children are held at the barnson street police annex pending an invests gation in the case of each ch id by the visitation and aid society the raids will be kept up until the streets arel cleared of beggars