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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday August 20, 1902
Chicago, Illinois – Police Raid and Capture Little Beggar Children
From the Duluth Labor World of August 16, 1902:
From The Chicago Daily Tribune of July 30, 1902:
LOCK UP CHILD BEGGARS.
———-TWO SCORE YOUNG MENDICANTS
OR PEDDLERS CAPTURED.
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Raid Made by Police Through Downtown Streets
and Many Little Ones Are Caught
Telling Tales of Poverty and Suffering
-Flight and Capture of the Popp Family
-Newspaper Alley Visited and
a Number of Boys Are Arrested.
———-In a raid through the downtown streets last night forty children, all beggars or peddlers, were arrested and taken to the Harrison street police annex and to the Juvenile home, 625 West Adams street.
Three patriot wagons followed the police men and picked up the children arrested. Many were caught as they were telling pitiful tales of cruel parents and sick mothers. Several others were too quick for the detectives and dodged into alleyways and other avenues of escape. The raids will be continued until the streets are cleared of the baby beggars.