"I know of what I speak.

There is hardly a viler wretch in all our city than this man, who draws hundreds--I might say, without exaggeration, thousands--of dollars from weak and tender-hearted people every year to be spent as I have said; and he is not the only one.

Out of this district go hundreds of thieves and beggars every day, spreading themselves over the city and gathering in their harvests from our people.

I see them at the street corners, coming out of yards and alley-gates, skulking near unguarded premises and studying shop-windows.

They are all impostors or thieves.