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London’s Underworld

CHAPTER VII
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You had best apply in the proper direction for help; the parish must bury her.

Don't go on ruining yourself by selling off things.' "Mr.Ingham, relieving officer for the No.

7 ward at Hackney, said that he knew the old couple.

He remembered giving relief to both sisters about two months ago, but had had no application since.

He offered the 'House' to the living sister.
"A juror: 'Are questions put which might upset a proud respectable old couple when they ask for relief ?' "Witness: 'Of course we have to inquire into their means pretty closely.' "The coroner: 'It seems pretty clear that the old couple were too proud to ask for help.' "The jury returned a verdict that Emily Langes died from exhaustion caused by want of food." But listen again! as we stand in the land of crushed womanhood and starving childhood.


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