To solicit alms or charitable aid. The act of a cripple in passing along the 6idewalk and silently holding out his hand and receiving money from passers by is “begging for alms,” within the meaning of a statute which uses that phrase. In re Haller, 3 Abb. N. C. (N. Y.) 65.
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