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A Detective Outwitted

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
October
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The tbllowing story ia aluiost too good to be true : Acertain railway couipany suspected that they were being defrauded by passengere traveling witliout tickets, so a detective was sent to travel oa the trains. One day he heard a passenger remarle that t was very easy to to IVum J .iyton to Moorfield without a ticket. The detective watchcd lus man closely, and wis mrpróed to find liitu hand ;i proper ticket to the conductor. EoterDL into oonveraation with the pas. (!,, deteoMrc said : ¦ I 1 1 1 u ! il 1 i k e (okiiowyuurplan fortraveling withoul a ticket, as [ am a frequent r, and I don'l aiiud giving you $1 lor llio tip." "Done!" anl the man, and, alter he pocketed the bil!, he remarked quictly, " When I want to travel without a ticket I walk."

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Courier
Old News