Beat The Slot Machine

If you drop a nickel with i strinfr atached, keeping the end of the in lour hand, have you really dropped the coin? An Iowa judge has decided in the afflrmative. An inyenious youth in thac State tied a thread to a nickel, dropped rhe nickel in a slot machine, got what ie wantod, then, withdrawing the nickel by the thrcad, repeated the operation until he had made a clean sweep of the receptacle's contents. He was arrested on a charge of theft, but the udge who tried him held that he had committed neither burg-lary, larceny nor robbery, nor even obtained property under false pretenses. He had merely done what the inscription on the machine told him to do - dropped a nickel n the slot - and had kept on doing so. Sfothing was said about leaving the coin where it was dropped. This decisión will probably abate a