Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1915 — CENT CLEARS UP CONSCIENCE [ARTICLE]

CENT CLEARS UP CONSCIENCE

Kansas Woman Who Defrauded a Weighing Machine Makes Restitution to Company. i Because she “cheated” the weighing in the depot oat of a penny more a year ago, the conscience of an Abilene, Kan., woman has been a letter received by the company’s

In her letter the woman stated that more than a year ago she and her daughter were In the depot waiting for a train. The daughter placed a penny in the weighing machine, and after it had registered her weight and before she stepped from the machine, the mother stepped on also and was weighed free. This worried her so much that she inclosed a stamp in the letter and asked Mr. Mills to place a penny in the weighing machine, thus easing her conscience.—New York Sur