Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — PROFIT IN A FINE [ARTICLE]

PROFIT IN A FINE

The existing peculiar conditions in the international money market can produce very strange and paradoxical phenomena- Here is a case in which the exchange actually transformed a punishment into a reward. In 1916 a man from across the Baden frontier was arrested in Switzerland for smuggling. He was released on bail of 6,000 francs, which then cost him TJSOQ marks- For some reason the case

dragged on and was decided only quite recently. The accused was sentenced to a fine of 3,000 francs cost. He received as the balance of his ball. 1,700 francs, which he changed for 24,000 marks. Consequently, his little adventure brought him .In a net profit of 16,500 marks. As one of the humors of the exchange this deserves to be coupled with tiie case of a Swiss brewery. which is said to have found it

economical to label its beer bottles with Austrian kroner notes.—London Morning Post.