Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1919 — Ten to One Against. [ARTICLE]
Ten to One Against.
“Sorry,” said the village constable, “but I’ll have to arrest ye—ye’ve been drivin’ along at the rate of 50 miles an hour.” “You are wrong, my friend," said the driver. “I say I wasn’t, and here’s $lO that says I wasn’t.” * “All right,” returned the constable, pocketing the money. “With ten to one against me I ain’t goin’ to subject the county to th’ expense of a trial.”
