Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — The Woman From Boaton. [ARTICLE]

The Woman From Boaton.

It has remained for a Boston woman to get the best of a Chicago hackman, according to the Chicago papers. She lived in a house where the boarders were accustomed to hire an omnibus to take them to the Fair grounds. She negotiated with the owner of the caboose for an evening trip, beat “cabby" down 112 on the price and collected full fare from each of the party, pocketing the extra 112. She worked the scheme several times with success, finally being discovered.