Show OGUS SQPOUlfTS GRAFT HOW OFFENDING WHEELMEN OFNIG WREMN ABE HELD UP A Man With a Tin Star and a Cub Has Been Baking In the Coin From Cyclists There are numberless grafts for grafters but none that excel either in cunning or effect one that the police discovered yesterday There is a man on East South Temple street who carries car-ries a club and wears a tin star and spends his evenings behind a luxuriant growth of bushes alongside the restricted re-stricted bicycle district And when a poor homegoing wheelman steals silently si-lently along the pavement out jumps the man with the club and commands him to halt He halts Then the man says Ill have to arrest you for violating vio-lating the ordinance and the citizen looks shamefacedly down at his handlebars handle-bars The man then says I you get In court it might cost you 5 and I believe be-lieve you didnt intend to do wrong Ive a good notion to let you go but Ill have to put up bail for you I guess it wont be over 2 or 3 The pedaling citizen thinks of his wife and children and in another moment mo-ment dives deep Into his trousers and gives the officer the required amount first having gained the assurance that his name will not in the w1 appear papers pa-pers This has been going on for some time the last victim having reported It to Chief Hilton An effort will be made to find the bogus officer |