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Show WOMAN ADMITS SHE DEFRAUDED RAILROAD Says She Failed to Pay Fare fox Children and Wants to Ease Conscience. Conscience stricken, a widow of Bebas-topol, Bebas-topol, CaJ., has begged permission to pay fare which she failed to pay for her two children, 6 and 8 years of a?e, when she traveled from Shoshone. Jdaho, to Ashland, Ash-land, Ore., four years oo. The appeal is made in a letter received vesterday bv D. S. Spencer, assistant seneraJ passenger passen-ger agent of the Oregon Short Line rail- ' road. In the letter the woman explains that at the time the children were small for their age and were not questioned by the conductor. From Shoshone to Portland, according to her confession, she paid no fare for either. From Portland on to Ashland Ash-land she paid half-fare for the older child. She explained that the failure to declare the ages of the children and pay their fare for the entire trip had troubled her conscience con-science for four years and the memory of it has become unbearable. Therefore, Vne tifiks thfH Mr. Spencer write her informa-i tiou as to the amount of fare that should have been iaid, whereupon she promises to send a check that her conscience may he eased of its burden. |