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Show IS IT WRONG TO RIDE ON ANOTHER'S TRANSFER? YOUNG DIVINE SAYS NO CHICAGO. Nov. 14. A new point In transfer ethics was raised yesterday, when Robert Morris, a divinity student . In Chicago University, was. arraigned before Justice Callahan charged with offering on si Cottage Grove avenue car a transfer tvhi-h he had found In the street; Morris wee arrested by one of the detectives de-tectives of Ihe City llaiitvay company, v.-ho faw him attempt to v.rc the transfer. trans-fer. He ;idmtttM he had found the transfer In the street and that he knew it was illegal to use It, but he said he 'ou!d not see the Justice Of the law. Purchased Maximum Bide. He contended that every nickel spent by. the patrons of the Street car company com-pany purchared the maximum ride on the company's ;in?s, and that If the IfTinal purchaser did not care to tese all of that Hie, It could be no moral of-fenre of-fenre for nnother person to us? what some one else had wilfully thrown away. Jurtlce Cal'ahan held that to ride on a tran'fer that hid been found In the rtreet was no !ers tha rObbrry, lnaa-muth lnaa-muth ar the company was deprived of a nicVc! that otherwise would have ' beh tpent. llob the Storekeepers. -Then 'vo-.t tniht r.s well sny that I rob the rtorekecpor when 1 piv( away d u ovenoat which is only half worn out, because t save the recipient of the coat the nefei'.y of buying a new one." rejoined Morris. The rtude-nt ?nal! agreed to incet the J;:?tkc again and tlirtvh the question ques-tion thoroughly. "He livd trie going son-.?," wrs Justice Jus-tice Callahan's o:nmenl after Morris h:-.d left th loon. |