Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-09 | Page 3 | Escaping a Fine

ESCAPING A FINE. It Is said that a merchant of East Long street had occasion to go down town to a shoe store the other day In his machine, but he made the mistake of parking it in front of a water hydrant hyd-rant and thereby incurred tho danger of a $25 fine Now, a policeman passing pass-ing noticed the position of tho car, took out his notebook, entered the number f the machine and waited llcar tho car lor tho appearance of the owner. own-er. The owner, observing how the laud lay, called up the chief of police and advised him that his car had been stolen, and then "beat" it to his place of busluess down a back alley. When the policeman leported shortly short-ly thereafter, he was advised of tho theft and immediately reported that he had fouud It. Tho chief complimented compli-mented the officer on his quick recovery recov-ery of tho car and the owner complimented compli-mented tho chief. But tho owner had to laugh, and, inasmuch as a good joke is always too good to koep, tho story has become common property. Columbus Co-lumbus Dispatch,