Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-11 | Page 4 | Runaway Ben Rides Six Days in Freight Car

RUNAWAY IIEX RIDES SIX DAYS IX FREIGHT CAR (By International News Service.) CLINTON, Mass. "Outlaw" railroad rail-road strikes, freight embargoes, stalled stall-ed trains and sealed box cars held no terrors for 'a handsome black Minorca Min-orca hen, that hopped aboard an open freight car at Nevlrvllle, In northern New York. Six days biddy was sealed up in the car, bumping along over tho railroad rail-road lies. Hayseed In the car provided pro-vided some food, but It was very dry in the car drier than elsowhere in the U. S. A. Business was not forgotten on the trip, for when the car was opened hero the black hen stood cackling over a freshly laid egg. The visitor is being held in a garage gar-age hore awaiting word form someone some-one in Nevlrvllle who Is minus a wandering wan-dering biddy.