| Show SHREWD CONDUCTOR HE IS CLEVER IN DETECTING BOGUS RAILROAD TICKETS seems to have it in for ticket brokers and succeeds in giving them the worst of it frequently passenger conductor john shields ol 01 the oregon short line is a thorn in the side of the festive ticket scalper ilia run is between salt lake and poca tello mr shields is a dark eyed pleasant bright looking man choso whoso hair is just commencing to show the frost of time but he 13 still young and active he has been railroading about twenty years during which period he has bad much experience aith that class of transportation por tation pasteboards paste boards known as bc alpers tickets he can smell one a away and once ho gets on its trail it is all olt the ticket and the holder shields ia well known in ogden ite has just run after a return from butte went to attend the trial of the aluc brought by martin elward against the oregon short line to recover judgment for for having sidetracked side tracked him at brigham utah april 14 1000 while en route from denver to butac alie result of the trial having been given in the last friday while waiting for the jury to agree upon a verdict yesterday mr shields related flomo t his experienced with and sonic of the tricks of alio llio scalping business people arc not using this class of tickets so much now as they formerly did fraid he for two years up to a short time ago hardly a local ticket between salt lake and butte was resented on the train running north out of salt lake they were all coupon scalp ers tickets that biad been bought 1 eastern cities and sold to sc alpers in ogden and salt lake I 1 used to lift about 20 a day but last month I 1 got only CO A few days ago continued the conductor 1 I lifted five bogus tickets held by men bound from butac to denver and made the men pay their fare they were all in one car tickets keiu bought in butte and while they were bacr difficult to detect I 1 caught them just the same and turned them in at headquarters itow do I 1 detect alio plugged punch mark why I 1 just take the edge of the ticket between my thumb and finger bend alio ticket slightly and then draw it from one end to the other at medium speed it the punch marks have been plugged the edges of tin plugs and the part of the ticket to which they have stuck by mucilage lago or prepared glue wilt not yield gracefully to the curve of alie ticket and tha sensitive thumb and finger will strike the rough edges of the marks |
