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Show CENT CLEARS UP CONSCIENCE Kansas Woman Who Defrauded a Weighing Machine Makes Restitution Restitu-tion to Company. Because she "cheated" the weighing machine in the depot out of a penny more than a year ago, the conscience of an Abilene, Kan., woman has been bothering her ever since, according to a lttr received by the company's agent here. In her letter the woman slatPd that more than a year ago she and her daughter were in the depot waiting for a train. The daughter placed a penny In the weighing machine, and after it had registered her weight and before she stepped from the machine, the mother stepped on also and was weighed free. This worried her so much that she inclosed a stamp In the letter and asked Mr. Mills to place a penny in the weighing machine, thus easing her conscience. New York Sun. |