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No one should know the truth of
the old saying better than those
who deal in law enforcement, but
even they at times succumb to the
lure of the gilded, crooked pathway
that leads to perdition and, more
currently to Jail. From time i'm
porial it has been the duty and
Nkor of newspapers to tear aside
the cloak of official and semi-offi-
cial hypocrisy, and to reveal all
the sordid scheming behind the
scenes. Submerging personal friend
ship and fraternal association un
der high sense of duty, RR sees
no ether course than to tell what
he knows.
II the community wishes to take
up an investigation, RR will go far
ther. Until then. no names will be
mentioned, in respect to families
and friends of those implicated.
We can say only this:
That the story involves the sher-
jff, his chief criminal deputy, the
deputy who .acts as chief coroner
in between law enforcing, and the
reporter who covers police news for
the Post-Press. They were all in
county automobile concurrent
with the acts about to be related.
which makes the offense worse.
They were. moreover, dealing with
an innocent girl who did not know
who they were, and did not notice
I've official license on the automo-
They were returning from a
leeitlmate bit of law enforcing
when thirst overpowered them at
root beer stand near the sheriff's
office. Stopping. each ordered
five cent drink. The newspaper re-
porter wanted to paw The officers.
in the guisn of being gentlemen.
refused TO allow her to do so. They
flipred CONS. and she lost-so she
paid after all or tried to. She hand
ed over p dollar bill to the girl.
THAT BILL the chief criminal
deputy sheriff remarked casually.
as counterfeit. OF course, you can
take it if YOU wish-but don't say
I didn't tell you"
The girl gave the reporter change,
eighty cents for the dollar bill
then glanced at the sober faces in
the automobile. She decided it
might be serious. She held the bill
before the chief criminal deputy.
Tell me-" she said, "is it really
any good?"
I've already told you it is not"
he replied, seriously. No one chang
ed expression. The girl looked at
the reporter, growing determina-
ton apparent in her eyes. The
iRlation became tense.
here was no explosion, for Just
zen the sheriff reached into his
pocket. He produced a five dollar
bill
Here" he said, this is good
bill. Take what we owe you out
Of it, and give her back her bill"
The girl examined the FLYER. It
looked good In fact. it was good.
She handed the sheriff the ques-
toned cne-dollar bill and he passed
il back to the reporter. Then the
girl made change for the FLYER
1our dollars and 30 cents worth of
change. and went her way salts
fled The official car drove off
In it was newspaper reporter
with her original one dollar bill
besides 30 cents in change-and
sheriff with S4.80 in change from
a five dollar bill
In other words, the original $6
which had been offered was in
creased to $3.50.
Conscience twhose nobody knows
laid the whole thing bare when
three of the evildoers decided to
pin it onto the fourth, repaid the
go cents to the girl at the root
beer stand and considered buying
her $3.50 box of candy as an in
ducement to testify against the
fourth member of the gang.