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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2728, 10 July 1925, Page 5

A (?ood story comes from Clarksburg, West Virginia (incidentally the home of John W. Davis, the present Democratic presidential nominee). A gentleman of that town, being in a hurry to reach Fairmont, 25 miles away, was guilty of doing the trip over slippery roads, on a wet night, in 30 minutes. At one stage of the .iourney he noticed a state patrol behind him, and, as he put it, “I suppose he was chasing me, as there was no one else I could see who needed to be chased for speeding. But I “stepped on it.’’ Subsequently, the parol arrived in Fairmont and collected the data he had been unable to catch on the road; and it cost the gentleman in a hurry 56.60 dol. But for once the victim did not mind. He happened to be the local dealer for the car in which he had been speeding— a Chrysler—and the authorities were so “sold” on the proposition by his inadvertent demonstration that they bought a Chrysler, and mounted the patron on that to put salt on the fails of the speeders. Local agents; Justice and Edmunds, Garage, Palmerston North.