A FREE PASSENGER.

Shannon News, 23 March 1926, Page 3

A FREE PASSENGER.

SLEIGHT-OF-HAND IN A TRAMCAR. When a tramway conductor makes an error the inspector finds hiim out, but when an inspector makes an error, it is somebody's secret. While travelling from Vivian Street to Willis Street yesterday afternoon an inspector boarded a ti-ainear, and made Ms way through it, ret-urning to the rear of the cur satisfied that all the passengers had their lares. But what the inspector missed, an onlooker saw. Two young men friends were sitting on the outside of the car, one being in front of the other. The inspector examined the ticket' the young man at the back wa s holding and returned it as in order, and while he examined tickets on the other side, the man sitting at the back slipped the ticket that inspector had looked at"into,his companion's hand. The inspector looked at it, and returned it .without comment, and failed U> see that two passengers were travelling on the one ticket.