Foreign News: Stocks for Speeders

Applying electric currents to sensitive organs is a notorious method by which Bucharest gendarmes teach criminals to "sing" (confess). Last week the hardened police of Rumania's capital received new and congenial orders concerning motorists caught speeding.

Convicted owner-drivers will be placed by the police in public stocks for 30 minutes. Convicted chauffeurs will have their hands trussed behind them, will wear a sandwichman's placard setting forth their infamy, will be marched around the principal streets of Bucharest by constables for one hour. In addition, both drivers and chauffeurs will be liable...

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