Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
(Year missing) - Number 103
Marlin, Texas, Friday Morning, March 18, 1955

SPEEDER CAUGHT ON
CITY STREET

A young negro man named Clinton Earl Davis pleaded guilty to a charge of speeding and paid a fine of $42.65, including costs, Wednesday morning in the Justice Court of R. T. Brothers.

The alleged offender was arrested about 11 p.m. Tuesday on Commerce Street by Deputy Sheriff James McCreary.

McCreary estimated Davis' speed at more than 60 miles an hour. The officer said the driver skidded his tire wheels for nearly a block after applying his brakes.  The driver attempted to stop when he saw and recognized the officer, said McCreary.

Deputy Woodrow Powers and Jesse Scott patroled Marlin streets until after 11 Tuesday night in an effort to apprehend any possible traffic offenders.  But evidently the city's reckless drivers have taken Sheriff Brady Pamplin's words at face value, and aren't taking any chances on being arrested and paying a big fine.

The sheriff has declared that an end be put to wild and reckless driving in Marlin.

He was a guest of Barnes Adams, club president, at the luncheon meeting of the Marlin Rotary Club Wednesday.  Adams complimented Pamplin on the stand he (Pamplin) has taken against fast and reckless driving, adding that he felt sure a life or lives would be spared by teh sheriff's actions.

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