Kansas City (KS) Star, August 20, 1919, p. 6. TRIED AND FINED BY PHONE Columbus, Ind., Man Lost No Time from Employment [From the Indianapolis News] Columbus, Indiana-Dewey Mails of Columbus pleaded guilty the other day and was fined $1 and costs for operating a motorcycle without a license in Seymour. The trial was conducted by telephone. Mails was in Seymour a few days ago and failed to have a license plate on his machine. Mayor Swope of that city ordered a warrant for his arrest which was given to an officer here to serve. Mails was taken to police headquarters here where an officer from Seymour arrived to take him to that city. As Mails was employed here and the loss of the time necessary to go to Seymour for trial would work a hardship on him, the Seymour policeman called Mayor Swope over the telephone and, after the circumstances were explained, Mails was permitted to plead guilty over the telephone. His fine was assessed, he paid it to the Seymour policeman, and was released.