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<i>Better late than never. That's how John Gedge felt about paying a $15 speeding ticket he received from a guard in a city park nearly 52 years ago.
Fairmount Park officials received a letter and a five-pound note this week from Gedge, now 84 and living in a nursing home in East Sussex, England. Five pounds was worth about $14 in 1954, about $9 today.
"Englishmen pay their debts," Gedge told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "I'm very sorry I left it all that time. But my conscience is clear...<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601368.html">Entire Article</a>
Fairmount Park officials received a letter and a five-pound note this week from Gedge, now 84 and living in a nursing home in East Sussex, England. Five pounds was worth about $14 in 1954, about $9 today.
"Englishmen pay their debts," Gedge told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "I'm very sorry I left it all that time. But my conscience is clear...<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601368.html">Entire Article</a>
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