GAVE HIM SIGN AND GRIP.
Also $12 Which Arley Merteller Will
Never See Again.
Arley Merteller, of Rollins, Wyo., is looser just $12 by his visit to Kansas City Thursday.
"I met a stranger at the Union depot," Merteller told the police later. "He apporached me, gave a Masonic sign and handed me the correct grip. Being a brother, I didn't hesitate to go with him to the New England National bank. When he needed $12 to get some things I gave it to him readily. He told me to wait there, that he would be back in a minute. After waiting several hundred minutes I realized that I had been buncoed. We all learn by experience. Moral: 'Trust no man further than you can trouw a brick and then don't throw it around a corner.' "
