Show identity made very plain you will have to be identified be fore I 1 can pay you the money on this chech said the paying teller of the tank aint the chech good asked the man on the other side of the window oh the checks all right but I 1 don t know ou you must be iden tidied that is all that you got to get someone that knows you and knows me to come here and tell me you re the man this check Is made out to the man took the check and with a puzzled expression on his face left the bank half an hour later the un identified man returned the man what give me the check he said can t come but he sent this and says for you to give me the money he held up a large sheet of paper on it was a pencil tracing of the out line of a man s hand the chart showed a first finger cut off below the knuckle and the second finger miss I 1 ing all except a mere stub the paying teller eyed the sketch curiously below it was written this Is the best I 1 can do I 1 cant come 01 er and the man cant write so I 1 cannot his signature the man has an anchor tattooed on his right forearm and powder marks on the lobe ot his left ear he smells of whisky and can lick any man in your bank with one hand tied behind him the note was signed by the writer ot the check the teller was able to rec cognize the signature hold up our hand he said the man laid his hand over the tracing on the paper and it fitted per factly mutilations and all show me the anchor said the teller the blue tinted emblem of hope ap reared the powder marks were in evidence and the air was burdened eiith a heavy odor of whisky heres your money said the tel ler you needa t try to lick anybody you re sufficiently identified chi cago news |