The daily sentinel., 1903-10-17
MESA COUNTY man
"BUNCoED" OUT OF $4,000.

as old as the hills. The~-story is
equal to that of dime novel
The man who lost the money is
Charles E. Gibler. of DeBeque. a
we'll known ranchman OF that section
He lost it in betting ON ',sure
thing" in foot race between two
men. and the old accident of the fa-
moment is responsible for his loss.
Gibler is about SO years of age and
his loss is considerable one
The story was brought to the city
this morning by Orson Adams. Jr. !.
cashier of the Mesa County hank.
who went from here on Friday. Oc-
tober 9th. in company with Gibler in
an attempt to get back from the gam
blers the money Gibler had lost
Mr.. Adams brings back with him two
papers. issues of the Pocatello Ad-
vance which gives the matter in de-
tail.
1t appears that along about two
weeks ago two men appeared at De-
Beque by the names of Ed. Mccoy
and \. Lounger. They got the old
man Gibler interested i'll the matter
and he started off with them to Poca-
tello. But after giving the story as
given by the Pocatello paper. the
wanderings of Gibler must be detail
ed. He came back here and endeav-
ored to induce Mr.. Adams to loan
Ia t5 900 fal1inn hin, ahont ba
former race and that he knew his man
could win in a second try. Mr..
Adams at once discovered that Mr..
Gibler had been badly buncoed. He
made him tell him the whole story
and he jumped right ON the train to
Gibler's money back by bringing
suit. and charging conspiracy. Glib
Ter " as fain to believe at first that he
had been buncoed.- but Mr. Adams
knew that the game was as old as the
hills. and he wanted to save money
for his friend Gibler. The first
money that Gibler h,d taken to him.
he received at Salt Lake City.
through letter of credit Mr. Adams
had given to their correspondent in
Salt Lake.
The money was Mr.. Gibler's own
and had been obtained partly by
mortgaging his farm,
The following is taken from the
Pocatello Advance:
1.-TWO cases now on file in the pro-
bate court brought by County Attor-
ney ]. J. Guheen at the instance of
Charles Gibler, of Grand Junction.
and ]. B. Perkins of Denver. promise.
in connection with the story told by
the men to furnish the greatest sensa
tion ever known in this CITY.
The story upon which the COM
plants are based and which the Off
GERS believe they have evidence to
prove. the criminals intent of Ryan,
Mccoy and Lounger. as we'll as Ja-
cobs, is as follows as we'll as can be
remem bered and without going into
details as told by the Grand Junction
man. Gibler:
About the first of October Ryan
went to Gibler. who is farmer at
Grand Junction and who appears to
be less than ordinarily Intelligent
and aware of the wiles of the world.
and represented to him that foot
race had been arranged for at Poca-
tello in which friend of Ryans was
to race. This friend was the best
foot racer in the world. but the peo-
pie of Pocatello didn't know it.
Ryan represented. so Gibler says.
that owing to his social and financial
and business standing here, he could
not bet in the race, but he would
put up the money if Gibler would
come here and do the betting and
they would divide profits. His op-
ponents We're also men of means in
Pocatello and would not have any
thing to do with anyone who was not
a man of means and had money or
bank paper showing large credit.
Gibler mortgaged his farm for 81. 900
and loaded himself with drafts and
came on to make his big stake. He
says he was met at the train here by
Ryan. who took him to the Bannock
National bank. where his bank paper
was exchanged for paper that could