The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-04

Sheriff Hardy received a letter from
a lady in Montana a few days ago
written in the Danish language. The
sheriff had a translation of it made
and it proved to be a purported revela
ton of the present hiding place of the
Rev. Francis Hermans. The writer
processes to have discovered it by oc-
cult means and gives a minute descrip-
ton of the wanderings of the much
sought for pastor. The sheriff has
hardly sufficient confidence in the mes
sage to warrant him in sending an
officer to the region where the fugitive
is said to be. The letter reads as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Sheriff:-You will pardon me for
taking the liberty of writing to you,
but l am possessed of an inherited gift,
and also a little apparatus and map,
and by means of these l have found
out where Herman the priest is, and
also the man they are searching for
from California; l do not know his
name nor the city where he is from.
According to this Herman is in Wal
Iowa county, Oregon, not far from the
river, in a house, as | have described
it in the little map 1 enclose. | found
him on a farm where he had been for
three weeks; he was herding cattle,
stayed there for six weeks, moved from
there four miles west on a farm where
he was herding horses; he was there
for four months; took some days of
rest, on the first place he had, bought
q home for $500 seven miles a little
west from there; got the daughter
along, the old man gave him four COWS,
two horses and colt along. He went
from Butte, Mont, that way around
behind the lake and down to Walla
Walla, where the railroad turns for
Lewiston; took three times new tickets,
and went to Lewiston; there he put
some of his money in the bank; he
must have had four names, for there
are two middle names in the name he
deposited the money in. He had a
trunk along; this he threw into the
river; got the ferryman 10 pack it
down there; went some miles from
there, caught horse and rode on it;
swan across the small river on it; took
three other horses; travelled some miles
until he at last got TO the before men
toned place; he arrived there in over
alls. ] will watch them until after the
election day, Nov. 3, then you can con-
slider if it will be likely for you to find
them there. [ am a wife and the
mother of nine children; have worked
hard all my time, and am always at
home, so | suppose you can fddge
L l.
long time; 1 told my husband about it,
and he said 1 don't go much on that,
and when have since mentioned it he
said: You are about to get crazy
again. My son thought you would put
me in the insane asylum and said he
thought me too smart to believe such
things; but they can say what they
like, 1 cannot keep still any longer
as there is a girl in danger. Mr., please
Il ~
without the knowledge of my husband;
[ ask an invisible, and receive answer
through the little simple apparatus,
and 1 do not know where it comes
from, but understand it. That man
from California l found in the middle
of North Dakota; I have followed him
since, and now he has stopped in Ken
nedy, Mimi, in Kittson county, in the
northwest corner of the state; he
worked a little more than three weeks,
and is in a boarding house in the
south part of the city; he is mean and
shoots at once. He rode a bicycle in
the night time and rested in the day.
He went from home and clear up in
Washington; when he went to Dakota,
he went up along the river and along
the south side of the Northern railroad
through Dakota. At Warren he went
between two rivers; fell into a trap;
had TO go back again. If Herman is
found it is all right; I know how he
has behaved himself, and then a new
invention is made, and 1 will with
pleasure render my assistance, al
though 1 have often taken quite sick
when l wanted to know anything about
Herman If you think and believe as
my folks do, or should you seek and
find none, keep this secret, or / will
get trouble for what 1 have written