Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-01-12
SHET- BLACK HERRES OF TIL
D1NG-DONG MUsTACHEEs.

AA4NN DONo IA O04 aOA00O.
A sing.song voice. black haired,
ctimonious scalaWaR named j. K.
HERES. lived near Elmira, in the
county OF Waterloo. His father kept q
country store and he was reputed to
be fairly we'll of. When young Heres
was not teaching q little school or
singing German songs he was GALL.
wanting about the country. He had
profuse rush of hair to the upper lip,
and he developed q particular fond
ness for twirling tie dropping ends
ct his moustaches. He seemed go in
sipid shat one never would have ina.
gined him to be the child of destiny
in q stirring event where q whole
town turned out to rescue him, while
his captur, with drawn guns, backed
and prepared to sell his life az dearly
possible.
''Herres frequently went to Gait in
ray. I'm the summer of 1887 he
walked into the Office of John Cavers,
manager of the Imperial Bank of
9alt, and presented two notes to be
discounted. One was signed by Peter
Leweller, neighbor of the Herlt q
family, and the other by Heres faith
er. They totalled 5000, and Mr.. Cav
ers discounted them. Heres vanished
with the money. Old man Heres and
Peter Leweller pronounced their eig-
natures fcrgeries. The case came to
me. and on Sept. 20 I went to Gsit
saw Manager Cavers. and thence went
to Berlin, the county seat Of Waterloo.
i tEhsEa ~--prspaxe1 sxtradi ditinu-spape.a d.
and obtained from Chief Constable
John Klippert, of Waterloo, a descrip-
tion Of HERES. Klippert was one Of
the best constables in Canada, q
shrewd old German.
'Shon, he said to me, you will
know MIN two ways. one by his shet-
black hair, and one by his ding dong
mustachees. He has some of the lofii-
est mustachees you efer see. They
flow down like Niagara Falls, only
they, too, are shet-black -
But suppose be has shaved them
Off, said. ''You will know tenn by
the place where they once used to
be, said Klippert. And remember
shet. blf ck -
| I telegrarhed all over the country
for trace Of Heres, and found one.
I learned that he had a cousin who
was lawyer ut st. Cloud In Mime
sofa, aud Shet-Black Herr 8, as ]
called him ever after hearing Kip
pert's descl iption. had been in CORE
spondence with his cousin, whose ad-
dress was found in old coat belonging
to Herres I decided to visit St..
Cloud. On Sept. % I started for st..
Paul. On arrival there called at
Police Headquarters and on United
States Commissioner Spencer, and
prepared the necessary warrant for
Heres. If should find him. alsj
called on my friend United States
Marshal Campbell who gave me- a
letter to Congressman G. r. MoDon-
aid, of st. Cloud, q prominent man in
that part of the country. I went to
St. CLOUD and looked up the cousin of
Heres. learned from neighbors
that the cousin had visited there
some time before. dapper young tel.
low with q remarkable fine NOUS
tache. He had tarried only = few
days, ana then bad driven awaS. ae
had not shaved 1t off was my glad
thought. I called on Congressman
Mcdonald, and he gave me letters TO
prom inent people within q radius Of Q
couple ef hunderd miles. Part Of the
country round about was thinly SET
tied at that time. I set ont to find the
man with the fine mouttache.
1T was like looking for a needle in q
haystack. I travelled all around the
country. saw more smooth -shaven
men and more men with boards than
imagined were in that part of the
country, but not one man with
'dlng-doDg mustachees old I sec. I
returned to st. Cloud without clue or
trace of my man. learned then of q
settlement of Germans at Little Falls,
and I remembered what l had heard
of Heres fondness for German
songs; and one man in St. Cloud
thought Heres cousin had relative
in this settlement. Little Falls was
several hundred miles from st. Paul,
and arrived there on Oct. 4. It was
! q little place of about one thousand
people, and I think I saw everybody
| in tho town. found no trace Of
i Heres, and Was about to give np TIE
chase there, when the school. teaching
side Of the HERES came again to my
mind. The idea struck me to try the
schools. / did so-no HERES. But
there were country schools. I called
on q st0rekeeper who WAS one of thu
school trustees. Yes, some teacher
had been employed for country
schools. The clerk Of tho school boari
lived near b, he said and I shoult
3ioee him. went 20 the clark. He I'm
[mediately wanted 70 know the name