River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-04-01

GWWW~N of sanctimonious cOun-
Is &GXNN tenance, and the posses
~z@zzzsszzD sor of long silKen, black
mustache with dropping ends of which
he was excessively proud. BY profess
sion he was a school teacher, and his
father kept country store ard was re-
puted to be well-to-do. When the young
or HERES was not engaged in impart-
ing knowledge in juveniles, CT singing
German songs, he was fond Of fitting
about the country in search OF amor,
GUS adventures, being what is gen.
orally known as a ladies man." He
was by no means favorite with the
male contingent, for his effeminate,
lackadaisical manners were not calcu-
lated to endear him to the average
man.
Indeed he was so much of fop in
appearance that one would never i'm.
agine him to be marked for the central
figure in stirring event where a
whole town turned out to rescue him,
while his captor, with drawn guns,
backed against a wall with Heres at
his feet, stood prepared to sell his
life as dearly as possible. His father
did not sympathize with his sons man.
ner of enjoying himself, and the pa
ternal purse-ctrings were not loosened
to any great extent in order to pro-
vide the bIack-haired Lothario with
funds Yet the pleasures to which
Mr. HERES, Jr., was devoted called for
a constant supply of the root of all
evil, and an annoying tightness in the
money market at a certain stage of his
love affairs was the stumbling block
over which his feet were destined to
trip.
On fine summers day in 1887
young Mr.. HERES sauntered into the
office Of John Cavers, manager of the
Imperial Bank of Gait, Ontario, and
presented two notes to be discounted.
One was signed by Peter Leweller, a
neighbor of the HERES family, and the
other by HERES father. They totalled
$500, and Mr. Cavers discounted them.
HERES vanished with the money and
shortly afterwards old man HERES and
Peter LeWeller pronounced their sig
natures to be forgeries. No trace could
be found of the fascinating J. K.
HERES, who had presumably sought
fresh fields and pastures new as soon
as he had secured the necessary cash.
The officials of the Imperial bank i'm
mediately took steps to hunt down
the fugitive, and Detective John Will
son Murray was sent for anG the case
placed in his hands
After an interview with Manager
Cavers, Murray proceeded to Berlin,
the county seat of Waterloo, and pre-
pared extradition papers, for from in
quiries he had made he felt certain
that HERES had sought asylum in the
United States. He also held counsel
with John Klippert, the chief constable
of Waterloo, shrewd old German who
was considered one of the best police
officers in the Dominion Klippert
knew the missing man we'll by sight
and was able to give the detective a
good description of him.
"Shon," said Klippert impressively,
you will know him two ways; one
by his Chef black hair and one by his
ding-dong mustaches. He has some of
the Hottest mustaches you efer see.
They flow down like Niagara Falls,
and they too are Chef black"
But it's altogether likely that he
has shaved them off, remarked Muir
ray.
Den you will know them by the
place they used to be" said Klippert.
And remember-they are Chef black"
Murray set the telegraph wires work
Ing all over the country for trace
of his man. At length he learned that
the fugitive had a cousin who was
lawyer at White Cloud, in Minnesota,
and that HERES had been in CORE
spondence with this man, whose ad-
dress was found in an old coat belong
ing to HERES. A visit to White Cloud
was plainly in order for Murray and
on September % he started for st.
Paul On arrival in the latter city he
went to police headquarters, inter
viewed Commissioner Spencer and
prepared the necessary warrant for
HERES arrest, provided that he was
to be found. He also called upon an
old acquaintance, United States Mar
shall Campbell of White Cloud,
prominent man in that part of the
country Campbell gave the Canadian
officer letter to Congressman c. f.
Mcdonald of White Cloud, whom the
marshal said would be able to render
his friend valuable assistance in To-
eating the fugitive Armed with this
document Murray went to White
Cloud and looked up the cousin of
HERES.
He learned from neighbors that the
cousin had visitor sometime before,
q dapper fellow with a remarkably
fine mustache. The stranger had tar
ried only a few days and then driven
away Murray called on Congressman
Mcdonald, and was given letters of in
PRODUCTION to prominent people within
a radius of 200 miles. Part of the sur
rounding country was but thinly set
tied at that time, and the detective
began a careful, systematic search
throughout the region for the gentle
man with the luxuriant mustache.
For two days and nights Murray
made flying trips from point to point
snatching an occasional hours rest as
best he might For there were clues
in plenty, tales of men with black
mustaches and ebony colored boards
in different nartS 0f the country. hut