Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-01
sANcTMoNous oouNTENANcE, -ctErBL AckMusTANcHE AND A WISE slEUTH

ty OF waterloo. n
% was a dapper young man
yVWN of sanctimonious coun-
N tenance, and the posses
- sor of a 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 a country store ard was re
puted to be well-to-do. When the young
er HERES was not engaged in impart'
ing knowledge in juveniles, CT singing
German songs, he was fond of fitting
ahout the country in search of amor
Gus adventures, being what is gen
orally known as a ladies man." He
vas by no means a f~avorite with the
male contingent, for his effeminate,
1ackadaisical were not calcu-
man.
Indeed he was so much of a flop in
appearance that one would never i'm
agine him to be marked for the central
figure in a stirring event where a
whole town turned out to rescue him,
while his captor, with drawn guns
backed against a wall with HERES al
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-strings were not l~oosened
to any great extent in order to pro-
vide the black-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 a 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 LeweIler, 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. X.
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 viii.
son Murray was sent for and 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, a shrewd old German who
was considered one of the best police
officers in the Dominion. Klippert
knew the missing man well 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 loftiest 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 a trace
of his man. At length he learned thai
the fugitive had a cousin who was g
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 ant
on September 23 he started for st
Paul. On arrival in the latter city hi
went W pOllSC ohuquu tSl5, lhICl
viewed Commissioner Spencer anc
prepared the necessary warrant TO
Heres arrest, provided that he wa
to be found. He also called upon al
old acquaintance, United States Maj
shall Campbell of White Cloud,
prominent man in that part of tn,
country. Campbell gave the Canadian
officer a letter to Congressman G. +
Mcdonald of White Cloud, whom tn
marshal said would be able to rende
his friend valuable assistance in lie
eating the fugitive. Armed with thi
document Murray went to Whit
Cloud and looked up the cousin o
Heres.
He learned from neighbors that tn
cousin had a visitor sometime before
a dapper fellow with a remarkabl
fine mustache. The stranger had tai
ried only a few days and then drive
away. Murray called on C~ongressma
Mcdonald, and vas given letters of il
PRODUCTION to prominent people With
a radius of 200 miles. Part Of the SUI
rounding country was but thinly Sc
tied at that time, and the detectiv
began a careful, systematic scare
throughout the region for the gentl'
man with the luxuriant mustache.
For two days and nights Murra
made flying trips from point to poin
scratching an occasional hours rest a
best he might. For there were clue
in plenty, tales of men with blac
mustaches and ebony colored beard
in different parts Of the country; br
none Of these turned out to be tn
much desired HERES. Yet the silke
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