Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-07
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Arrivals
Departures.
THE BLOODY LAIGNEAU MTs-
Terry MILL fURTakH
MYATlRlkD.

Pursuant to what we stated in yes
terday's NEWS Chief Downey and
Laigneau went out yesterday afternoon
on horseback, In order to trace up'if
possible the track or route followed by
the brigands when they took him away,
and find the two places where they
camped, more especially as Laigneau
said he had $50 in his pocket, which
was lost on the trail or at the first
camping ground. They returned last
evening without having made any dis
coveries. The arrangement was then
made TO start out very early this morn
Ing. About4 o'clock officer Ben Lackey
went to where Lalgneau roomed. and
found the man absent. He either left
or sent q note to the following effect:
~ AM going to Reno. Kelly. at Low
enstein's will tell You all about it,"
Lackey at once went to Kelly's resi-
dence, showed him the note, and on
being told by Kelly that there must be
something wrong in the matter, rs he
knew nothing of this new move OF
Laigneau's, Lackey and Chief Downey
started out at once after the man. They
met hun on the Geiger Grade. coming
back to the city. On being asked the
reason Of such strange conduct, lie re-
piled that he got afraid certain people
wanted to kill him, or put him out Of
the way from interested motives, so he
thought he would be safer to leave, but
feeling that he was doing wrong he had
changed his mind and was coming back.
Chief Downey thought the best and
safest place for him was the Station
House. Dr. Greene and Heath exam
ined him this forenoon as to his sanity.
but we have not learned their decision,
Laigneau has never been considered
anyways inclined to be Insane, accord
ing to what his most intimate friends
aud those best acquainted with him
say, neither would a person ordinarily
%conYerslng with him notice anything
out Of the way In that respect, yet the
whole Of this decidedly mysterious az
fair. from beginning to end, has a
strong flavor of insanity connected
with II. With the exception Of the
blood, broken bottles. and other marks
of n struggle in his little bedroom.
there has not yet been the first thing
In the way Of proof found to corrobo-
rate his story, which We published yes
terday. We were among the first who
visited his room Monday morning when
he was missed, and, after taking n
square look at the situation, made in
Quirlcs rs to his sanity, whether he was
a drinking man. If he was sober when
last seen, whether he had an enemy. or
some one with whom lie might have
got into q difficulty hcre-or If there
might not possibly have been q wo-
man in the else. In a subsequent
item on the subject we even advanced
the idea that he might have done some
thing wrong in that room, and instead
81 his being murdered and his body
carried away. he might have done that
same thing himself and now had good
cause for being missing, yet alive and
fully able TO explain ali. If insane,
he Is certainly an object Of pity ; but If
not, he ought at least to be able to md
that last camping ground. or give some
little proof in ccrroboration OF his
story. His condition when first found
was simply what any man Is liable TO
amer wandering exposed for two or
three days and nights in the mountains
without food or shelter, to say nothing
about i'll treatment from kidnapping
brigands. We are fully prepared to
believe Laigneau more or less insane.