The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-06
Butte DEPARTMENT.
HE'S BEEN IN BUTTE
This Gay Swindlsr Catches Many
Girls Eyes and Smiles.
OFFICERS ARE ON HIS TRAIL
Always on the Alert for BIS
Came" Wore Fine Clothes. Beat
Board Bills, and a Cenerai
All Around NJ. q. Man.


There viii be a number OF youns
widows in Butte against whom suspr
cion will be directed when the foho"-
ing story from the San FRANCISCO
Chronicle is read:
"pomona. Dec. 1.-The slickest ano
most accomplished criminal that mas
ever operated in this locality since
knew anything about it, said CHER OF
police I,orbee today. is that man
known here as visitor ]. Humorecnt.
while some of the best detectives IN
the West have been looking for MIN
he has lived right here in Pomona, mas
come and gone apparently as he wiiied'
has been entertained in some or our
best homes, and has captured the
hearts of half dozen OF the loveiiest
young ladies in all Pomona valley.
".For one week Victor ]. Humorecnt
has been missing from this place. he
said last Sunday as he departed, after
a call at one OF the handsomest ana
proudest homes in Pomona, ina. ne
was going TO visit an old Harvard col
lege chum in Ontario for a day or two.
From that hour nothing has been seen
or heard of Humbrecht by any one
here
"sOn wednesday the police here ana
In Los Angeles were notified That Hum
brecht is wanted here for % petty OF
lenses. ranging from beating board
ing mouse keeper up to stealing Jewell
~. The police say they have no doupt
that Humbrecht travelled by night
down toward the Mexican line, and
was In Lower California before they
began the search for him.
'sHumbrecht came to Pomona valley
last April or May. He Is tan and
graceful. and has black eyes and an
exouisite mustache. He came with an
extraordinary wardrobe and had ar
abundance of money to spend during
the first few months here. He said M
was the son of a rich mother VINO mac
an income from salt wells in michigan
ana travelled constantly in Europe. HI
came here for rest and the benent o.
the climate for a year or two.
Tie claimed to have been a studen
at Harvard and in Leipsic. and tol'
many anecdotes of his friend Hobar
of San Francisco, whom he SAID n
knew at Harvard. and his numerou
pleasures in Paris with Frank J. Caroi
an also of San Francisco. In a FEY
weeks there was no young man an TN
whole valley so popular as the hano
some and stylish Mr.. Humbrecht. IL
was received in a dozen homes
which any young man would feel prou
TO be asked. Little dinners and luncht
were given in his honor, and at ever
social function in Pomona whel
young people predominated Humbrecf
erai invitation.
He was invited out by mothers hal
ing marriageable daughters. and vi
tor Humbrecht and his easy grace an
polish from travel and fine society wei
common topics of conversation In tow
A host of good Pomona people fe
pleased that so delightful a young ma
having such unusual financial pro
poets, had by chance come here to h'
temporarily and perhaps permai
emily.
"Humbrecht lived at a small boar
ing house on Fourth street. was a
ways dressed in the height OF fashio
drove the best livery team in town al
patronized the theaters here and In II
Angeles as we'll. He was perfect
dies man. and hardly an afternoon
evening passed that he did not ha'
the company OF some of the numero'
young ladies here who showed a deci
ed preference for his attentions.
''But a few weeks ago Humbrec
seemed to have less money to spen
He explained that this was because
mother. who was In Italy. had blunde
ed in sending his quarterly draft fro
the salt well property. He claimed
have had a letter from James Pheli
of San Francisco, telling him to dra
at any time on him for several hundr
dollars, but he said he would never
that until It became absolutely nect
sary.
There is no knowing how many sc
pieces Humbrecht borrowed fro
friends on that story. Still. the you
fellows purse grew smaller, and
stewed and fumed because his moth
had been careless in her remittan
He got three months board and roo
ing, and might have had more. He I
dered the best clothing to be had, a
had credit everywhere in Pomona. I
trusting merchants were very Will
to wait until drafts came from Ita
There wasn't the least suspicion Of a
rascality on handsome Humbrech
part.
But since Vt has become known u
the young man has fed, evidences
chagrin are observable on very ma
faces Nine out of 10 of the you
ladies who were so fond of Humbre'
a week ago are pronounced In the ella
that they knew the young man wa:
fraud all the time. and mothers of
young ladies all over Pomona are n
declaring that they were just on
point of ordering Humbrecht to en-
their houses no more when he dis
peared.
To-day the secret OF the young ma
night from this locality became kno'