The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-18
Butte Department.
FUN FOR THE ALIAS
A Man With Many Names and More
Nerve and Gall.
HIS WORK IS VERY SMOOTH
He Visited Butte. Helena, Seattle
and Other Cities, and His Ac-
quaintances All Say He's
Lu Lu at His Trade
HIS WORK IS VERY SMOOTH

Dr. Emil Richter. alias Prof. Heine-
singer, alias half a dozen other
names, who cut such prominent fig
ure in Helena a few days ago and then
left that city between night and fog.
figured even more prominently in Butte
few weeks ago and proved himself
one of the smoothest men in his line
that ever struck the big mining camp.
The 'doctor," or professor" arrived
in Butte on New Years day, coming
from Salt Lake on a scalper's ticket. 1t
appears that his ticket was taken up
by a conductor on the road, and the
| first thing the doctor" did on his ar
rival in town was to prove himself as
strictly all right in his business by GO
| ing to the Union Pacific with COM
| plant against the conductor and con-
vincing the agent that the ticket had
been purchased from him by the doc
| tor himself some weeks ago and the
| agent, it is alleged, reimbursed him for
the portion of the ticket taken up by
| the conductor.
/ why that man could make any man
| believe anything" said one of the
friends he found during his short stay
| in Butte.
DIR. Richter registered at the McDer-
mott as Heinesinger. and represented
himself as a mining engineer and in
| ventor of the new cyanide process for
treating ores. and said he came to
| Butte in response to a personal tele-
| gram from the manager of the Ana
| conda mines, who was anxious to Put
| one of the cyanide mills in at the Ana
| conda for the purpose of treating the
| tailings from the smelters. He said he
| had met the manager in New York
and had made a proposition to him
which was not accepted. The great in
| ventor was very independent and
dropped negotiations until the Ana
conda company was forced to come to
him and accept his terms, and that
was why he was in Butte, Heinesinger
claimed that he could save, by his new
cyanide process, 9S per cent. of the
metal in tailings and said he had mills
Occur d'Alene country and six others in
Canada and other sections of the
country. He built his mills, he SAID
and took five per cent. of the product
as payment for the use of his inven-
ton, and the result was that he had
money to throw at the birds. The sec
ond day after his arrival in Butte he
evolved the great scheme of forming a
company in this city to buy up all the
tailings in the camp and build one CT
his mills here. There would be mil
lions in II for a dozen men. One of the
|
plan was Adolph Pincus, the we'll
known ticket broker. Mr.. Pincus had
not talked with Heinesinger very long
before he learned that the man was a
"lundsman" of his, and that both came
from Breslau, Germany. Mr.. Pincus,
however, was a little bit suspicious OF
the man, and began to question him
about the scenes and haunts and peo-
| pie of their childhood home, but Heine-
singer was dead onto everything.
and was more familiar with the birth
place of Mr.. Pincus than the latter was
and his suspicious were disarmed.
There are so many fakirs going
around" said Heinesinger, that
don't blame people for doubling me-"
| Heinesinger is a small, understood
man, with black chin whiskers and a
pair of piercing black eyes, and he
talks German, French and English flu
emily.
THAT man is as smooth as cream
that costs 81 quart" said Mr.. Pin
Gus as he thought, with admiration, OF
Heinesinger's fine qualities.
The man told Mr.. Pincus that as soor
as he had closed his deal with the An
aconda company he would start in tc
organize his Butte company, and sug-
gested that it would be advisable tc
talk the matter up with some of the
prominent mining men in town, so he
was taken around and introduced to q
number of them. His talk was sc
smooth and his scheme so plausible
that he had the least possible difficulty
in convincing them that he was al
that he represented himself to be. AL
he wanted was a subscription of SIS, 900
and in order to show his good faith hi
said he would put $1,000 of his owl
| money into the enterprise and remain
! in Butte for two months to get the mil
into working order. The required
amount was promised him the first day
and a prominent banker and mining
man, IL is claimed, promised to taxi
$4,000 worth of the stock. All prelim
mary arrangements for the great en-
| terprise were completed and theI
| Heinesinger received a telegram from
Spokane requiring his presence Their
Immediately and Mr.. Pincus very kind
! ly presented him with a railroad tickle
| to Helena He said he would be bacl
in two weeks to complete his plans ant
organize his Butte company, AM
everybody believed that he would. II
was so earnest and honest about tn
J. whole business He paid his hotel bill
r and, so far as known, borrowed none
from no one. Those who had tn
pleasure of his society declare that h
is the best informed man, the mos
J. plausible schemer, and the best talke
: they had ever met. He had a larg
number of letters of recommendatio
and proofs of his learning and exten
sive acquaintance. They can not un
derstand his object in doing a sure
thing business on such a small an
harmless scale.
He could have done this town 70
$4,000 just as easy as falling of
log" said /. NJ. Jacobs. the tickle
broker. who had formed a rather clos
II | mountaineering with Heinesinger.
- Say. he was the smoothest guy