The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-16
Was NEAR TWIN BRIDGES
News Received of the Missins
Henri j. Burleigh.
HE HAD BEEN DRINKING
He Ate Breakfast at the House o. Mrs
Edward Mueller on the Morning
OF April l2-On His Way
to Virginia City.

What appears to be the first authentic
information concerning Henri J. Bur-
leigh. the missing lawyer. was con-
tanned in a letter received by Mayor
Harrington yesterday from j. II. STARK
of Twin Bridges. The letter bears date
Of April Ia. last Thursday, and reads
as ollows:
Being a member of the A. o. L. w.
and hat order wishing to know the
whereabouts of Lawyer III. j. Burleigh.
l thought best to notify you regarding
some information l have just received
of that gentleman. Mrs. Edward Muel-
Ter. living two miles below Rochester,
Madison county, says that BurleigL
to her house on the morning of
the 18th, ate breakfast. and said he
was going to Virginia city. He wore a
gray suit of clothes, had no overcoat,
and had not been shaved for severa
days. He looked and acted as though
he had been drinking heavily. He also
exhibited a miners candlestick. which
he said he had found in the debris of
the Hale house fire. Mrs. Mueller had
frequently met him at Dillon. her hus-
band having had him employed in a
law suit. He spoke the German Ian
guage. as he had done before when she
met him in Dillon. Ii was quite notice
able that he avoided meeting Mr.. Muel-
Ter, with whom he was very well ac-
quainted. He did not think that Mrs.
Mueller recognized him. He was walk
ing. and If he passed through the
Bridges nc one has seen him."
Mrs. Stark's letter does not, however.
agree with the Dillon dispatch in the
yesterday morning. which re-
cites some evidence that Burleigh was
seen in Portland 10 days or more ago.
There was also another story in Butte
to the effect that Burleigh had left the
city for Portland last Sunday morning
accompanied by a woman but thai,
story is absurd as ii is most improbable
that he could have remained i'm Butte
until that time and then left openly;
with a woman without attracting the
attention OF anyone. when everybody
was looking for him. and he IA espe-
cially well known to all railroad men.
Some people have a growing suspicion
that Burleigh had for some time prior
20 his disappearance feigned insanity
and planned a scheme to leave the
mysteriously and create the
impression that he had committed sui
eide so that his wife could get his 81. 900
of A. o. y. w. insurance. This scheme,
II is suggested, is borne out by the will
he made and the farewell letter he
wrote to his wife. Burleigh would have
had to depend. for the success of such
a scheme. on the proposition thai the
"A. O. u. w. would take his declaration
and his disappearance as proof that he
made away with himself. which the
lodge would not at all have been likely
to do. ON the other hand some. of Mr..
Burleigh's most intimate friends and
closest associates in Butte do not be-
that his insanity was feigned, but
that during the last two weeks that he
was seen in Butte he showed unmistak-
able signs of real insanity. The evil
dence that has accumulated during the
past week regarding Burleigh also
shows that Burleigh. instead of being
the moral man that he was generally
supposed to have been, was a regular
Jekyll and Hyde. and had a lot of
friends among the women of the town. .