The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-08
no TRACE OF BURlHGH
His Wife IL Almost Distracted
With Fear.
CONVINCED HE is DEAD
me sherifrs Oncers Are Confident He
VIII Yet Turn Up All Risht-Much
Additional Evidence of His
Peculiar Actions.

No trace has yet beer found of Henri
]. Burleigh. the missing attorney. and
his wife is almost distracted with anx-
iety and fear. h stated last e
ing that she feels convinced her hus-
band is dead. The city has been, IL Is
believed, thoroughly searched by the
sherin's officers and friends of Mr.. Bur-
leigh. and IL he were alive in Butte
they would have found him. The sher-
ms o~ficers. however. do not believe
that the man is dead. but are of the
opinion hat ne is at some OF the
springs out of Butte or that he has
gone to a small town or mining camp
on business and will turn up all right.
Some OF his most intimate friends be-
lieve hat he a wandered away while
insane and has destroyed himself or
died from exposure.
The report that he had gone to Vir-
ginia City was proven groundless yes
terday afternoon. when the sheriff re-
ceived Q telegram from 1. j. Haines,
sheriff OF Madison county. stating that
Burleigh was not there. Under Sheriff
Murphy also telephoned to Helena and
TO Warm Springs and received replies
from both places that the missing at
torney had not been seen there. Mrs.
Burleigh also ~telegraphed to Helena
and other places n received similar
replies. Absolutely nothing has been
learned OF him n no trace of him has
been found after he was seen by sew
eral persons on the streets last Satur-
day morning.
A great deal Of additional evidence
was accumulated yesterday about his
peculiar actions during the past month
and many OF those with whom he came
in contact are convinced that his mind
was badly deranged. He seemed to
worry a great deal about w. G.. CALI
CHER who became insane through wor-
ry over his mining litigation with the
First National bank OF Dillon. Mr.. Bur-
leigh was attorney for the bank.
Poor Gallagher was driven to the
asylum" Burleigh frequently said.
and just to think, ] helped to drive
him there"
rms facts of his disappearance have
been 30 thoroughly circulated through
out the state by the newspapers that IL
would seem likely that IL he is alive
somewhere he would have been seen by
some n and the fact reported. IL he
should be wandering ABBOTT I'm his insane
condition a description of him might
assist In his identification. He was a
man about SO years % age and not over
8 feet 3 inches tall, and weighing prob
ably $50 pounds. When last seen he
was hav and wore a cloth
cap of the golf or bicycle patterns, a
era suit of clothes N a brown over
coat. though IL is possible that he left
without the latter. as IL liz believed he
was forced to pawn IL, as he did his
watch and articles of jewelry. His
eyes are gray and his hair above the
ears considerably streaked with gray
and very thin on top of the head. He
also had the initials III. j. II. in India
ink on one of his arms. Mrs. Burleigh
thought he might have killed himself
by means of poison. n yesterday at
her request a sheriff's officer made a
round of all the drug stores and made
inquiries. but none of the druggists re-
membered having seen Burleigh or Of
having sold poison to anyone answering
his description '