The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-17
WHERE IS TIM LEARy2
Reason to Believe He Was MUIR
dered by Dan Lucey.
HE V CAME BACK
A Badly Decomposed Body Was Found
in Silver Bow Canyon Some Time
Later-It Is Now Thought to
Have Been Leary's.

Since the disappearance of Dan Lucey.
alias Dan Sullivan. who is suspected of
the murder of Patrick l.. Regain, evil
dence has been accommodating TO indorse
a strong suspicion tina the suspected
murderer is guilty Of another similar
crime. In October, 1896, Tim Leary. a
young blacksmith and miner, and a
friend of Lucey, left Butte with the lat
ter to go to Rossland. Lucey showed up
in Butte the next day and Leary has
never been heard of since. Leary was a
roommate and very close friend of Kane
Connors, and when he decided to go
to Rossland with Lucey the latter per-
suaded him TO talk no clothing along
except his working outfit. and he there
fore left his trunk and other personal
effects with Mr.. Connors, who still has
them.
Leary and Lucey started together for
the train one evening in October two
years ago. That was the last Mr.. Con-
nors saw or heard of his friend. The
next day Lucey returned to his old
haunts and Connors. expressing sur
prise, asked him why he returned and
where Leary was. Lucey replied that
he had changed his mind about going
to Rossland and that Leary had gone
alone He said he had left Leary at
the Butte brewery the night before.
Connors accepted the explanation and
thought no more about il until some
months had elapsed and he failed to
hear from Leary. The latter had prom
Used to write To him as soon as he got
to Rossland.
Connors began to make inquiries of
miners returning from Rossland, but
could learn nothing of Leary, although
several men returned from that place
who had formerly known Leary well.
During his inquiries Mr.. Connors learned
that on the night that Lucey and Leary
left Butte they were seen together at
the Montana Union depot. Leary had
about 500 in cash when he disappeared.
About a yea ago Lucey wac asked IL
he had ever heard of Leary and he re-
piled in the affirmative, and said he
was shoeing horses for a rancher in
British Columbia, but he did not say in
what part of that country. In the light
of subsequent developments and the
Regain murder. the friends of Leary feel
convinced that Lucey made away with
Leary as he did with Regain.
The strong circumstance going TO
support that suspicion is the fact that
some time after Leary's disappearance
the dead body Of an unknown man was
found in Silver Bow canyon, near the
D. place where the body of Patrick
Regain was found two weeks ago. The
body had SO badly ~decomposed that
Identification was impossible. There
was nothing in the pockets by which the
body cJu.d be identified and after an
inquest il was buried as an unknown.
The suspicion was strong that the man
had been murdered and robbed. Leary's
friends now believe that the dead man
found i'm Silver Bow canyon two years
ago was mons other han Leary and that
he was murdered and robbed by Lucey
in the same name that he made away
with Regain. Mr.. Connors said yester-
day that If he could see the clothing
found on the unknown man he could
very readily determine whether the
man was his friend or not.
Sheriff Regain yesterday printed a lot
of dodgers offering a reward for Lucey,
which will be sent all owe the country.
1t is as follows:
$3.50 Reward.
THE above amount, $3.50 by the gov
ernor of the state Of Montana, $500 by
the board of commissioners Of Silver
Bow county. Montana, and 800 by p.
II Regain. sheri" Of Silver Bow county,
Montana, will be paid for the arrest and
conviction of Dan Lucey, alias Dan
Sullivan. wanted for the murder of
Patrick l.. Regain. at the mouth of Ger
man gulch. in Silver Bow canyon, about
IL miles from Butte, on the night OF
Sept. .. 1895. Dan Lucey, alias Dan
Sullivan. Is a medium-built. ight-com-
p~lexioned. square-shouldered man of
erect bearing. about feet S or inches
in height; has blue eyes and light mus
'-sNa 7@o about 81 and weighs about
40 hounds has followed mining and
has been a sailor and soldier. and will
bo found around saloons. Is a heavy