The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
is A COMPLETE MYSTERY
Rene Curin, Mining Engineer,
Has Disappeared.
NO TRACE OF HIM is FOUND
Nothing to Substantiate the Foul Play
Theory-An Anxious Search Is
Being Made Throughout
the Northwest.

Rene Curin, mining engineer we'll
known in Butte and throughout the
Northwest, has suddenly and mysteri-
ously disappeared, and for about six
weeks his family and friends have been
searching for some trace of him with
out avail. He was last heard of at Hell
ena, December 10, when he wrote his
wife that he would return to Butte in
few days. He disappeared from Hell
ena that day and his wife has not heard
from his since.
The disappearance is a complete mys-
terry. The foul play theory has been
advanced, but there is little to substan-
tiate it. although the missing man mad
a considerable sum of money on him
when last seen. The theory that he
has met some accident in his mining
Investigations is received with much ia
Vor by his relatives.
An anxious search has been made of
Montana and California for the miss
ing man without even finding a trace
of him. The search is now to be ex-
tended into Washington and the other
mining districts of the Northwest in
hope of better success.
The wife of the missing man has con-
Quoted the search, and is at present in
Spokane, where she arrived two weeks
ago.
MY husband and 7 left Los Angeles
and went to Dillon, Mont. in Novem-
ber," said Mrs. Curin to a Spokane
Chronicle reporter. we stayed there
for about two weeks and then went to
Butte, reaching the latter city Deem
Der 5. There Mr.. Curin told me that
he was going to Helena to look after
some placer ground, and decided to
leave me at Butte until his return, as
he only iHtended to be gone few days.
He left Butte December -, and
have not seen him since. December 13
he wrote from Helena. stating that he
would return to Butte in a few lays,
but since then I have received no fur
Their word from him.
1T seems almost certain that if my
husband were alive I would have heard
from him before this, as he never be-
fore let "a hours go by without sending
me some kind of word. He had a con-
siderable sum of money when he went
to Helena, and may have met foul play,
but l fear that he has been caught in
some accident. He often took the most
foolish risks around mines and may
have been caught in a cave-in or have
been injured in some deserted shaft or
tunnel, where his body would not be
found for weeks or months. He was
in the employ Of L. C. Bonney of Chi
cago at the time of disappearance, but
Mr. Bonney has also failed to receive
word from him since the date of my
last letter.
We have made a wide search for Mr..
Curin. I heard that he had gone to
California and wrote letters to different
parts of the state, but failed to receive
favorable reply. I have written over
hundred letters of inquiry. I left
Montana and came to Spokane about
two weeks ago to meet my brother, Alex
Howard, who was going to Paris from
Rossland, and have been here ever
since.
my husband was 81 years of age
and feet 312 inches in height. He had
blue eyes and was quite bald. He was
very quiet and man who never drank
to excess. At the time of his disap-
pearance he was wearing a dark brown
suit of clothes
1T is one of the most mysterious
disappearance cases r ever heard
about" said Eugene w. Taylor, who is
Mrs. Curin's attorney. He complete
~ disappeared without the slightest APP
parent cause We have detectives work
ing in Montana, but they can find no
trace of the missing man after Decem-
Der 10, when he disappeared from Hell
ena.''