Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-14
LUCEY'S

Z It Is said that Lucey was responsible
for the disappearance Of other men. but
it is not positively known that he ever
killed anyone "a Patrick L. Regisl.
In October of 1896, it is said, Timothy
.Leary and Lucey left Butte under much
sthe same circumstances as did Regan
and Lucey. their destination being Brit
ish Columbia. On the following day
Lucey returned alone. and when asked
where Leary was, he replied that he
had proceeded towards his destination.
No attention was paid to the matter at
shat time, but when Leary was reported
missing a few months later, the cir
of Lucey and Leary having
left Butte together was recalled. The
reported disappearance of Leary was
followed by the finding of a badly de-
composed body in Silver Bow canyon.
The identity of that body was never
fully established, but the supposition
is that 1t was that of Leary. Lucey de-
MED that he ever had anything to do
with the murder of Leary. his latest
been made last Wednesday,. He said
that at the time Leary left Butte he
was working in the Anaconda mine:
that Leary and himself We're distantly
related, his own mothers name having
been Leary; that before leaving Leary
had told him he owed various pers6
money which he could not pay, and he
would have to go somewhere else to
escape the odium Of attachment. Wheth-
err Lucey told the truth or a falsehood
in regard to Leary is a matter Of doubt.
but true or untrue. Leary has never,
by letter. voice or otherwise. given his
Butte relatives and friends to understand
that he was not murdered and hat the
decomposed body found in the canyon
four years ago was not his own.
While Lucey was in Jail here in May.
of 1898. on a charge Of obtaining goods
under false pretenses, he was confronted
with other charges of wrongdoing, some
of which he denied, while others he adj
mitted. One of these charges was an
attempt to kill a man with a stone in
Madison county. n another was a gun
play on Henry Filing, the we'll known
Madison county banker. He admitted
both, it is said, but justified the gun
enforcing he terms. of a verbal lease
on some mining ground after he had
struck a dirt. He denied having been
arrested in Arizona on a charge Of MUIR
der. There is no. doubt that at times
Lucey had an uncomfortable desire to
do something desperate. While occupy
ing the lower corridor of the main Jail
along with other prisoners, he sometimes
amused himself bullyragging his COM
panions. This he kept up until Edgar
Marshall, who killed Mrs. Georgia
Creech. gave him a thrashing. During
tIe lidCas LuSey attempted u cut Mar
shal with a knife.
Men here who had known Lucey fer
years were greatly afraid of him. With
in the last few days some of his ac-
quaintances have ventured the asser-
ton that Lucey killed at least twenty
men during his lifetime. They not only
hold him responsible for the murder of
Leary and Regain, but for the mysteri-
Gus disappearance of other men in this
~section-men whose bodies have been
found in abandoned shafts and out-of-
lthe-way places at various times prior
Ito the murder of Regain. There are. it
is said, two or three men in Butte who
know to an absolute certainty that Lu-
cey murdered both Leary and Regain.