The San Francisco call., 1901-12-28
AGAIN CONFINED
IN SAN|TAR|UM
Lady Yarde-Buller in
Custody at Livermore
Asylum.
Christmas Escapade Ending
at Haywards Cause Of
Her Trouble.

| Lady Leilah Kirkham Blair Yarde-
Butler, the brilliant but unfortunate
woman whose sanity, conduct and prop
erty have been the cause of so much liti-
cation in this country and in Europe, is
again confined in DR.. RobertsOn'S Sani-
tarium at Livernnore This time her in
generation is the result of an escapade
which began in San Francisco Christmas
and which ended in Haywards, where,
according to the story told to her former
landlady by her guardian, Lady Yarde-
Butler was taken in custody by officers
and detained until the guardian, George
I. Wright, caused her removal TO the
liVermOre Sanltarlum.
Since Lady Yarde-Buller's appearance
in Judge Ellsworth's court in Oakland
some weeks ago, during the hearing OF
Baron" BarOteau's suit for $1,000 for ser
vices her DOdyguard, at which ap-
pearance she created scene IN court by
her hySterical conduct, she has been ltV-
ing quietly at the clearinghouse at 712
Van Ness avenue, where she has been
sheltered for the past fifteen months.
She has had her liberty, but has not
had money enough in her possession to
permit of the ndulgences that have
wrecked her fortunes and health.
Just prior to Christmas Lady Yarde-
money by her guardian, in order that she
might crafty her desire to send gifts to
a few old friends and former servants
AS a result she spent Christmas eve down
town and when Christmas night came she
was again anxious to get beyond the -four
walls Of her narrow existence in the Van
Ness-aVenue lOdgins-hOuse. She left
about o'clock, saying she was going to
Oakland to visit her old servant, Mrs.
Annie Mulhearn, who lives in a little
home given her by Lady Yarde-Buller s
father. She wore her famous sealskin
coat, against the protest of her landlady
who feared it might be the means of her
Identification and cause a scandal during
her absence. She carried a small parcel,
q gift for Mrs Mulhearn
Thursday passed without Lady Yarde-
Buffers having returned. Meanwhile ru-
NOR reached San Francisco that she was
again confined in the Livermore SAM
tar1um. Inquiry at the Van Ness-avenue
lodging-hOuse last night confirmed the
rumor. The landlady admitted that Lady
Yarde-Buller had not returned from her
Christmas night trip, and further that her
trunk was packed in her room upstairs
waiting to be shipped to-day to the LiV-
ermOre Sanitarium
The landlady said that George T.
Wright, the guardian of Mrs. Blair, as
Lady Yarde-Buller was always known q t
her house, and Baron Baroteau called
yesterday and told her that Lady Yarde-
Butler had been taken into custody at
Haywards Wright said that under the
circumstances it was better, for the pro-
lection of his ward and the good name
of the family, that she be confined again
for short time at Livermore.
Baron" BarOteau said, according to the
landlady, that he saw Lady Yarde-Buller
go on the Oakland boat Christmas night
and that he crossed the bay on the same
boat, but was in the company of another
woman and did not speak to her BarO-
teau also said that he helped persuade
her to go along quietly when she was
taken in custody at Haywards, inducing
ply friends of his. When they reached
the sanitarium and Lady Yarde-Buller di-
Vined their purpose she attempted to es-
cape and had to be taken in by force.