The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-10-27
BUTTE SEARCHING
FOR MISSING MAN
G. t. PUCKETT, FORMER TREAS
URER SILVER BOW COUNTY,
HAS DISAPPEARED
Chicago Detective Agency Asked to
Endeavor to Trace Auto Party,
Which Left East for Butte in July;
Relatives Fear That Pickett is
Dead.

With hundreds of friends of c.. T
Pickett, former county treasurer O.
Silver Bow county. investigating any
possible clue which might lead to his
whereabouts, also that of his wife
two children and sister-in-law, Nettie
Breckenridge, it is thought that some
trace of the missing family will de.
velop within a short time. Agencies
in Chicago have been t~elegraphed tc
trace Pickett, who was in that city
July 10, and who vas said to have
started to Butte overland on that
date. A list of automobile accidents
and the ame of persons killed and
injured is being checked to ascertain
if the members of Puckett's family
were killed, as vas suggested in a
letter to County Treasurer Howard
Mcintyre from Mr.. Puckett's father,
Elihu Pickett of Coalmont, Ind.
May Have Perished
Butte friends have advanced the
idea that it may be possible that the
Pickett family was killed in a wreck,
and that the automobile license as
might tend to identify any occupants
of the car, were destroyed. Anyone
having information of Mr.. Pickett or
any of his family are requested to
convey the same to Howard Mcintyre,
who will Immediately communicate
with the father of the former treas
urer.
Nothing is being left undone to To-
cate the family and all possible clues
are being run down with vigilance.
Pickett left Butte last March, after
having served two years as county
treasurer, and from letters received
by friends a few weeks later, he was
to undergo al operation at the Mayo
Brothers hospital in Rochester,
MINI. The last heard from him To-
cally was from Hot Springs, Ark,
and in a letter to George e. Brennan,
his former chief deputy, he stated
that he would return to Butte late in
July Or early in August.
Father Is Anxious
E1ihu Pickett, father of G. t.
Pickett, stated in a letter to Howard
Mcintyre that his son left Coalmont,
Ind, July Is for Butte and that a
letter had been received from Chicago
dated July 10, stating that he and
his family were on their way to Mon
tana. Since then nothing has been
heard from the family. The elder
Pickett stated that he had heard a
report that the entire family was
killed in a wreck and he asked if any
information had been received in
Butte to that effect.
From the number of inquiries re-
ceived at the treasurer's office, it is
evident that everything possible will
be done to trace the family by
Prominent in Butte
The Pickett family was we'll
known and prominent in Butte.
Through his office as county treas
Mr.. Pickett came in contact
With thousands of residents of Silver
Bow county and his business acquain-
.anceship was further enlarged
through operation of private business
rentures.
That the strange disappearance of
he entire family and their possible
-iolent fate has aroused Butte friends
S a mild expression of the situation
which has developed there following
publication of the fathers startling
conveying the information that
he Butte man and his relatives had
apparently dropped out of sight as
'bruptly as though the earth had
TO reeeiye them. That the ah-|,