The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1896, Page 2

i . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1896. and dishearténed.” "He says he carried no guns in sight: News from the vicinity of Smith’s is being anxiously awaited at every minute. . i Lt WAS CALMLY. PLANNED. Madness Did Not Cause Dunham’s Fearful Crime. SAN JOSE, CiL., May 28.—The theory of madness or sudden impulse must be dismissed from consideration of the bloody business at Campbells on Tuesday night. The developments of to-day, linked with the facts previously known, leave no doubt that this unique horror had been worked out in its terrible detail through days of dark thinking. Dunham had determined upon his deed on Monday morning ard his plans for'the awful execution were no mors carefully laid than were those for his escape. The lack of motive disappears under the steady course of investigation, and 'it becomes clear that this terrible deed was thatof a moody, bitter, mean, self-centered nature that could find in some slight from his wife or members of her family reason suf- fieient to him for blotting them all out of existence. ‘With proof of this premeditation cer- tain features of the crime that were lightly passed over in the first inventory as being impossible of meanimng what they seemed rise to first importance and lift this crime far out of the ordinary in mere blood ear- nivals. Thatnote that was found on the table in Mrs. Dunham’s room is the chief of these. At first it looked like a mere cheap trick of the murderer—a forgery to give the appearance of suicide to her death, when, perhaps, it was in his mind only to kill his wife. With two loaded revolvers, a rifle and an ax, made ready to the murderer's hkand, that it was his purpose to do what he did, at leastso far as the members of the McGlincy family are concerned, cannot be in doubt. And when it islearned, as it was to-day at the inquest, that the most bitter hatred existed between Dunham and the whole McGlincy family, taken in connection with the silent and morose character of the man, the motive is furnished. - The story, then, that is told by that little note younger'than himself, is engaged to marry the daughter of Colonel R. P. McGlincy, a prominent citizen, rancher, orchardist and vpolitician. Dunham seeks and se- J.cures employment from McGliney and, ‘employing his opportunity, lays siege to the heart of his brother’s fiancee and wins her. Then for the first time be takes on the role of a gentleman, At 30 years of age he enters Santa Clara College to take the full four years’ clas- sical course with the purpose of afterward studying law. He is reported as a model student, polite, punctnal and hard work- ing in a class where the pupils were half his age. ‘Rev. Father McKenna says of him: *‘He was in a degree irreproachable. He was always very polite, and would bow to those with whom he was acquainted, but he very seldom showed a disposition to talk to any one, and he seemed to be a very hard person to become very well ac- quainted with. He was, I might say, a silent man. He rarely, if ever, smiled, and bad what might be called a far-away ex- pression.” 2 Just so he was to all others with whom he had and proposed to have no close relationship. At home the hard, ugly side of his character had long been revealed to his young wife. He was more than mean to her. Her jewelry was stolen while they him as being the thief. He taunted her in those ways that ure most ageravating— charged her parents with ths commission of disgraceful crimes and bronght about family. When she was sick Le entirely neglected her. Did she want any comfort such as he might secure her he told her not to bother him, but to get what she wanted from her parents; and they had been married but little more than a year. The love letters written to her by his brother were still among her treasures. Four days after bis baby was born he lifted the little body up in his bands and leaning over his wife’s sick bed he said: Do you know what I intend to do With this? Iam goingto Texas pretty soon to open a saloon ahd gambling-house; I am going to take this boy with me, and I am going to teach him to be a Catholic, too.” I <ail) \\\*\T\L | Iy Sy | N iy i I/ A / Ul l\\ / GEORGE SHAIBLE. lived in Sacramento and .she suspected | an open warfare with all others of her | .| wife to shock her. COLONEL R. P. McGLINCY. [From a photograph by Professor Haussler of San Jose.] sonably be expected to be housed in San Jose Jail before nightfall. ONE VICTIM BURIED. Impressive Funeral Services Over Miss Schessler’s Remains. SAN JOSE, CaL., May 28.—The funeral of Miss Minnie Schessler, one of the vic- tims of Dunham, took place this after- noon. Service was held in the First Chnistian Church, and Rev. B. B. Burton, pastor, made a most affecting address. “‘Rock of Ages” was then sung, and aftera few texts of Scripture had been read the coffin was taken back to the hearse. The coffin was covered with wreaths of lilies and other white flowers. At the Oak Hill Cemetery the Daughters of Rebekah held the final services over the grave. The chief mourners were the parents, Dr. and Mrs. Schessler, Walter Schessler and Mrs. Ada Reen, a sister of the de- ceased, besides many other relatives and {riends were present at the funeral, which was largely attended. The honorary pall-bearers were Misses Mabel Campbell, Maud Berwick, Carrie Phau, Maud punker, May Holland and Messrs. Harland, Berwick, Eley, Wallace, Craycroff, Smith. ST DUNHAM’S BAD RECORD. Brutality and Theft Were Among His Crimes. SACRAMENTO, Car., May 28.—James B. Dunham, the San Jose murderer, was at one time a resident of this city, and is well known to the police force, as at one time they were called upon to solve a mysterious robbery case in which his wife was the sufferer, she losing all her jewelry, and when the police finished their investi- gation it is said that there was proof con- clusive that James B. Dunham was the robber, and it is stated that eventually he ter. and George Schaible saw him ride away over the moonlit road toward San Jose and felt that he was safe. | Charley Sterrett met him where the road rises out of Dry Creek, and the un- sated monster stopped him, saying: | “Have you seen George?” The baby boy, the only survivor of this | Black, a neighbor of the desolated place. The place is visited by great numbers of people, who come and go in constant pro- cession over the county roads from all di- rections. JIn the meentime the guessing goes on as to the prospects of the murderer getting | safely away. | The bodies of the victims, all save Mijn- | nie Schessler, still lie in the house, hav- ing been embalmed. The funeral will take piace to-morrow afternoon, and it will, no | doubt, call out a great portion of the popu- lation of the Campbell district. The inquest was resumed in the house of the dead this morning. The most im- | portant witness was Mrs. H. M. Parker, | who was the nurse at the house at the time the Dunham baby was born. She was there for thirteen days and saw enough of Dunham’s ill-treatment of his She said that Mrs. | Dunham told her of her I0ss of her jewelry and how she had every reason to believe that her husband stole it. One day Dun- ham was taunting his wife about her | father, old man Wells, telling her he knew him to be a sheepthief. This so angered the wife that she then and there charged him with having stolen her watch. He only laughed at her. The sick wife was in great need of a piece of mosquito mnetting, and she (the nurse) begged him to get it for her. He made no reply, but the next dey came home with- out1t. Bhe again reminded him, and he again paid no attention whatever. When the wife herself asked Dunham to do anything for her he replied by telling her to have her father wait upon her, as he would not. Dunham, said the witness, seemed to take some interest in the baby—even showed some affection for it—and would lie on the bed and watch it for long periods. Several times when the nurse | offered it to him Dunham would take it in his hands and hold it. It was upon one of these occasions that Dunham that was found on the stand near the mur- dered wife’s bed is nothing less than tre- mendous. It is written on the reverse side of a large yellow business card of a wine com- pany. Itis in the wife’s handwriting, as testified to by those who knew it. It is written in lead pencil, and then is blurred as though a hand had been drawn across itin an attempt to erase it. ‘When James Dunham, the silent, dark, stern man, entered his wife's room with bis big ax he told his wife that he had come to kill her. He had often said he would do so and she knew from the terrible purpose that sounded in his low voice and looked out of his calm eyes that he meant what he said. He may have placed the gag in her moutn that was found there after death. So he may have restrained her from crying out even atthat moment by the mere exercise of that power which he is known to have had over her will. He told her that if she had any prepara- tions to make for death to make them and be quick. She rose up in her bed ana wrote that line upon the card. He thought she might have offered a prayer instead of writing a note that could never be deliv- ered and that may explain why a hand was drawn across, blurring it. Then he tightened his fingers about her throat and shook the feeble body so savagely that the neck was broken. The body fell back quite still, but he must make certain, He thrust some cloths down the throat so that it would be impos- sible that the breath of life should re- enter it. The tragedy of Othello had been re- enacted. The frightful night’s work that he bad laid to his hand had been entered upon. The light had been putout. But in the modern edition this was a mere be- ginning. Five others were to follow this spirit into the unknown country in quick succession. There would be a whole fam- ily of them together. 4 The lights that have been turned upon the character of James Dunham since that Tuesday night gave the backzround to this picture that is necessary to it to make it understood. As at first presented it seemed the ghastly work of a maniac. Its ruthless and unnecessary slaughter could not be fitted to any other reasoning. Now, however, we have a man with a past—a man who had been married twice, who bad deserted two wives scarcely before the hon- eymoon in each case was over, 8 man who had turned his band at many unvrofitless trades, who has been a cowboy in Texas and is as ex; with the revolver as he is an experienced and hardy horseman. He had traveled the roads from Oregon to Ban Diego and knows them perfectly. He had béen seen in these immediate parts where lived his brother and sister but lit- tle. His mother and father having died he returns and secures his share of & mod- erate fortune. . His brother Charles, several;years Sheriff J. H. Lyndon of Santa Clara County, Who Leads the Pursuit of Dunham the Sextuple Murderer. She and all the family were strong ad- herents of the A. P. A., and Dunham him- self was not a Catholic, but he knew how to torture. This was the model rtudent and polite gentleman of the Santa Clara Coilege. He was even then and had long been contemplating the wiping from the earth all of the McGlincy family. On Monday Dunham drew out what coin he had in the San Jose bank, some- thing over $1000. On Tuesday evening he hid his bycycle in the bushes near the Dry Creek bed, some few hundred yards from the house. He loaded two revolvers, a 33 and a 45- caliber—he always carried one. He loaded a rifle and these with the ax he took to the house and that night wallowed in the blood of six people. One that he had counted upon got away and that fact left him unsatisfied. The orchard and grounds about the house are marked with the trail of his horse as he rode back and forth along the fences and sround the house and over in the direction of the neighbors’ houses in his search for George Schaible, the frightened hired man, who was hiding under the hay in the loft ot the barn. ‘With the place strewn with dead he could scarcely bring himself to leave the scene, because there was one survivor that he felt sure was concealed there. He wanted them all. At last he turned his horse into the Los Gatos read, looked back leaned over his wife and shocked her into hysterics by saying: “Do you know what I intend to do with this youngster? I intend to take him with me to Texas pretty soon, where 1 shall open a whisky-shop and gambling den. I mean to feach him, too, in the Catholic religion.” ‘With agony in her face and in her voice she turned to the nurse, saying: “What do you think of a man who will say such a thing to his wife at such a time?” and Dunham smiled as- though much pleased at his success. George Schaible, the man who escaped, was recalled, and testified that Dunham had two bicycles and one was broken, and he had spent some time Monday morning repairing it. He did not see Dunham on the farm on Monday nor on Tuesday, before 8 o’clock in the evening. He came homeat that time. He did not notice anything in his appearance or conduct that was notable at that time. F. E. Lovelady testified to having seen and heard two men going by his house toward McGlincy’s Tuesday evening. One of them he knew was Dunham. He knew Dunham very well ana always estimated him as a very cool and calm man. Robert Hamilton was walking in com- vany with a young lady along the road in the Dry Oreek bed when Dunham | once more upon the scene of the slaugh- | | sweep of death, is being cared for by Mrs. | MRS. R. P. e R passed him. walked with his bead down as though thinking deeply. with Dunham and thought it strange that he should pass within ten feet of him without speaking, and remarked about it to his companion. The testimony of the doctors as to the number and direction of the bullets and the blows upon the bodies of the dead completed the inquest. The verdict was rendered at once, nam- ing Dunham as the murderer of the six peopie. . A Caru reporter put the question direct to Charles Dunham, the brother of the murderer, as to whether or not it was true that he had been engaged to marry Hattie Wells before she married his brother. For an answer the young man said: “I do not care to deny or affirm any- thing in connection with this terrible af- fair. There have been a great many things said. I do not wish to reply to them. This tragedy has been done. It comes directly home tome. Iam anxious that my brother shall be apprehended, as I am certain he is insane.” Charles Dunham is employed in the store of Miller & Co. as bookkeeper and is highly thought of. He is evidently very much wrought up over this affair. It is stated that Mrs. McGlincy has left a will. 8ne has two sisters living in this city. It appears that the property, which is valued at about $75,000, belonged to her and was left to her by her former husband. The question arises whether after all the son of Dunham, for whose benefit the great crime was committed, would come in for all of the property, and even so, if after the debts are paid he would get much 1f he did. z Under instructions from the District Attorney’s office, Constable Ed Haley this morning swore to a complaint in Justice Gass’ court charging James C. Dunham with murder. ¢ —_————— GAVE UP THE SEARCH. | Heavy Fog Makes It impossible to Follow a Trail. SAN JOSE, Carn, May 29 (2 A, M.)—A telephonic communication from Smith’s Hotel reports that the posse has returned and given over the search for to-night. Sheriff Lyndon is very confident that he will effect a capture by 9 o'clock this morning, as every trail wiil be guarded and patrolled and the people at Mount Hamiiton are already on the alert. The fog is very heavy on the mountain and it was impossible to do anything further to-night. At daylight, however, the posse will be diyided up to cover the South 8prings road and San Isabel pass and two other roads leading up the mountain. An examination of the wire fencesshows that the murderer has not broken through there, and is, therefore, still in the road or dependent upon it between Smith’s and the observatory. The Sheriff says that if he abandons his horse and takes to the woods he will have still less ehance of escape, as the hounds will be placed upon his track with the start early to-morrow morning. Capture, he says, is certain in any case. The trails available for horses will bs 8o guarded that he will be caught if he keeps to them, if he abandons the horse and tries his luck afoot his progresswill be s0 slow that he must be quickly overtaken. Several persons reported as traveling the trail and supposed to be the murderer were run down to-night, only to discover that they were not the fagitive. Every member of the party is eager for daylight to resume pursuit, which has be- come exceedingly exciting as the nearness to their game is made evident. Dunham, ifhe does not take his own life, may rea- He was well acquainted | MeG LINCY. [From a photograph by Professor Haussler of San Jose.] Dunham did not speak, but | confessed the robbery to his wife and was forgiven. The couple came to this city last August on bicycles, and stated that they had rode up from Stockton. They obtained apart- ments at the residence of Mrs. E. W. Rivers, 1127 E street, and eventually Dun- bam obtained the restaurant privilege at Agricultural Park, which he conducted during the period of the State Fair, and it is said displayed a marked business ca- vacity and was extremely promps in the payments of all debts contracted, The married life of the couple was by no means a lengthened honeymoon, and it is claimed that Dunham displayed great bru- tality toward his wife, who seemingly worshipped the ground he trod on, and was always watching for a kindly look or word from the man she so evidently loved, yet feared. It was the old, old story of a man’s brutality to a woman and woman’s humility to a brutal man, Their wedded life abounded in quarrels, which on one occasion at least culminated in a battle, when it is claimed that Dunham uttered the most brutal threatis against his wife. She is a very quiet woman, who never ut- tered acomplaint to others of the treat- mert accorded her by her husband, and this to a certain extent may be accounted for by the evident fact that she was en- tirely controlled by her brutal husband. One morning before arising Mrs. Dunham took her watch from under her pillow, and after looking at it replaced it and went to sleep. Some two hours afterward she rose and dressed, but on looking for her watch found it had disappeared, as had all the balance of her jewelry. She comnplained to her landlady, and ihe latter positively assured her that no one had entered the house, and suggested that Mrs. Dunbam ask her husband about the disappearance of the valuables. 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KATIE CLAYPOOL, Ewing and Scott avenues. A JOSEPH DUNN, patient at City Hos- pital. Unknown child, Ann and California avenues. Child of Andrew J. Leincke, 2706 Ham- ilton avenue. Three unknown, at 1333 South Seventh. MALACHI McDONALD, 2745 Clark avenue. Unknown baby, picked up at Twenty- second and Market streets. JOEN PANDY, 1328 Mississippi avenue. — JONES, XEtna Iron Works. EMMA CHENEY and ISABELLA HORNE, 1432 Mississippi avenue. WILLIAM OTTENAD, 1700 South Broadway. WALLACE T. BUTLER (colored), £25 South Jefferson avenue. ROBERT MILLER, Blair and Benton streets. SILAS JONES, Twenty-first and Gra- tiot. LOUIS BOECKMAN, 614 Rutger. MRS. LOUIS BOECKMAN, 614 Rutger. GUSTAVE FULMER, 614 Rutger. JAMES KILLIAN, 614 Rutger. MRS. CLAYPOOL and child, 814 South Jefferson avenne. JOSEPH MILLER, Eighteenth and Choteau avenue. G. W. KNABEL, 1303 South Seventh. GEORGE HUBERT, showman of Min- neapolis, at Soulard Market. ANNIE DUGGAN, Eighth and Marion. MRES. 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