The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1896, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS. ugitive Dunham Seen in| the Neighborhood of Hollister. | people of SEEKING A MOUNTAIN | HIDING-PLACE. ; Officers and Bloodhounds Again on the Trail of the Murderer. [ A FORTUNE OFFERED FOR HIM | DEAD OR ALIVE. Post | 1 Santa Clara County Citizens Rewards — A Lunatic Leads Searchers Astray. | | history. HOLLISTER, Car., June 2.—Sheriffs | Ballou and Lyndon, with the former's bloodhounds, arrived on the noon train to-day, and, accompanied by Sheriff Hol- brook, started for Quien Sabe Valley teen miles east of this place. A courier was sent ahe ad eariy this morning to pro- cure gnides and saddle norses. It was | learned from Lyndon that Dunham was seen last evening crossing the Malarin rancho, headed for the Quien Sabe. To reach Quien Sabe Dunham must pass | through Alvarado district, a sparsely set- tled region, where news of his crime will not be received for weeks to come. The inhabitants are principally Mexicans, who would furnish Dunham food or ammuni- The same is true of Quien Sabe, but the chances of hiding are fewer. Dunham can keep along the ridge as far as the New Idria mines, and thence to Cantna Can- von, the old retreat of the bandit Vas- quez. To head him off Sheriff Holbrook has dispatched Constable Stowell and a posse | to work their way down from Panoche. Holbrook, Lyndon and Ballou will search | the Quien Sabe, through the wild Cranky- | one country, while Shenft Matthews of Salinas with his hounds'is working up the Tres Pinos Creek to the mines. All peace offi ¢ this county have joined in the , four- ch. ! AN JOSE, CaL., June 2.—Sheriffs Lyn- don and Ballon took the south-bound train s morning, the former to head a posse | o follow a clew that was struck by Depu- ‘ie= Gardner and Pres Rivers between | Bells Station and the Mountfain House. | The indications were that the fugitive by | -ht marches was moving south as fastas | he could. Along the line several houses have been roken into, to afford shelter for portions | e night when the man was not travel- ng, the nights being very cold now in the At another point where a ad been broken into an old valise mour was found. It gave evidences of having ntained some provisions. ! While at Gilroy making arrancements | to resume the search, Gardner was joined by Sheriff Lyndon and Ballou from San | Jose and by Sheriff Matthews, who ar- rived with his hound on the morning train from Monterey. | The traces that Deputy Sheriff Gardner | bad obtained were regarded as of sufficient importance to warrant the body of officers in pushing along on that line. The party of officers took the train at Hollister and struck out in the direction the Mountain House and Bells station. m this point the chase will continue the Pacheco Pass in the direction of | ains. ot ¥ dow the New Idria mines. It would be a very natural and easy course for Dunham to pursue in attempt- ing to make his escape from the place | where he was last traced at Indian Gulch, | there being & pass south from that point through to Pacheco Pass. I'he three Sheriffs are .determined to keep out along that line until it is made certain beyond a doubt that Dunham s | not making his way through any of the | passes south, e CITIZENS OFFER GOLD. i ZLiberal Subscriptions to the Reward for | the Monster’s Capture. | SAN JOSE, Can, June 2.—One week | ago, at about the hour when, to-aight, an | immense mass-meeting of citizens in the Courthouse broke up, the bloody tragedy | at Campbells was perpetrated. Leaving pehind him the dead bodies of the entire | samily with which he had lived, together with those of two of its servants, and still | calling the name of the single individual | of the household that had escaped him, James C. Dunbam, the unsated murderer | of the McGlincys, rode away. The alarm that was given at midnight spread before noon of the next day over and awakened | an entire State to active pursuit or anx- | jous watchfulness. But he has kept in successful’ hiding while, it is feared, he constantly lengthens the chain that must | bind him to that field of blood at Camp- | bells. Excited reports have come from ery | quarter every hour of every day, ing the authorities warning that Dunham had been seen or that he had left evidences of his presence. In every case they have been promptly responded to by searching parties, and in every case but one they | have proved to be misleading. The single exception was at Smiths Creek; there only his tracks were found. Sherfff Lyndon and his men have not paszed an idle hour in this time. Return- ing from a four aays’ skirmish and bivouac on Mount Hamilton last night, thev | started back again almost immediately‘ upon an all-night ride in answer to the | most absurd and baseless report of them | all and returned again from it this morn- | Within a few hours they were off | again—this time in the direction of lh:-; New Idria mine, some thirty-five miles | south from Indian Gulch, where the mur- derer’s horse was found. The lead may or mean more than any of the be known in a few | ing not 4 others, That will hours. In the meantime, the citizens of the‘ county have come together to hold up the Bands of the Sheriff in his efforts, and it | | house to- | number of men who were willing to serve | a commitree was appointed to make a vig- | James C. Dunham came out of the house, | took his bicycle from Osgood’s establish- | immediate flizht. ! left behind some $1400 that was due on a | penuriousness. was determined at a mass-meeting that more than filled the rooms in the court- night that the rewards already the Governor and the people of | s should be supplemented by the the at large until it offered Campbe < ds out the sum of $10,000. co! rour Handbiils were distri ed about the streets to-d by a corps of messengers calling upon the people to attend the meetin the courthouse, and the re- sponse w ich that crowds were turned M. H. It was a business meeting. ands presided and District Attorney B. Herrington acted as secretary. Ad- were made by Dr. D. M. Liv- ingston, Under Sheriff Benson, Major Will M. Coulter and others. Under Sheriff Benson told of the active and unremi efforts and personal la- bors of th ff in the field and callea upon all to lend him their aid in whatso- ever manner they could. Dr. Livingston made or for the honor of the county that men and funds be supplied for the capture of the demon who had destroyed an entire family of the cowmunity and brought a lasting stain upon the county’s Sher M. M. Williams said there were a great der the direction of the authorities in the work of running down the murderer; would zo where they were sent and stay til they got their man if they were sup- dlied with horses and ammunition. Of this num ber himself was one, he said. The little address w s answered with applause. scut off the speech- This meeting was called for a definite purpose. It was called for the purpose of giving every citizen the op- portunity to show in a practical way his individual loyalty to the county and his own home. I will not call upon another man to make a speech until the subscrip- tion list is offered and signed. Our homes have been invaded; we must bring the criminal to justice; a force is needed; it is money. The announcement must go abroad to-night that Santa Clara County has within it that spirit that is disposed to protect its citizens, to suppress lawlessness and pupish crime. This is no time for selfishness, no time or place for cowardice, no time for meanness, This money must be subscribed. A dollar each from 10,000 of our ¢ attem seribi :ns would do it. Now if any man s to leave this place without sub- something, mark bim.” This was greeted with great applause, and a recess was declared for the purpose of circulating subscription blanks. Sev- eral hundred dollars was subscribed, and orous canvass and see to itthat the sum needed was raised. The committee con- s of M. H. Hylands, Gus Leon, L. A, Spitzer, Frank Baumgartener, A. K. Whit- ton, Mitchell Phillips. | Mr. Phillips, in a briel address, said the | money would certainly be raised; that the women of the county, who felt deeply stirred by this tragedy, would be enlisted, nd their influence would quickly bring results. Another of those curious stories that al- ways develop after a certain lapse of time in murder cases is being told hereto-night. It runs to the effect that two young men were gat g cherries for their personal benefit in the McGiiney orchard the night of the murder. They reached the orebard on bicycles, and while enjoying the fruit had occasion to watch the house pretty closely lest some member of the family should come out and interrupt them. Suddenly they saw the ligats go out. They heard no sound, but watcheda with greater intentness, anticipating some de- velopments. In the course of ten min- utes, about the period it took Dunham to murder three defenseless women, the bicyclists, full of cherries and cheeriul- | ness, made a move to regain the road. | They were held to the spot, however, by the McGlincy door suddenly opening. lit a cigarette, sat on the porch, and, quietly smoking, awaited the balance of the family. The cyclists, merely staying long enough to be certain Dunham had not seen them and entirely oblivious of the noiseless | tragedy which had taken place, remounted their bicycles and made for town. The | story is given for what it is worth. RE T HE PLANNED DELIBERATELY. Dunham Arranged Every Detail Before Slaying the MeGlincys. BAN JOSE, CaL., June 2.—That James C. Dunham had long contemplated the deed of blood that has shocked the coun- try, had laid his plans and chosen his time with careful deliberation, there is now no reason to doubt. He fixed upon the day and made ready to flee. He drew his money from the bank on Monday, winding up his account. On Monday he ment in this city, where it had been left for repair, and concealed it—no one knows where, All this indicates a calm preparation for his affairs in the McGlincy hovsehold; no sudden quarrel. His conversation with the young lawyer, W. H. Johnson, as_re- lated in THE CALL of this morning, is con- clusive proof that he had been meditating on the bloody deed for several weeks at least. With this perfect deliberation Dunham mortgage he held against a part of the estate of A. C. Penniman at the Willows. Dunham’s distinguishing characteristic, as everybody who knew him admits, was By waiting a few months at the furthest he could have secured this sum, and as he had already waited so long it seems curious that he should delib- erately forfeitit. His impatience for blood no doubt overcame avariciousness. That the loss of this money weighed upon bim there is ample proof in his re- cent attempts to coliect the sum speedily. The mortgage was due as long ago as 1894, but it had been allowed to run on, as Pen- niman kept the interest well paid up. In the latter part of March Dunham gave notice to Penniman that he wanted the money. Penniman told him that be would pay on April 5. Dunham con- seunted readily at the time, but a few days after he began suit to foreclose the mort- gage. He spent a great deal of time im- mediately after that in visiting the prop- erty-owners of the neighborhood, real es- tate agents znd others, making inquiries as to the value of the property and the There was no climax in | N {'\\Q SRR b \\fw\\i\ \‘ ) ~1 Man-Hunters Ascending a Steep Trail the Imagination of Wadlams, the Lunatic. chances of recovering the amount of his mortgage on a forced sale. But Penniman employed a lawyer, con- tested the case and won in court a prelim- inary point on a technicality, which prom- ised indefinite delays. Negotiations were then begun to settle out of court. A ques- tion of paying the costs was pending, but Dunham avoided Penniman, and the lat- ter insisted that Dunham had caused the expense and should pay. The matter was in this unsettled shape when Dunbam, grown impatient with the delay, no doubt, decided upon striking the blow and leay- ing the country. He was at school on Monday and Tues- day, but ke did not sleep at home Monday night. It has not yet been discovered where he spent the night. The presump- tion goes that he employed Monday night to ride to some distant point, where he concealed his wheel and whence he has | since recovered it and used it as a means of escape since abandoning his horse. - LED BY A LUNATIC. Wild-Goose Chase of Officers to the San Felipe Falloy. : S8AN JOSE, CaL, June 2.—A wild-eyed lunatic seems to be the necessary comple- ment of every great tragedy. lams is his name in this case. He isthe man who started Sheriff Lyndon and posse off into the mountains last night before they had shed the dust of five days’ mountaineering from their shoes. He is the man who invented the wonderfully detailed story of Dunham buying a rifle at Coe’s ranch, paying liberal sums for a small bottle of whisky, of his finding bicycle tracks on the mountain trails and over bridges, punctured here and there with the tracks of the celebrated pointed shoes. with that surprising suddenness of the jack-out-of-the-box, the spring having been touched. Sheriff Lyndon returned to town this morning in a humor to slam down the lid over Mr. Wadlams and to puta padlock on it. The posse had an all-night ride in Continued on Fourth Page. Wood Wad- | Wadlams sprang into notoriety | DEMOCRATS DON'T KNOW WHAT'S BEST, Concede That the 16 td 1 Policy Will Prevail at Chicago. WHOM WILL THEY NOMINATE? Teller a Strong Possibility, While Stevenson May Be Entered to Beat Morrison. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, June 2.—The | gilver Democrats are assuming and the gold men generally conceding that the 16 | to 1 policy will prevail at Chicago. On this assumption there is much activity | among friends of the several possible can- | didaves to get them in the field. The | boom for Vice-President Stevenson, which is supported in the Senate, is meeting with considerable opposition in the House. Though some of the Senators who are working for Stevenson are among the most radical silver men, this does not sat- isfy all the silver men that Stevenson is firm enough of their faith to make a suit- able candidate to stand for silver alone. They object to his lack of activity in the interest of silver, and say it is not enough that he should favor silver passively. What they want is a canaidate who has won fame as a silver champion. The boom, however, appears to be more sub- stantial than it was first thought to be. An effort is beine made with some suc- cess to have him adopted as a Senate can- didate, and some men of considerable in- fluence are behind it. For a long time the men who are now for Stevenson held off {and coula not be induced to adopt the Vice-President. Their desire to kill off the Morrison boom is an incentive, and with the practical certainty that the silver men will control the convention the leaders of that wing of the party are taking a very decided stand against sny sort of compromise either as to candidates or platform. Mor- rison stands in tne attitude of an “‘avail- able ’ compromise candidate, who, being a gold man, would approve silver legisla- tion. In the fear that having many friends among the silver men he right develop great strength if supported by a gold minority, the radicals want to get him off the track. The most obvious way to accomplish this is to boom Stevenson as the Illinois candidate. That, and the fact that Stevenson has many friendsin the Senate, have given the Stevenson boom a big start. Many who are willing that.tbe Vice-President should be used to kill off Morrison are fearful that Steven- son might develop too much strength, and a quiet but very earnest movement of counteraction has been started. #1The great] fear of the radicals is that if a man of not very pronounced views is selected as candidate his influence will be exerted toward harmonizing the party by softening the silver declaration. They want a man whose name, regardless of platform, would mean free silver at 16 to 1, and would be free from any temptation to make friends with the other side. Most of those who do not take to the Stevenson idea are talking Boies. There is more talk of the Jowa man than any one else. There has developed a movement for Teller which is more serious than the idle gossip which has been indulged in hereto- fore. The discussion of a bolt at the Chicago convention has now turned on the problem of what the gold men will do. The silver men are trying to confound the adminis- tration people with their own arguments against bolting, bat the silver men prefer .' Say, what’s the matter with those fellows, anyway ? Do I look as if I'd kick 2 ” TS Y 0, JATTIN in San Felipe Valley in a Search for the Tracks of Dunham, Which Were Imprinted Only on defiance to conciliation. The declaration of Mr. Harrity that Democrats must stand oy the party no matter what the conven- tion does is being repeated by Hill, Brice, Lindsay, Grey and the rest of the gold Democrats in the Senate, but none of them believe that the voters can be held against their convictions on this question. Soiegee SILVER MEN CONTROL. Kentucky’s Convention Will Seore the Cleveland Administration. LEXINGTON, Ky., June 2.—Nearly all the delegates to the Democratic State Con- vention, which meets here to-morrow, have arrived. The silver men scored a greater victory than they anticipated, and they scarcely know how to use the strength with which they have become so suddenly endowed. About fifty stanch siver lead- ers assembled in Blackburn’s headquar- hours talked the matter over. After two hours’ debate it was decided to not cen- sure President Cleveland and Secretary Cariisle by name in the platform, but to condemn.the National administration in as strong language as possible. They agreed that on the money question the resolution should instruct the delegates to support a free-silver advocate for Demo- cratic candidate for President. The organization of the State Central Committee will occasion a bitter fi.Lt. The old committee goes out of existence to-night and the convention will form a new one. Many of Blackburn’s friends were gold-standard men, and it seems that Blackburn is in favor of recogniziug them by placing several of them on the commit- tee. It 15 given out that S:nator Goebel, one of Blackburn’s strongest supporters and a sound-money man, will be pushed for chairman of the committee. R REPUBLICANS OF MAINE. | They Will Send Delegatss to 8t. Louis Pledged to Reed. BANGOR, M., June 2.—The Republi- cans of Maine met in convention here to- day. The assembly was called to order by J. H. Manley, chairman of the State Cen- tral Committee, who introduced Harrold M. Sewell of Bath as temporary chairman. things: “The Republicans of Maine join their brethren of other States in presenting a candidate whose platform is already writ- ten—written when he declared that the proudest part of the proud record of the Republican party is its devotion to the cause of sound finance,’ written in the rec- ord of his life—whose nomination means election, whose election means Republican supremacy not for four but for twenty-four years to come. *‘Master of himself as the nation knows him to-day—his lips ‘not sealed in silence when silence is dishonor, nor opened to words that are meant to have no meaning, his lofty spirit unswerved from its high purpose even for the price of the Presi- dency itself, conservative without com- promise, brave without rashness, un- daunted to-day as he has been undaunted ever—I need not name him. He leads in your hearts, and there has been a vacancy in that leadership since. Broken-hearted you turned from the death bea of Blaine, and in the full glory of his record and the promise of illimitable achievements yet to come you centered your pride of State and party feaity upon Thomas B. Reed. His name your chosen delegates carry to St. Louis, and to guide their actions there they need only the instructions of their hearts.” Mr. Sewell's reference to Reed carried the convention by storm. At the close of his speech the temporary organization was made permanent, and a short recess was taken to enable the county delegations to select representa- tives for the different committees. The platform declares in favor of “the restoration of that Republican policy of protection taught by Lincoln, illustrated by the signal prosperity of the country Continued on Third Page. ters, at the Senator’s request, ana for two | In his speech Mr. Sewell said among other | LIWTS 55U OF GOLD BOADS Consent Must Hereafter Be First Obtained From Congress. S0 SAYS THE SENATE'S MAJORITY. Grover Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle Receive a Rather Severe Rebuke. CLOSE VOTING ON THE BILL AFTER THE DEBATES, Ameéndments Defeated and the Meas- ure Passed by Thirty-Two to Twenty-Five. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—An eight hours’ session of the Senate was wound up to-day by the passage of the bill to probibit the issuance of interest- bearing bonds without the consent of Con- gress. All amendments with a motion to postpone were voted down by a majority of seven, aud the bill was passed by a like majority—32 to 25. A speech was made early in the day by the chairman of the Finance Committee (Morrill of Vermont) on the Dingley emergency tariff bill. In his remarks he intimated that Democratic Senators were so much afraid that the Populists were going to get the better of them that they hurried to become Populists themselves by voting for the free-coinage substitute to the Dingley bill. The conference report on the Indian ap- propriation bill (as to Indian citizenship) was discussed from the close of Morrill's speech until 1 o’clack, when the morning hour expired, and the bill to prohibit the 1ssuance of bonds without the consent of Congress was taken up. | Tothat billan amendment was offered by Aldrich of Rhode Island to add the words, ‘“‘unless in case of emergency it necessary to preserve the public credit.” The bill was advoeated by Brown of Utah and Teller of Colorado, and was op- posed by Allison of Iowa and Chandler of New Hampshire. Cannon declared that the great beating heart of the intermoun- tain States was for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and took for its leader Henry M. Teller of Colorado—not John Sherman of Ohio. Allison characterized the risk of a re- lapse into the conditions which prevailed between 1861 and 1879 as a most unwise anda unjust thing, and said that no part of the pedple of the United States could be benetited by such a relapse. Speeches against the bill were also made by Burrows of Michigan and Palmer of Iilinois. Then the voting began. All the amend- ments were voted down, the bill was | passed, and the Senate at 7:10 adjourned until to-morrow. * Y g 6L EAT BATTLE OF DEBATE. Allwson and Other Leaders in the Senates Talk Finance. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2. — The Senate met an hour earlier tban usual to- day in order to give a longer time for con- sideration of the bond bill. In his open- ing prayer the chaplain referred to the fact that the Vice-President would bestow in marriage to-day an estimable daughter, and invoked divine benediction on the Lappy pair. A partial conference report on the gen- eral deficiency appropriation bill was pre- sented and agreed to and a further confer- ence ordered. Senate bill to promote the efficiency of the militia was reported from the Commit- tee on Military Affairs by Hawley (R.) of Connecticut, and was placed on the calen- dar after a few explanatory remarks. Every President, he said, from Washing- ton down to the year 1843, had cailed attention repeatedly to the inefficiency, the utter uselessness of the old law requir- ing the enrollment of every single man | irom 18 to 45 vears of age. That law had diei out. Then there nad grown up a | sys:em of National guards throughout the States. This was practically an organized militia, and the other was practically a reserve militia. The bill now reported proceeded on the theory of recognizing what is in fact in existence, put in the form to repeal the rubbish of the old law. There were some delicate questicns in regard to the use of the army, out this bill had nothing to do with the amendment. It was simply a business reorganization. It would not come up this session, but he had desired to make these remarks in order to forefend possibie misapprehen- sion. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into matters in the Southern Judicial District of Indian Ter- ritory, among other things, the receivers’ certificates by authority of the court for the construction of the Denison and North- ern Railway. The matter went over with- out action. In pursuance of notice given yesterday the Dingley taniff bill was laid before the Senate, and Morrili (R.) of Vermont, chair- man of the Finance Committee, addressed the Senate 1n relation to it. “When Congress met here in December last,” he began, ‘“all Republicans were supposed to be agreed, in view of the fail- ure of the Wilson tariff bill in suppiying sufficient revenue, to add to the receipts of the treasury thirty or forty million dol- lars by amending the exsting Democratic tariff. They knew it could not be done by a plenary and thoroughbred tariff bill so long as the executive department was un- der Democratic control, nor so long as the leadership of the Senate Populists wabbled between the learned and iridescent farmer of Nebraska and the veiled prophet of Kansas. All knew, however, that any tar- iff additions woula afford some incidental | protection. The tariff bill of the House of 9,