The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-12-04

ruv nuxFrELD TRAGEDY The lapse
..-.otv.eouir hours since the sppsIl.
trsssdy of Sunday night. losea
~ il horrors. OF all the crimes
n;ue1 here since the pail 0f night
'.ettled over SEATTLE, this was the
6endioh aud cruel The Coroner's
:...st Was held yesterday morning.
- allowing jurors being summone .:
= = shorey, +. n SEWER. ]. d Smith.
- Pinkham. w. C. Hxtthnrn and Jas
: Jodss. They rendered . verdict to
- 800 that the deceassd wss named
s,v DsnoeId; thss be was . native OF
r;,riris ard aged sbout 81 years; that
- 20 his death On the Sd day 81
ns-hef. 1877. in this county, By his
- md, 70 wit: by sbo'ting him~li
= - bsad with . pistol and taking
S,.eAuips. and that the act resulted
~ temporary insanity. The festi-
-cuy Of the two girls is that they went
= nd shout 10 O'Clock. and after. .
-hile their father came up aud lay
Sovn a . n.as,,as,. His wife came up
- no 70 bed but he drove her away
An him, aud she went down stairs
snd at in chair by the Ore, where she
RI apleep. TIE next thing they hSard
- the scuffls occasioped BY his cutting
IL vife's throat and that between MIN
~ Hopper. when they started dawn
- ssd met him coming up. The
vuuueer girl slipped by him. but the
elder ran back into the garret. aud got
outsids on the porch. Hs then IN"
6ovn sssirs after the second daughter.
chssing her into the yard and cut her
or the back of the neck with butcher
tnife His wifs's throAt no cut with .
rasor. After cutting bis daughter. he
~ into the kitchen ard shot himself
Il the back of the bead with
hcre navy revolver. n. then went
no stsirs and taking doss If strych.
nipe disd ON his mattrsss Hop
uar AVS that Dunield came into bis
S,um with . ls3ter in one hand
and ~ * in tho other. He saw bis
danger, and dodged under Dunfeld's
nm. q the az fell. Hs then run to
peiehbor's house tor assistance. Mrs
Dupiisld il in : very critical condition,
bsr throat bsing cut nearly from ear to
~. md Der windpipe being slmnst s,,-
tirely severed by tn. rsz,r. which bare
n sscnped cutting the main arteries Of
The nsck. She was sitting asleep in the
chsir q the time, and did not hssr MIN
until be seizsd her by the bead, and
drew the razor across her throat. An
oancs bottle of strychnins was found
b. the side Of his bed. nearly empty.
showing conclu.ively that h. bad taken
Q vssy large dose Of the deadly drug.
That Dun6eld hes been more or less
csasy ct different times. there can he
10 doubt. aud it 10 said he WAS once an
inuaee Of the insane asylum 1t Stock
ton. He has always bSsn more OF less
tsoubled about his financial affairs. He
hsd = good place on the Duwamish
rives. whsfe he Y nted to reside. bat
- wife preferred to 1.-Two in the city,
and he could not make living here
hat kept going deeper in debt
Last Sunday afternoon he st cd
il front Ut this Office aud was inhslinR
chloroforn from handkerchief, when
orr ssporter asked him what be wns do
log that Tor. Mr.. DunHeld replied that
h IVES panied with neuralgia. He had
just soA his fArm through Angus Mack
issosh to parties in Port Gamble fur
$500, but had not yet received the
aonsy. This case only goes to show
thas nsn who have msnifes'ed symp-
toms Of insanity should not bs suffered
b b ct large. There are other men
walking the streets Of this city every
dsy, who ought to bs locked mp. II We
veee TO name them we should be Get
douu = msd3lssnms inserlop-r. But
soue 81 th ~ days there will be snoth-
= OsnAeld tragedy and then every
hoiy v ser It plainly en- ulh. These
dangerous people should b. seat to .
sa1s placr. No matter what their rels-
lions think 1T 1t.