The record-union., 1896-05-29
THE SANTA CLARA FIEND.
Dunham Resided in This City for Some
Months.
He Quarreled With His Wife and
Stole All Her Jewelry
From Her.

night last murdered his Wife, Hattie,
her stepfather, Colonel K. +. Nc
Glincey and his wife, his brother-ln-
law, James K Wells, and two servants,
Minnie Schessler and Robert Briscoe,
was resident of this city from the lat
ter part of August, last year, until the
latter part of November, and together
with his wife occupied rooms at the
residence of Mrs. E. w. Rivers at 1127
E street.
Dunham and his wife came to the
city from Stockton upon bicycles, and
after taking rooms with Mrs. Rivers,
Mrs. Dunham and that lady formed a
partnership for the purpose OF con-
Quoting a lunch stand at Fifteenth and
NJ streets during the State Fair.
While Durham was not a party to the
arrangement, the ladies kindly allowed
him a corner of the impromptu stand
from which to sell cigars and tobacco,
and everything went on smoothly
enough until a difficulty was started on
account of some crockery, which had
been rented from Thieben of the
Crystal Palace, on ] street. 1t may
be said here that the trouble was the
cause of long and wearisome lawsuit
which was only ended last week by
Thieben'S defeat at every point, and
when it was all over So 60 remained to
be divided between Mrs. Rivers and
Mrs. Durham.
Mrs. Rivers noted that all was not
just as it should be between Dunham
and his wife, and that the latter was
inclined to weeping spells, and always
seemed to be in distress, which may,
Mrs. Rivers thought, have been occa-
stoned by her being in delicate con-
dition.
On one occasion James K. Wells,
brother to Mrs. Durham, and one of
Dunham's victims, was a guest at the
house for three days, and while he was
there Dunham and his wife had a spat.
Mrs. Dunham came out of her room
and told Mrs. Rivers that her husband
had called her a id fool. She was
crying bitterly.
On another occasion Durham came
home late at night and Mrs. Rivers
heard noise as if a tussle was going
on in the Durham room. About an
hour later Mrs. Durham left the house
and was absent about an hour and a
half. The next day she informed Mrs.
Rivers that she had tried to run bluff
on Dunham, by telling him she was
going to a drugstore, but the bluff did
not work, as he remained quietly in
bed until she returned.
All this time Mrs. Dunham had re-
ceived letters from her mother and
stepfather, many of which she showed
to Mrs. Rivers. In one, which the lat
ter lady recalled, while being inter-
viewed by "Record-Union" reporter,
Mrs. Mckinney had written, Come
home, Hattie. This is the place for you
il your condition." and in the same
letter the Colonel had also invited her
to come home. Mrs. Durham always
cried while reading her mothers let
terS.
Durham intended taking his wife to
Denver, and this was one of the things,
Mrs. Rivers believes, which made her
so unhappy.
Toward the latter part of November
Mrs. Rivers gave the Dunham's three
days notice to vacate, and the causes
leading up to the notice were as fol-
lows:
One evening about $50 o'clock Mrs.
Dunham confided to her landlady that
y,
consisting Of a $50 gold watch, a pres
ent from her mother; $50 chain with
diamond pendant, and a diamond
brooch, consisting of a crescent and a
star, and that she discovered the loss as
early as IL o'clock in the morning.
Mrs. Rivers was up in arms at once.
and told her tenant that no one had
been in the room except Dunham, and
| that she believed he was the thief. Upon
| this Mrs. Durham became indignant.
| and declared that her husband knew
nothing about 1t.
Then why didn't you notify me or
the Chief of Police about the robbery
earlier in the day?" queried Mrs
Rivers.
| Because If did" renliad Mrs Dpn