The San Francisco call., 1896-06-10
BEGs FOOD OF BOTH.
The Stranger Stops a Woman
and Asks for a Morsel
to Eat.
APPLIES AT A RANGHHoUsE
He Is Heavily Armed and Bears
Scars Indicating a Recent
Encounter.

SAN JOSE, CAL, June 9.-since the
exciting news of Murderer James c.
Dunham' IS appearance at Smiths Creek no
reports have been received at the Sheriff's
Office that afford more hope than message
which came this afternoon from San
Miguel, and which seems to give reliable
information that Dunham was within
mile of that town Monday night. The
message was received at 3 80 P. NJ. and was
from U. S. Holmes of San Miguel.
1t stated that man supposed to be
Dunham was seen on Monday afternoon at
o'clock on the road one mile south of
San Miguel. A lady who was driving
along the road was stopped by the fellow
and he begged her to give him some food.
She noticed that he wore dark clothes,
black cloth hat, had scar on his face and
another on the back of his left hand, which
had evidently been badly scratched. His
feet were wrapped in sacks. His trousers
were badly torn and about his waist was
belt filled with cartridges. Before leaving
her the stranger begged that she say moth
ing about meeting him.
That the description in the dispatch
does not fully correspond with the many
other descriptions given by people who
have imagined that they had seen the
murderer adds weight to the supposition
that the man was Durham, inasmuch as
it shows that the woman did not model
| her description from what she had read as
to Dunham's s appearance.
When last seen Dunham did not have
cloth hat as she reported this man to have
worn, but it is not unlikely that he had All
extra hat along with him.
In addition to this message letter was
received at the Sheriff's Office from w. P.
Carey of Carey Bros, East San Jose butch
ers written under date of this morning
from Bradley, conveying further evidence
that Dunham is in the San Miguel country
and is making southwark as rapidly as
| possible.
! Mr.. Carey had been in Chotme Valley,
several miles from San Miguel where he
was purchasing cattle. On his way home
| he stopped at a place called Stacks Can
( yon, and remained at John Meadows
! house last night.
! Meadows told him that a suspicious
! looking fellow stopped at his house about
o'clock Sunday night and asked for
/ something to eat. He described the
! stranger to Carey as a man wearing a
/ black sack coat and soft brown hat
| When he came to the door he had re-
| volver in his right hand and, on being in
vited in he left an overcoat outside by the
door, under which he put rife or shot
! gun. When be had finished eating his
meal he left a half-dollar on the table and
went away without asking any questions
| TJa oil doro hlo N inc halt
which he wore.
The landlord did not suspect the stranger
of being the much-wanted murderer, be-
cause of the fact that he and his wife had
heard nothing of the case, but he did be-
| lieve he was criminal.
On Monday he told neighbor of the
! fellow visit, and when shown picture of
| Dunham he identified it as being like
ness of the visitor.
The traveller was on foot, and Mr.. Carey
stated in his letter that the country in
that locality is so extremely rough that he
could stay there for long time without
! being seen.
These reports caused a complete change
of the plans made by Sheriff Lyndon, for
| before they were received he and Deputy
Juan Edison had started for Bakersfield.
The reports from Bakersfield on Monday,
to the effect that Durham, or a man very
much resembling him, was in that local
ity, were the best the Sheriff had to work
upon, and he therefore decided to go
south.
He and Edison boarded the lis train for
Oakland this afternoon, and would have
gone on to Bakersfield had they not been
headed off by a telegram from Under
Sheriff Benson apprising them of the re-
ports from San Miguel. They returned to
! San Jose this evening on the 8 80 train.
Bradley is hardly more than stopping
place on the railroad, eleven miles north
of San Miguel, and Stacks Canyon, where
Durham was seen Sunday night, is a few
miles distant.
! Sheriff Lyndon upon his return decided
that he and Edison would board the 10:17
| clock train tomorrow morning for San
Miguel, and from that point endeavor to
get on Dunham's trail and run him down.
Under-Sheriff Benson sent kilograms to
all of the officers he could reach in the
San Miguel country, and also to Sheriff
Ballou of San Luis Obispo, Sheriff Mat
thews of Salinas and Sheriff Holbrook of
| Hollister. Both Ballou and Holbrook will
probably join Sheriff Lyndon tomorrow
morning, the former at San Miguel and
the latter at Sargents station. Sheriff
Matthews may possibly become one of the
party.
Division Superintendent Frazer was at
San Luis Obispo tonight and a telegram
was selI 10 HlIu asking IndC rd1lIodu COLL
ductors and brakemen on his division be
notified as soon as possible to be on the
alert for Dunham.
Both clews being more than ordinarily
plausible, the officers conclude that Dun
ham travelled from Stacks Canyon to San
Miguel during Sunday night and Monday.
He would, therefore, have about forty
eight hours the start of them when they
reach San Miguel.
A message from Salinas says that a
! Sheriff IS posse started on the search as
soon as the woman who had encountered
Dunham made known the incident. Men
are now securing the country.
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