The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-28

was one OF the very meanest-too mean to
be crazy, she says.
The little two-months-old baby boy
whom the murderer left lying asleep by
the side of the mother he had strangled,
and who has survived in the sea of blood,
will now fall heir to the McGlincy estate,
one of the handsomest tracts in the
county. There are some who make the
guess that it was all done to that end. But
unless he grows to be a man of his fathers
own CHASTITY kind he will never consider
himself rich with this legacy.
The story of the crime Is one that the
reader might turn away from with horror
and disbelief, save that he has been edu-
Gated to credit such things through the
series Of crimes that have marked the lat
ter months and years. The victims were
the murderer's wife, who was Colonel Nc
Glincy's stepdaughter; Mrs. McGlincy;
James K. Wells, son of Mrs. McGlincy;
Robert Brisco, hired man. Minnie She's
Ter, domestic, and Colonel McGlincy.
Colonel McGincy, young Wells and
George Schaible, hired man, left home
early in the evening to attend a meeting
of the American Protective Association at
Campbell. What transpired after they
the scene that was presented at the house
upon the arrival of the officers. 1t is sup
posed that 'Dunham waited till those Of
the family who remained at home were
about to retire and had gone to their respec-
tive apartments. Then he went to his
wife's room on the upper floor and
strangled her while she lay upon cot,
still i'll from her confinement, and with
bar hoIo hao
No, she was not strangied; but the mark
of his fingers are upon her neck, her
mouth was filled with clothes forced into
it and her neck was dislocated. He had
used her with such maniac force as to
break her neck by twisting her head to
one side.
The murderer began with the purpose
that he carried out, of killing all, for he
had armed himself.
Minnie Shesler, the domestic, was pre-.
pairing for bed in the adjoining room.
She heard the confused noise, and slip
ping on her dress, taking only time to
fasten the single button at the neck, she
ran into the room and was feiled as she
crossed the threshold by the blow of an
ak. She made no cry, for she scarcely
knew what was happening. The fiend
SIIuCh ueI again anu again WIN Cn6 edge
OF the ak, then turned it and crushed her
skull with several blows of the blunt end.
In his frenzy he also jammed some clothes
into her throat and threw her body along.
side the cot where lay his wife.
Then the fiend went downstairs to the
room of old Mrs. McGlincy. She was evil
IDENTIFY up and was about to inquire into
the strange noises overhead. He used the
ak here also. The old woman was struck
one blow with the edge of the ak and then
the weapon was turned and her skull
CO mpletely crushed with half dozen
blows from the blunt end.
Save for the baby that slept upstairs
the havoc was complete. The murderer
now ransacked the house for his own
effects, gathering together his letters and
photographs of himself, by which, in tax
ing them with him in his intended flight,
he hoped perhaps to make Identification
difficult.
But his work was not done. He had yet
TO kill Colonel McGiincy and his stepson,
jimmy Wells, who, unconscious of the
tragedy going forward in their own home,
were taking part in the American Protec-