The record-union., 1896-05-28
One of the Victims Being the Wife Of
the Assassin.
Fourteen rlore Bodies, Victims OF
the Bridge Accident at Victoria,
Recovered, Bringing the Total
Number of Known Dead Up to
Seventy-Five-A Number of Vis-
itors Still Missing.

SAN JOSE. May pa terrible crime
was committed last night at Camp
bells, a small place six miles from
here 1t was the wholesale murder OF
a family. James Dunham killed Colonel
r. P McGlinchy and wife, their daugh-
ter Mrs. James Dunham, the wife OF
the murderer; James Wells, son OF
Mrs. McGinchy; Minnie Shesler, hired
woman, and James BriScOe, a hired
man.
Family troubles are said to have been
the cause of the frightful carnage
Dunham escaped and so far has not
been captured.
A neighbor named Page heard a
great many shots fired about midnight
at the McGlinchy place. A few min
utes later a man dashed by him on
horseback.
Page proceeded at once to McGlin-
chy's house and was Mortified to find
the body of the Colonel covered with
blood lying in an clubhouse. Inside the
house he found Mrs. McGlinchy and
her daughter stabbed to death.
The hired man and the girl had been
hacked to death with hatchet.
In the front room was the body of
James Wells. He was shot two or three
times, and there had evidently been a
terrible struggle between him and the
murderer. Blood had been splashed all
over the room, and before leaving the
room the assassin had fired the clothes
of his victim.
The only one left alive in the house
was a baby one month old, the child of
the murderer.
Durham was last seen riding rapidly
toward San Jose. A number of men
are in hot pursuit of him.
DETAILS OF THE CRIME.
SAN JOSE, May 27-Colonel Nc
Glinchy and George Schaeble a hired
man, left home early in the evening to
attend a meeting of the a. p. A. at
Campbells. What transpired after they
left the house can only be cOnjectured
by the scene which was presented upon
the arrival of the officers. 1t is supposed
that Dunham waited till those of the
family who remained at home were
about to retire, and had gone to their
respective apartments. Then the ma
MAC began the slaughter. In a room up
stairs he choked his wife to death. He
first placed a gag in her mouth and
then strangled her. The servant girl,
Minnie Shesler was killed with an ak.
Her head was split open, and the body
lay on the floor alongside the bed on
which Mrs. Durham had been strangled
The assassin next went down stairs
to the sleeping rooom of Mrs McGlin-
chy. She was killed with an ak, her
head being horribly crushed.
The murders, judging from the condi-
tion of the bodies, were committed
about 10 o'clock last night The mur-
derer then lay in wait for Colonel Nc
Glinchy, who returned to his home
about midnight, accompanied by Wells
and Schaeble, his hired man.
The story is now told by the latter,
who says that as they neared the house
McGlinchy told him to go to the barn
and throw done some hay 1t was
bright moonlight. The hired man went
to the barn and up to the loft He
heard shots, and looking out of the
window Of the loft saw McGlinchy
running away from the house toward
the cabin occupied by the hired man.
He was being pursued by Dunham, pis-
tol in hand.
Don't shoot me any morei" shouted
McGlinchy. II have two bullets in me
now He then reeled and fell
Schaeble stepped back from the win
dow, fearing he might become a target
for Dunham's pistol. He heard more
shots and looked out again.
These latter shots were probably the