The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20
SLARKaRD rs AFTER DUKHAM.
The Fearless arizona Sheriff Goes From
PhRHx in Quest of the
Murderer

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Dec. 1a.-There are
plenty OF signs which show that Marsha
Gard has not given up the search for Muir.
derer Dunham in San Diego County or be-
low the line. He is now working, it is
said, to secure the proper papers emitting
him to enter Mexican territory, and in the
meanume has several other strings out,
all pointing to plan to locate and cap
ture Dunham at his supposed hiding
place near the Mexican line.
A search is about to be made for Dun.
ham by Deputy Sheriff Charles Standard
of Maricopa County, Arizona. Standard
is an old friend of Marshal Gard and has
worked with him in many an important
Government case when Gard was United
States Marshal. Standard is as fearless as
they are made in Arizona, where fearless
men are the rule. He is a tall, lean, desert
Drowned fellow, with keen eyes and a
record for daring that is no. stained, like
many others, by stories of dishonor OF
fraud.
Just before Marshal Gard appeared in
San Diego on his way to hunt for Dunham
Deputy Sheriff Standard in Phoenix began
to display sudden longing to discover the
Pegleg mine, said to have existed on the
desert in San Diego County. Standard is
a practical man, but he declared that he
had received clew to the mine that would
lead him to it and make him millionaire.
His acute attack of lost-mine fever sur
prised all his friends, but as he is inte-
rested more or less in mining they attrib-
uted it to q prospector's alluring tale and
advised Standard to have nothing to do
with it. The Deputy Sheriff insisted that
there was something in it and made prep
arations to leave Phoenix with a pack out
fit in search of the Peplep
The most significant thing in connec-
ton with Standards trip was his remark
to several friends that his tip led him to-
ward the Mexican line in San Diego Coun-
ty, and not toward the Riverside County
line, where the Pegleg is supposed, ac-
cording to tradition, to hide its cleaning
veins. Standard declared that the mine
lay right on the boundary line, or Just be-
low il, and he SAID he could find it without
any trouble at all. Ii he had come straight
across in the direction he indicated he
would have encountered Marshal GARD
and his party. This circumstance points
to Murderer Dunham as the PegIeg that
Standard is after. He is wasting less time
hunting mythical gold mines than his
Phoenix friends believe.
Sheriff Lyndon, when he was here,
dropped theremark that one of his clews
pointing toward Dunbam's presence in
this section was from d prospector who
had come down the Colorado River. He
knew Dunham, and notified the Sheriff
that Dunham had come down the river
part way with him, and then struck west
along the Mexican line. This trail with.
out doubt, is the one now being followed
by Deputy Sheriff Standard. 1t is not
known tere just when Standard started,
but he was expected at Yuma on Thurs
day. Standard knows every foot of the
desert, having been formerly a guide be-
tween San Diego and Yuma. He carried
mail for several years across the Ore ary
waste and also drove a stage.
If Dunham has chosen the desert for a
hiding place, Standard Is as good man
as Gard could engage to find the fugitive
and gather him in.