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

1t is supposed that Dunham killed the
three women at 10 o'clock at night. It
was after II o'clock when Colonel Nc
Glincy and Jimmy Wells and the hired
man, George Sehaible, returned home.
During these two hours the murderer
waited in the charnel-house. In this
charnel-house, the bodies of his victims
lying in his way, did he attempt to move
about, listening to the drip, drip, drip Of
the blood of his wife and of Minnie Shes
Ter as it percolated through the crevices OF
the floor above and mingled with that of
the old woman downstairs2 Did ne gaze
upon the slow spread of crimson over the
carpet, and the white, distorted faces of
the three dead women? For it was not so
dark, the full moon Illuminating the
rooms.
There was sleeping in little shanty
hundred yards from the house hired
man, Robert Brisco. He lay there all that
time, also unconscious of the doom that
was waiting him. 1t may not have been
the purpose of Durham to Kill this man.
If the guesses as TO the motive of the
crime, that Durham did this thing to
leave his little boy this bloody heritage,
be correct, then he probably did not. He
became a natural victim of the incidents
of the second chapter of the story of
slaughter.
As Colonel McGlincy and Wells and
Schaible approached the house on the
road from town they passed the shanty
where SchaibIe slept and the barn which
is near it. McGlincy told Schaible to open
the barn, as it must be very hot in there.
and throw down some hay. That order
saved young Schaiple's life. He opened
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to open window there. AS he did so he
heard several shots fired from within the
McGlincy house. The murderer had re-
sumed his work.
Colonel McGlincy opened his front door
with a latch-key. AS he stepped into the
dark hall be was struck on the side of the
head with that terrible ak and fell to the
floor. Young Jimmy Wells was just be-
hind him, and before the murderer could
raise his weapon again he grappled with
him.
Then Durham fell back upon the re-
sources he had provided for such an
emergency, and, dropping his ak, drew a
revolver. A short but terrific fight fol-
lowed, the witnesses of which are broken
furniture, guitar crushed to fragments,
torn clothes and blood over everything, q
track leading through the hall and two
rooms at the end of which track the body
of Jimmy Wells was found with five bull
let's, one passing clear through and into
the floor. He died hard, but there was no
doubt that he was dead.
McGlincy had not been rendered insen-
sible by the blow of the ak, for his hat had
broken its force. He sprang to his feet
and in his terror ran through the house
and sprang through an open window in
the rear, where marks of bloody fingers
tell of it. He ran around the house, and
Schaible, standing in the rear of the barn,
saw him running toward him, or rather
toward the mems sleeping shanty. He
was crying murder and calling for help.
He had reached point opposite the front
of the barn when Schaible saw Durham
leap out Of the front door and follow after
him, firing revolver as he went
McGlincy reached the shanty, however,
sprang in and braced himself against the
door. Durham was at the door in an in
slant. As he ran Schaible climbed through
the rear window OF the barn that he had
Just opened, and, mounting to the loft,
saw through the open door all that fol-
lowed. Durham threw himself against
the door of the shanty, but it remained
firm.
"Come out. Mac" he said. "Come out;
want to see you"
There was no reply.
"Come out, Mac" said Durham. ST am
bound to have you, anyhow. Bob, come
out here; want you, too" he continued,
land you, too, Schaible."
He referred to Robert Brisco and to
Schaible, who was, unknown to him,
watching from the barn. He was talking
in rapid but perfectly distinct and ap-
parently not very excited manner. Nc
Glincy answered him:
"I won't come out, Jim; have two bull
lets in me now. Put up your revolver"
Very well, 1 will. Now come out"
"No; won't come out" said McGIincy.
Then Durham placed the revolver to the
cabin door and fired through a crevice.
The powder-marks are upon the door. He
fired again through the door. at that
Robert Brlsco, the hired man, sprang
through the rear window and started to
run along the fence. Durham heard this
and was after him in an instant.
He fired but two shots in quick success
sion, and both of them were true. Brisco
fell by the fence with bullet through his
heart and another tn rough both lungs.
Both of them passed completely through
the body. The murderer handled his
revolver with as deadly effect as he had
welded his ak.
Colonel McGlincy took advantage of the
diverted attention of the murderer and
opening the door of the cabin started again
toward his own house. He had made
scarcely twenty PAGES when the man with
the revolver was upon him and he fell with
ball in his heart.
With all this, the murderer's hot brain
had not lost its ability to count. Every
body in sight upon the estate had fallen
before him. But he remembered there
was another. What had become of George
Schaible2 He should have been in his
cabin with Robert Br1sco. So he went
about the place calling:
George! George Schaiblel Where are
you George? l want you"
And George Schaible, paralyzed with
fear, stood in a loft Of the barn and saw
him through a crevice ana heard him;
saw the CLEAN OF the long revolver in the
moonlight; watched him circle the cabin;
saw him stop as though bordering what to