The record-union., 1896-06-05
Took Supper at a House in Pincche
Valley Tuesday Night.
A Kern County Sheepherder Has a
Desperate Encounter With GriZ-
Zly Bear, Narrowly Escaping With
Horribly Burned by an Explosion
of Turpentine.

SAN JOSE, June 4.-The report of
Under Sheriff Mansfield of San Mateo
County and Deputy Sheriff Haeden of
this county, who returned tonight
from the south, strengthens the belief
that the trail upon which Sheriffs Lyn-
don and posse and Deputy Sheriff Juan
Edison and posse are working is correct.
Under Sheriff Mansfield left on Sun
day for Bells Station, and worked
northeast across the mountains as far
as San Joaquin County. They first
struck the trail of Dunham at the
Mountain House, in Pacheco Pass,
where he was seen by vaqueros jump
ing out of a manger at 4 o'clock on
Monday morning They next heard of
him twenty-five miles on the divide,
where he passed the same evening
about 6 o'clock through wheat field
on the Drew ranch. Here he robbed the
garden patch of a quantity of peas.
About thirty-five miles below this
point he was found to have taken sup
per at the Mercer ranch, at the head
of the Little Pinoche Valley. Mrs. Mer-
Ger stated that the man took supper at
her house on Tuesday night She Of
fered him a bed in the barn upon some
offer and went to the bed of the creek
to pass the night She saw him come
from the creek early the next morning,
but he did not stop for breakfast, and
went down the creek bed.
When the officers showed Mrs. Mer-
Ger a picture she stated positively that
he was the man who had stopped at her
house for supper. She did not think,
scratches upon his face.
The officers followed the gulch for
about twenty miles, but heard nothing
of the murderer, returning by a cir
cuitous route. They met Sheriff Lyn-
don and posse after travelling north for
about twenty miles, and told them
what they had heard. and the latter
pushed on in that direction.
The times at which Durham is al
legged to have been seen correspond ex-
actly to the time in which a pedestrian
is liable to have taken to traverse the
rough country in which he was, and
strengthens the belief that the Sher-
ifs are on the right trail, and only a
short distance behind the fugitive mur-
derer.
The country through which the
trailed man has passed it is said, af-
fords ample opportunity. for securing
both food and water. Wood choppers
have cabins along the route, and these
are fairly supplied with provisions and
left open during the days when the
men are at work some distance away
The territory east of the Pinoche VAL
| ley is described as being principally
| rolling land, in which a pedestrian
could make good time but it is also
| accessible to a horseman
| A posse of four horsemen with
blankets and provisions left here to-
night for Tres Pinos. and will push on
tc the route supposed to have been
| taken by the murderer The posse
consists of Ira Woods, William VAL
pey, j. d. Wieland and Seth Churchill.
| SEEN IN FRESNO COUNTY.
| SAN JOSE, June AT O'Clock this
afternoon the Sheriff received a tele-
phone message from Hayes Station.
Fresno County, from Juan Edison. who
is in pursuit of murderer Dunbam.
/ stating that the latter had passed there
yesterday afternoon. He was dressed in
! the same suit of clothes he wore in San
Jose, and the description given of him
fitted him in every particular Edison
said he was hot on the fugitive's trail.
The Sheriff Immediately notified all Off
GERS In the vicinity to be on the look
out.