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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-11-25
EVINIE BROS,

1885,
spledi roony, the
evidence of their appreciation OF
patronage o
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-11-25

Fair Haven, Ohio, opposite this
place, is to be lighted with gasoline
lamps, the enterprising people of
that village having bought por-
ton of the old street lamps of this
town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-11-25

II. MITCHELL, Clerk.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-11-25

IF this town had dozen or more
small industries, employing from
five to twenty-five hands each, it
would be one of the most prosper
GUS towns along the Ohio valley.
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l,N
LEVINE BROTHERS

Will Ohlinger, the would be-
white-capper, broke the chain TO
the ball attached to his leg, and got
away from the Street Commission
or. The police run him down, and
he is agoin in Jail, being placed
there yesterday morning,
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DELV|NG FOR DEAD
AND THE INJURED.
[Continued from First Page.l

KILLIAN, HENRY GIBSON, Missouri
and Geyer avenues.
HARRY WEBER, 73O South Fourth
street.
HARRY HESS. 11oe South Ninth street.
HENRY KEELING, 1924 Oregon ay-
enue.
JOSEPHINE, MARTINI HARRY Kill
LIAM, WILLIAM KILLIAN, JOSEPH
MAUER, CHARLES ME, HENRY AL
TIERS, JULIUS GALL, WILLIAM BOW
LER, killed at the Laclede Gas Works.
ED SELP, 1926 South Eleventh street.
WILLIAM PLATCHED, Ga Rutger
street.
THOMAS ERWIN, GEORGE HURI-
BURT, GEORGE W. KNOEBEL, Seventh
and Rutger streets.
MRS. FRIEsCKE, Seventh and Rutger
streets.
FRIEsCKE, Seventh and Rutger
streets.
JOHN LoBELEIN, Seventh and Rut-
ger streets.
TIM RUX, Seventh and Rutger streets.
ROSE DUGGAN, Soulard Market.
MRS. HELIX. 1901 South Seventh street.
HERMAN MUNARI, Eighteenth street
and Geyer avenue.
CHARLES TANDY, st. Louis Cracker
Factory.
ED FELB, engineer Standard Bagging
Company.
WILLIAM WINCKLER, JOSEPH
MEYER. Jefferson and Park avenues.
HERMAN MUNAIN, 1920 South Eighth
street.
MRS. CHARLOTTE ENDERs, e1o Rut-
ger street.
MAX WEIs, FRED ZIMMERs, Jeffer-
son and Geyer avenues.
SOPHIA DE MARTINI, 4o2 South
Twelfth street
KATIE CLAYPOoL, Ewing and Scott
avenues.
JOSEPH DUNN, patient at City Hos
pital.
Unknown child. Ann and California
avenues.
Child of Andrew J. Leincke, 27O6 Ham
ilton avenue.
Three unknown, at 1888 South Seventh.
MALACHI MCDONALD, 2745 Clark
avenue.
Unknown baby, picked up at Twenty
second and Market streets.
JOHN PANDY, 1928 Mississippi avenue.
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passed him. Dunham did not speak, but
walked with mis- head down as though
thinking deeply. He was well acquainted
with Dunham and thought it strange
that he should pass within ten feet of him
without speaking, and remarked about it
to his companion.
The testimony of the doctors as to the
number and direction of the bullets and
the blows upon the bodies of the dead
completed the inquest.
The verdict was rendered at once, nam
ing Dunham as the murderer of the six
people.
A CALI reporter put the question direct
to Charles Dunhsm, the brother of the
murderer, as to whether or not 1t was true
that he had been engaged to marry Hattie
Wells before she married his brother. For
an answer the young man said:
AZ do not care to deny or affirm any
thing in connection with this terrible af-
fair. There have been a great many
things said. do not wish to reply to
them. This tragedy has been done. 1t
comes directly home to me. l am anxious
that my brother shall be apprehended, as
am certain he is insane"
Charles Dunham is employed in the
store of Miller & Co. as bookkeeper and is
highly thought of. He is evidently very
much wrought up over this affair. 1t is
stated that Mrs. McGlincy has left will.
She has two sisters living in this city. 1t
appears that the property, which is valued
at about $75, 900, belonged to her and was
left to her by her former husband.
The question arises whether after all
the son of Dunham, for whose benefit the
great crime was committed, would come
in for all of the property, and even SO, if
after the debts are paid ne would get
much If he did.
Under instru ctions from the District
Attorneys Office, Constable Ed Haley this
morning swore to a complaint in Justice
Gass' court charging James G. Dunham
with murder.
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leaned over his wife and shocked her into
Mysteries by saying:
"Do you know what / intend to do with
this youngster2 1 intend to take him with
me to Texas pretty soon, where l shall
open whisky shop and gambling den.
mean to teach him, too, in the Catholic
religion"
With agony in her face and in her voice
she turned to the nurse, saying:
What do you think of man who will
say such thing to his wife at such a
timer" and Dunham smiled as though
much pleased at his success.
George Schaible, the man who escaped.
was recalled, and testified that Dunham
had two bicycles and one was broken, and
he had spent some time Monday morning
repairing it.
He did not see Dunham on the farm on
Monday nor on Tuesday, before O'Clock
In the evening. He came home at that
time. He did not notice anything in his
appearance or conduct that was notable at
that time.
F. E. Lovelady testified to having seen
and heard two men going by his house
toward McGiincy's Tuesday evening. One
of them he knew was Dunham. He knew
Durham very well ana always estimated
him as a very cool and calm man.
Robert Hamilton was walking in COM
pany with young lady along the road
IN the Dry Creek bed when Dunham
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She and all the family were strong ad-
herents OF the A. P. A., and Dunham him
self was not a Catholic, but he knew how
to torture. This was the model student
and polite gentleman OF the Santa Clara
College. He was even then and had long
been contemplating the wiping from the
earth all of the McGlincy family.
On Monday Dunham drew out what
coin he had in the San Jose bank. some
thing over $1,000. On Tuesday evening he
hid his BICYCLE in the bushes near the Dry
Creek bed, some few hundred yards from
the house. He loaded two revolvers, SO
and As caliber-he always carried one
He loaded a rifle and these with the ak he
took to the house and that night wallowed
in the blood of six people.
One that he had counted upon got away
and that fact left him unsatisfied. The
orchard and grounds about the house are
marked with the trail of his horse as he
rode back and forth along the fences and
around the house and over in the direction
of the neighbors' houses in his search for
George Schaible, the frightened hired man,
who was hiding under the hay in the loft
OF the barn.
With the place strewn with dead he
could scarcely bring himself to leave the
scene, because there was one survivor that
he felt sure was concealed there. He
wanted them all. At last he turned his
horse into the Los Gatos read. looked back
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confessed the robbery to his wife and was
forgiven.
The couple came TO this city last August
on bicycles, and stated that they had rode
up from Stockton. They obtained apart
ments at the residence of Mrs. z. w.
Rivers, 1127 e street, and eventually Dun
ham obtained the restaurant privilege at
Agricultural Park, which he conducted
during the period of the State Fair. and it
is said displayed a marked business ca
pacity and was extremely prompt in the
payments of all debts contracted,
The married life of the couple was by no
means heightened honeymoon, and it is
claimed that Dunham displayed great bru-
tality toward his wife, who seemingly
worshipped the ground he trod on, and
was always watching for a kindly look or
word from the man she so evidently loved,
yet feared. 1t was the old, old story of a
mans brutality to woman and woman's
humility to brutal man. Their welded
life abounded in quarrels, which on one
occasion at least eliminated in battle,
when it is claimed that Dunham uttered
the most brutal threats against his wife.
She is very quiet woman, who never ut
tered complaint to others OF the treat
ment accorded her by her husband, and
this to certain extent may be accounted
for by the evident fact that she was en-
tirely controlled by her brutal husband.
One morning before arising Mrs. Dunham
took her watch from under her pillow. and
after looking at it replaced it and went to
sleep. Some two hours afterward she rose
and dressed but on looking for her watch
found it had disappeared, as had all the
balance of her jewelry. She complained
to her landlady, and The latter positively
assured her that no one had entered the.
ouse, and suggested that Mrs. Dunham
ask her husband about the disappearance
of the valuables.
The advice was followed, but Mr.. Dun
ham emphatically denied any knowledge
OF the robbery, so Mrs. Dunham reported
her loss to Chief of Police Drew, who in
stituted a search, which 1t is claimed re-
suited in the discovery that Dunham stole
his wife's property and pawned it.
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WAS CALMLY PLANNED.
Madness Did Not Cause Dunfam's
Fearful Crime.

SAN JOSE, CAL, May 2s.-The theory
of madness or sudden impulse must be
dismissed from consideration of the bloody
business at Campbells on Tuesday night.
The developments of to-day. linked with
the facts previously known, leave no doubt
that this unique horror had been worked
out in its terrible detail through days of
dark thinking.
Dunham had determined upon his deed
on Monday morning ard his plans for the
awful execution were no more carefully
laid than were those for his escape. The
lack of motive disappears under the steady
course of investigation, and it becomes
clear that this terrible deed was that of
moody, bitter, mean, self-centered nature
that could find in some slight from his
wife or members of her family reason suf-
icient to him for blotting them all out of
existence.
With proof OF this premeditation GER
tain features of the crime that were lightly
passed over in the first inventory as being
impossible of meaning what they seemed
rise to first importance and lift this crime
far out,of the ordinary in mere blood car
nivals. Thatn that was found on the
table in Mrs. Dunham's room is the chief
of these. At first it looked like a mere
cheap trick of the murderer-a forgery to
give the appearance of suicide to her death,
when, perhaps, it was in his mind only to
kill his wife.
With two loaded revolvers, a rife
and an ak, made ready to the
murderer's hand, that it was his
purpose to do what he did, at least SO far
as the members of the McGlincy family
are concerned, cannot be in doubt.
And when it is learned, as it was to-day
at the inquest, that the most bitter hatred
existed between Dunham and the whole
McGlincy family, taken in connection
with the silent and morose character of
the man, the motive is furnished. The
story, then, that is told by that little note
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that was found on the stand near the muir
dered wife's bed is nothing less than tre-
mendous.
1t is written on the reverse side of
large yellow business card of a wine COM
pany. 1t is in the wife's handwriting, as
testified to by those who knew it. 1t is
written in lead pencil, and then is blurred
as though hand had been drawn across
it in an attempt to erase it.
When James Dunham, the silent, dark,
stern man, entered his wifes room with
his big ak he told his wife that he had
come to kill her.
He had often said he would do so and
she knew from the terrible purpose that
sounded in his low voice and looked out of
his calm eyes that he meant what he said.
He may have placed the gag in her mouth
that was found there after death. So he
may have restrained her from crying out
even at that moment by the mere exercise
of that power which he is known to have
had over her Will.
He told her that if she had any prepara-
tions to make for death to make them and
be quick. She rose up in her bed ana
wrote that line upon the card. He thought
she might have offered prayer instead of
writing note that could never be deliv-
cred and that may explain why a hand
was drawn across, blurring it. Then he
tightened his fingers about her throat and
shook the feeble body so savagely that the
neck was broken.
The body fell back quite still, but he
must make certain. He thrust some cloths
down the throat so that it would be impos-
sible that the breath of life should re-
enter it.
The tragedy of Othello had been re-
enacted. The frightful nights work that
he had laid to his hand had been entered
upon. The light had been put out. But
in the modern edition this was a mere be-
ginning. Five others were to follow this
spirit into the unknown country in quick
succession. There would be whole fam
lily of them together.
The lights that have been turned upon
the character of James Dunham since that
Tuesday night gave the background to
this picture that is necessary to it to make
it understood. AS at first presented it
seemed the CHASTITY work of maniac. Its
ruthless and unnecessary slaughter could
not be fitted to any other reasoning. Now,
however, we have q man with a pasta
man who had been married twice, who had
deserted two wives scarcely before the hon.
eymoon in each case was over, a man who
had turned his hand at many unurofitless
trades, who has been a cowboy in Texas
and is as expert with the revolver as he is
an experienced and hardy horseman. He
had travelled the roads from Oregon to
San Diego and knows them perfectly. He
where lived his brother and sister but lit
tie. His mother and father having died
he returns and secures his share of mod
crate fortune.
His brother Charles, several years
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younger than himself, is engaged to marry
the daughter of Colonel r. P. McGlincy, a
prominent citizen, rancher, orchardist
and politician. Dunham seeks and Sc
cures employment from McGlincy and,
employing his opportunity, lays siege to
the heart of his brothers fiancee and wins
her. Then for the first time he takes on
the role of gentleman.
AT 80 years of age he enters Santa Clara
College to take the full four years clas-
sical course with the purpose of afterward
studying law. He is reported as a model
student, polite, punctual and hard work
ing in class where the pupils were half
his age. Rev. Father McKenna saws OF
him.:
He was in degree irreproachable. He
was always very polite, and would bow to
those with whom he was acquainted, but
he very seldom showed disposition to
talk to any one, and he seemed to be a
very hard person to become very well ac-
quainted with. He was, 1 might say, a
silent man. He rarely, if ever, smiled, and
bad what might be called far-away ex-
preston"
Just so he was to all others with whom
he had and proposed to have no close
relationship. At home the hard, ugly side
of his character had long been revealed to
his young wife. He was more than mean
to her. Her jewelry was stolen while they
lived in Sacramento and she suspected
him as being the thief. He tainted her
in those ways that are most aggravating-
charged her parents with the commission
of disgraceful crimes and brought about
an open warfare with ell others of her
family.
When she was sick lie entirely neglected
her. Did she want any comfort such as
he might secure her he told her not to
bother him, but to get what she wanted
from her parents: and they had been
married but little more than year. The
love letters written to her by his brother
were still among her treasures. Four days
after his baby was born he lifted the little
body up in his hands and leaning over his
wife's sick bed he said
"Do you know what intend to do with
this? am going to Texas pretty soon to
open a saloon and gambling house; am
going to take this boy with me, and [ am
going to teach him to be Catholic, too"
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once more upon the scene OF the slaugh-
ter and George Schaible saw him ride
away over the moonlit road toward San
| Jose and felt that he was safe.
Charley Sterrett met him where the
road rises out of Dry Greek, and the un-
sated monster stopped him, saying:
"Have you seen George? ?"
The baby boy, the only survivor of this
sweep of death, is being cared for by Mrs.
Black, neighbor of the desolated place.
The place is visited by great numbers of
people, who come and go in constant pro-
cession over the county roads from all di-
rections.
in the meantime the guessing goes on as
to the prospects of the murderer getting
safely away.
The bodies of the victims, all save Min
ME Schessler, still lie in the house, hav-
ing been embalmed. The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon. and it will, no
doubt, call out great portion of the popu-
lation of the Campbell district.
The inquest was resumed in the house
OF the dead this morning. The most i'm
portant witness was Mrs. H. NJ. Parker,
who was the nurse at the house at the
time the Dunham baby was born.
Sne was there fOr thirteen days and saw
enough of Dunham's ill-treatment of his
wife to shock her. She said that Mrs.
Dunham told her of her loss of her jewelry
and how she had every reason to believe
that her husband stole ii. One day Dun
ham was taunting his wife about her
father, old man Wells, telling her he knew
him to be sheepthief.
This so angered the wife that she then
and there charged him with having stolen
her watch. He only laughed at her. The
sick wife was in great need OF piece of
mosquito netting, and she (the nurse)
begged him to get 1t for her. He made no
reply, but the next day came home with
out 1t. She again reminded him, and he
again paid no attention whatever. When
the wife herself asked Dunham to do
anything for her he replied by telling her
to have her father wait upon her, as he
would not.
Dunham. said the witness, seemed to
take some interest in the baby-even
showed some affection for it-and would
lie on the bed and watch it for long
periods. Several times when the nurse
offered it to him Dunham would take it
in his hands and hold it. 1t was upon
one OF these occasions that Dunham
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sonably be expected to be housed in San
Jose Jail before nightfaIl.
ONE VICTIM BURIED.
Impressive Funeral Services Over
Miss SctesS!er's Remains.

SAN JOSE, CAL, May 2S.-The funeral
OF Miss Minnie Schessler. one of the VIC
TINS or Dunham, took place this after
noon. Service was held in the First
Christian Church, and Rev. B. B. Burton,
pastor, made a most affecting address.
"Rock of Ages was then sung, and after a
few texts of Scripture had been read the
coffin was taken back to the hearse. The
coffin was covered with wreaths of lilies
and other white flowers. At the Oak Hill
Cemetery the Daughters of Rebekah held
the final services over the grave.
The chief mourners were the parents,
DR.. and Mrs. Schessler. Walter Schessler
and Mrs. Ada Reen. a sister of the de-
ceased. besides many other relatives and
friends were present at the funeral, which
was largely attended.
The honorary pall-bearers were Misses
Mabel Campbell, Maud Berwick, Carrie
Phau, Maud bunker, May Holland and
Messrs. Harland, Berwick, Eley, Wallace.
Craycroff, Smith.
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TOPPY TOP COATS
$40 to S35

Swell garments, original ideas, the latest
weaves fresh from the looms of both hemi-
spheres.
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! HOMES. Etna IRON Works.

JONES, Etna Iron Works.
EMMA CHENEY and ISABELLA
HORNE, 1892 Mississippi avenue.
WILLIAM OTTENAD. 17OO South
Broadway.
WALLACE T. BUTLER (colored), s25
South Jefferson avenue.
ROBERT MILLER, Blair and Benton
streets.
sILAs JONES. Twenty-irst and Gra-
tiot.
LOUIS BOECKMAN, 614 Rutger.
MRS. LOUIS BOECKMAN, 614 Rutger.
GUSTAVE FULMER, GA Rutger.
JAMES KILLIAN, GA Rutger.
MRS. CLAYPOOL and child, S14 South
Jefferson avenne.
JOSEPH MILLER, Eighteenth and
Choteau avenue.
g. W. KNABEL, 1908 South Seventh.
GEORGE HUBERT, Snowman of Min
neapolis, at Soulard Market
ANNIE DUGGAN, Eighth and Marion.
MRS. MATILDA RUX, 716 Barry.
TINA RUX, 716 Barry.
JOHN LOHING, ZIG Barry.
MRS. CLARA FRIESKE, 1886 South
Seventh.
EDNA FRIESKE, 1885 South Seventh.
MIKE Wise. killed at gas works.
WILLIAM PLACHEK, GA Rutger.
GIBBONS, girl, 2725 St. Vincent ave-
nue.
SYLVESTER BENE, 141S Ohio avenue.
- GALLAGHER, MRS. WOODRUFF,
California and Ann avenues.
TAYLOR HALLOUN, 1401 Missouri
avenue.
THOMAS IRWIN. 2213 Choteau avenue.
JAMES DREUN, City Hospital
CHARLES ARCHAMBAULT, City
Hospital.
FRANCESCA RODRIGUEZ, City Hos
pital.
LEWIS F. SIMMS, 1907 Park avenue.
MRS. BALLMAN, 17O1 Park avenue.
MRS. SPILLMAN, 2717 Park avenue.
MRS. CRUMP, 2709 Park avenue.
CHARLES SCHWEITSMAN, 2650 st.
Vincent avenue.
In addition to these dead there are at the
Morgue and unidentified the bodies of sew
enteen men and five women. The list of
unidentified is being added to hourly. It
is reported that twenty-nine employees of
the Liggett & Meyers tobacco factory are
in the ruins of the building.
Twenty-Five employees of the st. Louis
Wooden Gutter Company are missing and
are thought to have been killed when the
building fell and buried them.
The dead identified in East st. Louis are:
CHARLES WAIT, 519 CoIlinsviIle ave-
nue..
WILLIAM sURBER, MRS. STOCK, J.
A. PORTER, Buff1in, Ill.
JOHN REAMS.
MRS. PATRICK BEAN. MISS BEAN,
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GAVE up THE SEARCH.
Heavy Fog Makes 1t Impossible to
Follow q Trail.

SAN JOSE, CAL, May % e A. MA
telephone communication from Smiths
Hotel reports that the posse has returned
and gwen over the search for tonight.
Sheriff Lyndon is very confident that he
will effect a capture by o'clock this
morning, as every trail will be guarded
and patrolled and the people at Mount
Hamilton are already on the alert.
The fog is very heavy on the mountain
and it was impossible to do anything
further tonight. At daylight, however,
the posse will be diyided up to cover the
South Springs road and San Isabel pass
and two other roads leading up the
mountain.
An examination of the wire fences shows
that the murderer has not broken through
there, and is, therefore, still in the road or
dependent upon it between Smiths and
the observatory.
The Sheriff says that if he abandons his
horse and takes to the woods he will have
still less chance of escape, as the hounds
will be placed upon his track with the
start early tomorrow morning. Capture,
he says, is certain in any case.
The trails available for horses will be
so guarded that he will be caught if he
Keeps to them, If he abandons the horse
and tries his luck afoot his progresswill be
SO slow that he must be quickly overtaken.
Several persons reported as travelling the
trail and supposed to be the murderer
were run down tonight, only to discover
that they were not the fugitive.
Every member of the party is eager for
daylight to resume pursuit, which has be-
come exceedingly exciting as the nearness
to their game is made evident. Dunham,
II he does not take his own life. may rea-
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DUNtiAM'S BAD RECORD.
Brutality aud Theft Were Among
His Crimes.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, May 2s.-James
B. Dunham, the San Jose murderer, was
at one time resident of this city, and is
well known to the police force, as at one
time they were called upon to solve a
mysterious robbery case in which his wife
was the sufferer, she losing all her jewelry,
and when the police finished their investi-
CATION it is said that there was proof con-
elusive that James B. Dunham was the
robber, and it is stated that eventually he
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TODAY
WORDS OF WISDOM
TO THE WISE

When the real thing is SO cheap where is the
philosophy of buying the imitation? There is
more danger OF paying too little than there is in
paying too much for cothes-especiaIIy Iust
now when the market is being flooded with low
grade, inferior clothing STEI N-BLO c
CLOTHES HAVE A PEDIGREE-THE BEST.
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and disheartened. He says he carried no
guns in sight: News from the vicinity of
Smiths is being anxiously awaited at
eyery minute. ss sffe