The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-06-03
Grill Of New York Identified by
Many as Dunham.
LATTER TOOK SEVERAL LIVES.
Grill Declared Il Was a Case Of Mistaken
ntliy-Prwsd TO Laws Satisfaction
Hs Is Tho Wrong Man.

Rome, y. Y, June 3.-One of the most
remarkable cases of mistaken identity on
record is that of James c. Durham and
Charles +. Grill OF which the officers OF
the law OF California. Iowa. Kansas and
New York have been al work.
In spite OF resemblance so close as 10
seem absolute, the man under suspicion
has been released.
James c. Durham is a murderer for
whom a reward OF $4,000 has been offered.
On the night OF May 27, 1896. he MUIR
dered his wife. Hattie Durham; Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert T. McGlinsy, his wife's par
ents: Minnie Schlessler. the servant; Rob-
ert Briscoe. an employe, and James Wells.
a son OF Mrs. McGlincy. The murders
were committed OF the McGlincy ranch
at Campbell, near San Jose. Cal.
Dunham took 10 the hills on horse.
and. although pursuers were on his trail
within two hours, and have been search
Ing for him ever since. no trace OF him
has been discovered. unless the man now
i'm custody. who is identified as Durham
by many OF his acquaintances and who
declares that he is some one else and has
proved IL, is found at last to he the muir
derer.
CAPTURE OF GRILL
Six weeks ago Sheriff Lansford.. Of San
Jose. received word from J. c. Greiner. of
Burlington, Iowa. that he had found Dun
ham, who was then near Wichita, Kan.
Langford and Greiner went TO Wichita
and took the man that looked like Dun
ham into custody.
The news OF the capture spread and
hundreds fiocked into San Jose jail when
the prisoner was brought there on the
evening of April 30. Ever since then the
arrested man has been under inspection.
Men and woman who had known Dun
ham at school and associated with him
for years have identified the prisoner as
The same man The sheriff and his dspU-
ties who have followed the case for
years are positive that they have Dun
ham.
declres in Charles F. Grill: he was born
in Rome. y. Y. on May 2l, 1850; was ed
ucated at Fally seminary, Fulton. n. Y,
with Will his alie. David r.. Grill at Flat
station, Ill. He gives detailed story OF
his life. covering every year with names,
dates and places. up TO the present
HIS STORY BORN OUT.
His story has been corroborated in every
point as far as investigation has gone.
Inquiry at his home in this county shows
that a Grill family formerly lived In the
town OF Verona. one of whom was Charles
Grill. who. the old residents say, would
be about forty years old now
Theodore l.. Grill, who keeps the motel
at Verena, Oneida county, says that
Charles f. Grill Is his cousin being a son
of Daniel Grill. and that the account he
gives OF himself IL true up 10 the time his
Oneida county relatives last heard from
him. He went the hotel keeper says, 10
Flat Station to live with his uncle, David
r. Grill. and he can get plenty OF identif-
cation.
The records OF Fally seminary show
that Charles Y. Grill was enrolled there
from Rome, y. Y, a student In 1870
and part Of 1876 He was the son of Dan
iel Grill and was then seventeen years old.
Grill gives an explicit account OF his
movements I'm 1895, the year OF the Dun
ham murders. describing his life minutely
in Pueblo. where he was at that time G.
r. Schumate. a business man, OF San
Jose was a grocer in Pueblo, Col, i'm 1896,
and to test Crirs knowledge he called at
the iail and questioned him. The inter-
view showed that Grill knew all about
Pueblo. the events Of 1896 there, and many
residents of the place.