The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-05-04
KILLED A WILD man.
HE rs BELIEVED TO BE JAS.
DUNHAM, MURDERER OF
THE McGLINCY FAMILY.
Reward of $1,000 Was Hanging
Over His Head, Dead or Alive
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San Jose, CAL, April 29.-News
has been received here lat, if prov
ed true, will forever set at rest the
fate of James Dunham, the sextu-
pie murderer, whose destruction of
the McGlincy family nearly a dec
ade ago shocked the whole of A.
merica.
A telegram received here last
night SAYS that a wild man who for
years has lived in lower California,
when approached by hunters in the
mountains put up such a fight that
the men were compelled to kill
him in self defense An examina-
tion of the body leads to the belief
that the wild man was none other
than Dunham, over whose head
there still hangs reward of SILL
600 dead or alive.
The Identification will at this
late date bs difficult, as it would
hinge largely ou his teeth, where
dental work of peculiar construc-
ton was done, and the description
of which was used as one of the tea-
lures when the chase for his cap.
ture was warm.
The crimes of Dunham was COM
mitted so long ago that greater
portion of newspaper.readers have
forgotten them. Dunham, who was of
respectable parents, we'll liked, and
a young man Of fairly good habits,
became enraged at his wife's rela-
tives. Either through insanity or a
deliberate desire to kill, he decided
to annhilate the entire family after
having had slight quarrel with
bis wife.
Arming himself with revolver
of large calibre, he went to the
home of Colonel McGlincy, his
/ wife's farher, where he slew his wife
as she lay in bed beside their infant
son. He threw a pillow over the
child's head with the evident inten.
ton of smotheringit to death. Pick.
ing up an ak from a woodshed he
killed Mrs. McGlincy and aservant
| girl.
McGlincy was brutally shot down
after being wounded and seeking
refuge in an outbuilding, from the
inside of which he vainly pleaded
with Durham to spare his life. Nc.
Glincy's stepson, Charles Wells, ap.
peared, and he too fell dead beneath
Durham urerring aim. A hired
man was shot through the door of a
stable, where he was concealed, and
the other hired man was pursued by
1 Durham, but succeeded in hiding
himself beneath the hay in mang.
er. Dunbam then sprang upon a
horse and fled down the road in pur.
suit of a passerby, whom he evi.
IDENTIFY thought was the hired man
From behind fence, where he
lay covering in the moonlight, % in 8
perfect paralysis of fear, a neigh.
boring youth, who had been attract
ed by the sounds of the shooting
overheard the pleadings of the agec
Colonel McGlincy, the caiolery and
hual threats of his merciless slayer
ard witnessed the tragedies. H
gave speedy alarm.
The citizens of San Jose subscrib
ed to and augmented the reward of
fered by the state until the tota
footed 1000. More than thous
and men participated in the MAI
hunt, but Dunham was never over
taken. Some years ago the repor
came from lower California tha
Durham had been seen near I'll;
Juana, but officers who hastenet
there were unable to locate him ant
the search was finally abandoned
1t is doubtful if the full amount o
the reward, or even the greater por
ton OF it, could now be collected, a
many of the heaviest subscriber
are dead, others have suffered fnan
cial Losses and still others hav
moved to other and unknown pla
ces.
Dunham's sister who is an emf
nently respectable woman, still re
sides near here, but to escape the 0
dium of the name of Durham peti
toned and was granted by the stat
Legislature another, under whicl
she is now known.
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