Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-09-07
RANGERS MAKE
 AN IMPORTANT Capture Near the Mex
 ican Boundary. Durham, the Notorious California Murderer, Arrested Eluded
 Officers Eight Years.

one of the bloodiest crimes of the last century, involving the murder of his wife and all the members of her family, has been arrested after a chase of eight years. The capture was made by the Arizona rangers on Tuesday evening, August 30., and was the most important work ever accom- plished by this organization, which has done some very effective work. The story of the capture was told in the Phoenix Republican last week as follows:
 'On Tuesday evening Lieutenant Brooks, of the Arizona rangers with two rangers went to silica mine ir the mountains south of Bisbee to ar rest Charles Douglas on information from the foreman and superintendent of the mine and from description of the fugitive in their possession.
 Douglas had evidently lost his gun as his pockets were full of A cart ridges and he had been trying for sev eral days to borrow a gun. The two officers threw down on him and the other attempted to handcuff him. He had handle sawed from a shovel and made a desperate fight almost break ing the arm of one ranger. Lieuten- ant Brooks fired at his right arm and hit him in the breast but it did not stop him. Ranger Stanford fired at his head creasing him. He was stunned, secured and taken to Naco. His wounds were not serious.
 During the night he called for the foreman and in the presence of officers confessed that he was Dunham and gave an account of the murder of his family near San Jose, Cal. He says that since then he has served three years in Yuma and received a sentence of six years in Santa Fe, but escaped from a tie camp after six months. He begged the rangers to return him to New Mexico and not to California.
 He has been identified by two San Jose men and he fits the description of Dunham. He has tried to commit suicide twice since his capture. He is closely guarded pending further identification and the action of the California officials.
 The crime for which Dunham has been sought was the murder of his wife, her mother, her ste ofather, Col. R. P. McGlincy, her brother, James K. Wells, servant girl, Minnie Shes sler, and a farm hand, Robert Frisco. The murder took place on the night of May 26, 1896, at the farm house of Col. McGlincy, between San Jose and MayfieId, and near the latter place, in Santa Clara county, Cal.
 The slaughter was carefully planned. When it was begun there was nobody at home but the three women. Dun- ham went to his wife in the night and having told her that he was going to kill her, gave her chance to write a message to those who she was led to believe would be spared. Then he strangled her to death. The second victim was the girl, Minnie Shessler, whose skull was cleft with an ax. The fate of Mrs. McGlincy was the same.
 Then the murderer sat in the bloody house ard awaited the return of the men. Col. McGlincy came first. As he opened the door he was met by bullet. He turned to run and his stepson, Wells, rushed to his assist ance. Wells was shot through the heart and the murderer, leaping over his body, pursued his aged victim, who had succeeded in reaching a cabin occupied by Frisco. There Dunham put the old man out of his misery and also killed Frisco. There were only two persons left alive on the ranch. One was the murderer and the other his two year old baby boy.
 There was no witness of the tragedy and the foregoing somewhat circum- stantial story of it is made up from the circumstances which the first hor- rified nve,tigators of the tragedy dis covered.
 The motive was not plain. It was not known that Dunham had had any trouble with his wife or her relatives and it was assumed that he had in tended to kill them all, leaving his boy the sole heir of the estate of Col. | 
 Pursuit was begun at once. It was only known that the murderer had |