The Wallowa Sun Recorder Newspaper, Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon, dated February 17, 1911.
Double Murder and Suicide
Shooting Follows Quarrel; Child Only One Allowed to Survive
WINDER KILLS SELF BY SIDE OF WIFE
The Excited Murderer Thinks of His Little Child Before Taking His Own Life
There was a wholesale murder and suicide six miles east of Joseph last Thursday.
H.R. Haisten the licensed embalmer of Wallowa was called in to take charge of the bodies and gives us the following account of the sad affair as he found it when he arrived which is on the same lines as the coroner's jury found a verdict: It appears that Winder and his wife were not on the best of terms, that she had been sick for some time and that he, Winder, did not want his wife to take medicine, Winder came into the bed room and shot his wife from over the head of the bed, the ball entering the top of her head, then another shot in her forehead. At this time it is supposed that Mrs. Winder's sister, Mrs. Rinehart came on the scene and he turned the 38 revolver on her, shooting her in the mouth, and killing her instantly. Then Winder's picked up his seven months old child which was on the bed by the side of its dead mother and carried it to their closest neighbor, Mr. Richards and told them what he had done and asked them to care for the little one till his people came to take care of it; that he too would shortly join the dead. He returned home and climbing over the dead body of his wife lay down beside her shot her again in the temple, then turned the gun on his own brains and ending his misguided life.
Mr. Rinehart had left early in the morning for a load of wood and knew noting of the terrible tragedy till a messenger was dispatched for him.
Winder was about 31, his wife about 24 and Mrs. Rinehart about 33 years old. Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart were childless.
The maiden name of the murdered women was Dunlop and they were well and favorably known in this section of the country.
Winder came to this section of the country from Dayton, Wash., last fall to work for his brother-in-law, Mr. Rinehart who owns a large ranch where the tragedy accurred.