Show THE BBUDBU family excitement is i tr Jt wbiteheat againiu Kansas and e16h J t willife JO remembered 4 that about six years ago a family by this name four persons in all old Bender his uife eon John and daughter Ktt2 lived on a ranch below Independence in southeastern ICsiiies who were discovered to have committed numerous and colJbloodEd murders of travelers stopping at ibo ranch At the time of the discovery ten or twelve bodies were found I buried on the premises anti at tho first proof of their atrocities corning f 1 fto r light they left The whole country was aroused at the recital ot their mutderg they were searched furS fur-S everywhere every possible clue was followed as long as the gbort of a chance of capture remained parties weresarrested in every direction but aa when it omd to identification they e = rH tlo d 5large rewards were ofieretTand are still standing but no members of i the Bender family were ever heard of until within the last few days Our citizens will recall the time when nn old man alleged to be Bender was placed in the jail in thi cityemd visited by hundreds of persons his face was pronounced the most villainous J and hardened ever y seen and there could be no qaeetion wto his Tafentity only one rtOn in the world couKUloek us he did end S that person was od Bender But itS it-S S was noi Bender and tho excitement S died out here At intervals during S the six years since that time oher arrests hove been made with the same result Some days ago however an f old man antI woman were arrested inS in-S f Nebraska and confessions and de 4 velopmenta since that time give every S I reason to believe the heads of theo the-o orious Bender family have ben S captured A dispatch received on S S Monday tells of the identification by a Kansas neighbor the man who is S none other than the old Bonder himself him-self The woman has made a full I I confession to save her own life and S I S says that the wifoof Bander died in 4 1876 She aho glees information as to 1 the whereabouts ot Kate and John Bender jr and it is probabe they S r will all ba in jail in1 a short timeS time-S Justice ia often a long time gi Intgelting around bat it cornea at S Jest I |