Show LATEST TELEGRAMS THE BENDER BUTCHERS The Excitement Rising Again And Now Comes the Denial Tbat it IK Old Bonder Omaha STbill evening quite a sensation was created hore by the arrest of a party supposed to be John Bender jr and family They had a grey bone and bay mule covered wagon were man and wife and three children were sunburned and dark as gypsies Upon investigation however how-ever they gave a good account of themselves They said they came from Johnson City Kansas last year crossed the Missouri River at Omaha and went to Minnesota and recently returned via Sioux Oity and Nebraska City and were now en route to Illinois They and their outfit in many respects answered the description of young Benderd party and outfit They were discharged and soon departed W H Riley of this city is positive tbat he saw the Bender party between Crescent and Council Bluffs last even ing ai he was oa the way home to this city He informed Sheriff Guy and tcday Riley left for Crescent again to make a search It is generally thought that the young Benderr are now in Western Iowa within a radios of forty or fifty miles of Council Blufb A letter was received here today I that would seem to lead to the conclusion I con-clusion that old Benaer and wife bad t no one with them and that their name ia McGregor The letter states I that after all old Bander has not men I captured but that The prisoners I story that he happened to be sick at Benders while the murders were I l going on may be true The letter ii as follows CLJLRKBYTLLE NIB Aug 3d Tha old couple arrested at Fremont supposed to be the Bender butcherers of Kansas passed here on the 12th of July on foot going east I did not sea ° any otHera with them The same couple passed up the west through here < on foot in MayLS79 They stopped at my house over night ari Baid they were going up fo northwest Nebraska to take up land claims They aid their name was McGregor Yours etc 0 J 8 DUNHAM It will be bone in mind that the old man has all along maintained that his name is McGregor Nevertheless Never-theless he has contradicted himself in many ways and today the belief 13 stronger than ever that he in the original old Bender He and the old woman will be given the most rigid examination They are to have their picture3 taken 0 |