| Show fis eis fit 1 1 1 0 N the bender Mur murders derse buu tuu inn ilo iio slip crom themselves aune acne P THE une 1 ni inn DU DEEDS EDS iT orne OrLE rati rafi PATI 0 SONS FOR volt y 41 I 1 listened last evening to an anin in resting te conversation between col coi CoLi York mork anda and a number of citizens of upon the all absorbing absorbing ab 9 topic tople tha the bender murders one mall man i 1 expressed himself surprised that dr di york who was wag a shrewd kanand man and used to abe the ways of the world would have been so incautious ai a to enter that hutnan human char nel nei gelhouse nemi neUi house ouse the tho bad oad character of the family their disreputable mode of living by clairvoyance and spiritualism and the shott holes hoies bored through their walls walis should llave have admonished any mail man of erdl nary prudenco prudence that sucha place was da dangerous n 0 o s tol to enter and tiie the doctor knowing 7 no I 1 g these facts should have been the last man to place himself in their powers the colonel remarked that it was wag an aas easy matter to be wise after fter the truths nad pad been heen shown when in search of his brother he said he visited the bandec house with a friend prepared to note any he knew the family bore a bad character he addressed dres sod sed numerous questions to th them thern he scrutinized the hovel vigilantly and after this search he left lefts with the impression on his mind that these people vero were vere ignorant antof of his brothers murder murden they assumed an ari air of stolidity and dumbness which diverted all sus and he set them down as an ignorant german family fossil witchcraft and superstition too apo besotted to carry out an act idor ivor treachery and rind lawless violence did you sou not seem seer seethe the shot holes hoies 11 one of the company inquired eisaw 11 saw one bullet aigle hole hoie the colonel answered and the old man wald mald said sald ald aid that had been there when ho lie moved into the house 11 he further told of the second search that lle lie made with seventy nive five mon men along the bender house was again visited and further questions put to the tho i occupants other hous weno were visited and then the search canvassed suspicion fell upon harness now jn in arrest but not one of ail all the tho party entertained any auy idea that the benders were a party patty to the mur dersy demir 0 10 o va inq person thought the county shown neglect in prosecuting inquiries while disappearances pea pe ranes arances were of suell such frequent occurrence currence gurren pe i The apathy of the whole community avas a matter of standing wonder to the colonel look at 11 said he who was basof of berred fer redan an army array of knives and pistols for supper and whose life was to the result of spiritual incantations she fled to a neighbor ne forse forpE fon for pheater ph elter eiter but no complaint was mamby this this man of the suspicious practices ot sofo the family some time last winter three travelers traveled s droye up and ordered dinner ofner ang to pay half a dollar each for oon fora oora a good square meal they had llad b brt but to boofter theland the mand they get enough to earthey entley eat They demurred to paying the tho full amount and quick as a flash the old oid man caught one of them around the pech fieck peck and drawing a long knife was about to plunge it in his breast breasts hii his arm was arrested and a covol revolver roy rey olver ver pointed at his head father and son then rushed into the aliouse louse and reappearing with navy revolvers threatened to kill the whole party these men drove oft pursued colonel york but they made no complaint of the murderous attack made upon them the question was asked checolo the ohe colonel iw bether hether ho believed me the murders were commit committed dor jor money or on account of rates kates diabolism or superstition i colonel tork york thought that robbery was the object of the murders katekas Kat ewas avaricious and would g go 0 to any lengths to get money that she prompted the murders there was no doubt when a stranger entered the spirits would tell whether money w as in his possession or not and on a sign from flom her preparations would bo be made to dispose of thevis the visitors itom but her power of divination vi Ti nation frequently failed lier her as several of the victims are known to have been almost penniless long lfong chot chok the iowa farmer had not hot over 20 the trib illinois soldier mckinzie had haj had borrowed a dollar to pay ills his way to parsons brown of cedar vale yale had llad not nott over 00 30 and dr york not over half that sum AB As a source of hir hip income ome i thesel murders were u Who tiler flier they shared in tho the proceed edt edi joithe oft ott the tha other property pro porty ports was not known krown A great diversity of opinion prevails whether the benders were acting in concert with a gang or who tiler ther they prosecuted business bushless on their own hook jones whose body was found in drum creek is supposed to have had haet in ills his possession the battered skull and severed windpipe point poin tto to this fam faro ily as ag his but butchers cherp but it is sup pup posed that brown wa biot immola emmola ted these shambles ile ho started to go to osage missouri riding one i horse and leading leaping a second ile he was wassen seen on j a wagon accompanied by two jwo men and 1 it is supposed that he was wag murdered by these persons if thus he lit ac came to his ills end pud they must have been confederates of the Benders ras fas his body wasi was fo found und in i the tho i orchard by the side aide of mcgrotty A painful circumstance attending this murder is that on his wife setting out in search march of of her husti husband and be her ber r horse fell sick and she stayed three days at benders lying within one hundred yards of her nus hus husbands banals mutilated body I 1 learn that this family had tried their hand at the business of murder before their appearance here liere while living in illinois they had A a difficulty with a neighbor andset andret and settled the dispute by leaving him lifeless upon the ground as they supposed dead they fled to es cape justice and leave again dawned won upon the horizon in this latitude correspondence of jea lea leaven van worth commercial |
