Show the bender family t t 1 1 ta 1 PC n dence tribune of 1 may las ras yay gives a long and interesting account of the horrible discoveries madeam made at the bendel bendey farm kansas from which we cull the following tho the fag fai family nily were germans kept a few groceries for sa leand as it was about five hours drive from tile the mission scores of persons stopped there to feed and get got their dinners or lunch they were of the lowest class the old man and woman spoke broken english E katle katie atle atie bender was a spiritualist claiming unlimited power over disease that the devil would grant her money ro power or anything she desired her er hair was coarse and yellowed yellow seilo wand nd herbye her eye most vicious her manner indicated a fiendish character and she is known to have haj had had complete control over tile the whole family the house hous ewas was a frame structure 16 x 24 feet facing the north without lath or erand divi divided ed by studding into two rooms in the front room to the right was a counter to the left was a corn com pile persons Per sitting down necessarily ily lly occia occupied pled pied the center of the room or leaned back towar towards dsa a curtain which hung against the studding the q pening opening in the curtain into the back baek room was to the left in the back roani room near the door was the stove and to the right was the bed and between the bed and the stove was a trap do orand below was an irregular hole in the ground about five feet in diameter and about abou tako tAke tho the same depth with a passage oua oia under the southeast south east corner of the house in which were a few fow fe w loose stone steps to the tho south of the house about a hundred yards is a patch of about three fourths of an acre plowed for a garden in which are several rows of apple trees it is supposed that when they decided to kill a person aberson they thes would give hima him a seat where he would naturally lean back against the curtain there a person concealed could with the large hammer deal a fatal blow upon the cerebellum when other members with the other lim hammers mers could finish up the job it t I 1 is supposed that the next step was to cut their victims throat over the trap door and tumble him down into the hole and at night to strip and bury him in the garden the graves were very narrow about four feet deep and were dug each near an apple tree as if to mark them the soil and the subsoil had been kept separate and the surplus carried away early this spring the ground had been plowed all of the bodies had been hepting of shirts all of their throats cut and skulls bro broken kerl keil last kwintera a lady stopped there to pass the night and being tired pulled oss off her shoes and lay down upon the bed while Ben benders derIs wife got supper soon supper was announced noun ced and the lady looked on the table and saw there nothing except several p pistols pistols and three or four large knives one of these the she bhe devil davil bender was feeling on the edge and casting side glances glance at the lady on the tho bed when shean she announced supper ready they then thed told her that they were going to call up the ulie spirits who would tell them if she should be killed or not The ethe table tabio tipped and they said they should have to kill her the lady maintained her self con cou control troland and stepped out of the th e house and anid hurried off fo to a neighbors where she remained all night bul bui but observed the benders looking from the door as if ifa awaiting walting herre tum urn next morning the neighbor went over and got the ladys shoes and shawl and they said she had bad bewitched rates kates coffee and denied the knife and pistol story this was told in independence last winter but was considered too improbable a story to be believed A newspaper entitled the the american has been established in liverpool A diplomatist who gives great dinners at paris varis it is said always surrounds each guest at tile tiie the tho place where he sits bits at the table with flowers that belong to the country of which he is a native sir mr xa larsh h Aill ipg a country magistrate and eighty two years old oid plunged into the hea bea buttor at tor quay england to rescue a child from drowning dr 0 he became exhausted and himself and the child were rescue dby a younger man |