Show MURDER ASA AS A TRADE kansas kans has a keval for the bender bamut bamily not since the horrible crimes of the bender family were revealed has southeastern kansas been so excited and s bent upon vengeance until the bloody bloods butcheries but cheries committed by the Staf fiebach family at galena wee we e brought to light by the recent confession of cora staf fieback and george S St affleback on the witness stand at columbus when upon trial for the murder of frank galbreath whose body was found floating an fn in an old abandoned mining shaft nea beai r the Staff St affleback lebark home last july cora St affleback weakened and told all she knew about the murder of Galb galbreath Galbre reat L and others whom the family had killed george St affleback coras husband without knowing what his wife had revealed made a similar confession they said that galbreath who had been murdered and robbed by the stat staf cleback boys and their mother was not I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t I 1 ir I 1 Q I 1 1 11 4 i 1 I 1 t I 1 t I 1 i I 1 1 GEORGE AFFLEBACK ST the only person they had murdered bur bu that an italian peddler whose biame name th they ey did not know had been killed and robbed about two years ago and his body thrown in an old abandoned mining shaft about forty yards from tho the affleback St house at that time M mrs r charles wilson mother of the staf cleback boys kept a questionable resort in the four room log cabin where these crimes were committed two girls whose names george could not give were living there at the time and saw the peddler murdered they were threatened with dire vengeance it if they should ever reveal what they saw A few nights later one 0 the women quarreled with mike stat staf cleback and threatened to leave the house fearing she would betray hirr he seized her by the throat and choked her to death in the presence of ed staf f cleback and the other woman the latter attempted to save the girl from mikes murderous clutches when EC crushed her skull with a six ohof te the dead bodies were then wrapped ir in a sheet and put under the bed arnt anti i late at night when they were thrown into the same shaft where the peddlers body had been dumped then a it int of loose earth and rocks were thrown into the shaft to keep them from comay to the surface as Gal breaths body had done cora Staf St affleback fieback was taker taken 1 tc galena and pointed out the shaft ahern the bodies were thrown A steam elmr was put to work and the water gunned punned ed out of 0 the shafts near nea the house botlee from one of the shafts a pair of mens drawers with particles of rotting human flesh adhering to them were fished and a piece of a womans comans waist was also found there |