The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 22, 1886, Page 2

ei SL ah LOSS SALE RE ABA HOW THE BENDERS Dl!) 2 A Traveler, Revives Memories of an Old Herror. How a Family of Inhuman Prates Mei Their Death at the Hands of Incensed Furious Farmers— Kate Bender's Fi -eso- — Osage Misson, Kan., Dec. 7—- What has become of the Benders, | the Montgomery county tamily ot murderers? has often been asked, and all the atten:pts to answer it hive go far been unsuccesstul. Ariests have been made in nearly every state in the union, and every time an in vestigation proved that the officers of the law were on the wrong scenl. Ic has got so now that it 1s the com mon joke in this section of the stae to announce the taking ot that notorious tamily. their capture was given beliet that they were summarily dealt with had an opportunity to escape trom the immediate vicinity of their crimes has gradually come to be accepted. In view ot this fact the following incident related tw your tive by a prominent attorney of this Place may be ot interest A TRAVELER'S STORY That genticman was engaged in some important legal business in Montgomery county. to visit Independence, and finding that he could reach there and accom- plish bis purpose to better advantage of some Long ago up, aud the caught and betore they representa- Having cause by gomg across the country in a carriage, Other gentieman, started that way. it so happeaed that they passed within a short distance of the Bender place, and his companion was point ing out the location where the he, accompanied by aa- and explaining house stood and the graveyard was lodated in which the inhuman brutes buried their victims. He had been talking tor some time and seemed pertecily familiar with all the detais, when the attorney, tor some cause he could not explain, abruptly asked, breaking in on the other party while speaking: “What became family 2°” The speaker stopped and eyed him for the space of ten seconds without saying a word. He then answered by asking another ques- tion: ‘*Who are vou and where are you trom?” HOW THE BENDERS DIED. The man’s manner was rathe~ suspicious, but the attorney having satisfied him as to his identity and business, he very soon became com municative again and went on to explain that when the murder of Colonel York took place he was living within two miles of the Ben- der tamily and had been present when the bloody cellar was discovered and afterward when the private grave yard had been found and the various victims of this horrible butchery were dug up amid the curses and threats of the angry mcb. He still xecame more confidential, and at ‘ast asked 1f his companion would really like to know what became of the Benders. Being informed that he most certainly would, and having seceived assurances that no questions would be asked, or any attempt made to obtain further intormation than was volunteered, he then gave the following account of their disap- pearance: “Not one of the Bender tamily 1s alive now. They were all caught before they had a chance to go but a little ways from the scene of their misdeeds and given quick and sure justice. John and the old man and woman were hung, begging like cowards for their lives. KATE DIED GAME. Kate tought and despite all the of the Bender efforts of the parties who took them, | they could not hang her, and at last one of them drew a revolver and ut tor Her Life—Is the Story True? whete | with her. a her captors were gong ‘ seized the first thang $ get held, ma soc could ack on er nearest purstr " K up till she was kilted. Pie nhers, however, begged tor hte my most abject manner, especially he old man, Whose pileous cries were only cut short by the rope as it | choked the wind out of him. Their bodies are in the Indian territory and some dav people may know Where they are, but not tor the present.” THOUGHT TO BE TRUE. The stranger then became silent and did not inchned to give anv lurther particulars. From tacts a tcrward learned the truth of the «ory can be depended on, or at least so thought the attorney to whom it was telated The fact, too, that Cotunel York went down when his brother was killed and after having several conterences with the people in the neighborhood has never since made any endeavors to find the murderers of his brother adds strong ly to the presumption that he then learned the fate of the parties in question, and consequently knows that there 1s no use to search for them. The crimes of the Benders have never been equalea by any in the annals of time. For several years persons had disappeared while traveling in that section of the coun- seem try and nothing could ever be heard tron them, Several searches were made tor missing individuals, in one or two instances the searching parties have stopped at the Bender place. They kept a store,or rather a country inn, where travelers often stopped and retreshed themselves. HOW THE FIENDS BUTCHERED. Their method of procedure was to get the unsuspecting individual mto a little room separated from the rest ot the house by a curtain, sitting at the table, where he was to take re freshments, so he would sit with the back of his bead against the curtam, In this way a person behind the curtain with a window in front of him. could plainly see just where to strike with an ax or some heavy instrument in order to knock the guest senseless With one good blow all resistance would be over the same room led to a small cellar where the throats were cut and the peckets rifled of their contents. After the York episode and the consequent flight of the Benders a thorough examination was made of the premises, bringing to light a large number of bodies that had been buried on the place. The most ot them were identified by former friends who had given them up as lost in some mysterious way, after a vain search. The murders had ex tended oyer a considerable space of time, the victims furnishing the un natural tamily a precarious source of and a trap door in income. EVIDENCE OF RESISTANCE. From indications in the house some of the victims had not been stunned so that they were prevented from making a fight. There were several places where bullets had struck the house and the blood stains could yet be seen on the walls. Some one had evidently attempted to detend himself, but was over- powered by superior numbers, as it appeared that the whole tamily took part in the butcheries. The whole story, with the details, may yet be generally known whenever any one ot the parties who took part in the hanging concludes to tell :t. While it would do no good, yet those who have lost fnends would hike to know how they died and the circumstances connected with their taking off. The parties who took part in the obsequies need not be tearful ot telling, as it is very doubttul if a jury could be found in southern Kansas who would find them guilty of any crime. “One Nail Drives Out Another,” is a French saying that finds exemplifica- shot her, killing her dead on the | tion in the way one disease will substi- spot. She was gam, however, to the very last, biting, scratching and sicking her assailants in such a fur. ous manner that to do anything but to kill her like a dog. She never begged or seemed | Discovery” to exhibit any concern tor what she had done, or what was going to be tute itself tor another and graver one, in very many cases Liver disease for in- Stance will soon induce blood disorders, throat ailments, skin affections and even- tually, because ,ot impoverished blood, it was impossible | consumption itselt, unless, indeed, it be treated in its incipiency and early pro- gress by Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical which acts as a specific in thes ailments, accomplishing a rapid cure by its powertul alterative action upon the great organs ot the body. BLOODTHIRSTY NEGROES. oo Positive Proof of the Existence of a Desperate Clan im South Carolina. —- = Chariesion, 8 C., Dee 15.—A week ago a aispaich trom York }countvy repored that a while boy lnamed John Leeguod had been so lheaten and c:angled that he soon | cred, and that our colored men nad pa arreste:t as the murderers and | committed to jan. The theory was that some of the neg:Oes had been detected by the boy tn the act of stealing coven trom his father’s field and that, to prevent their arrest,iney killed him, There was great ex- citement m the county in more arrests conse- quence and several were made, It has since been proved conclu sively that an organization exists among the colored people which contemplates murder in event of the detection of any member accused of Twenty-six negroes are now under arrest. The inquest on the body of the murdered boy, betore a discreet jury, brought out all the tacts. One of the negtoes turned state’s evidence and another admit- ted that he had killed a man who was murdered in the county eighteen Several of the colored crime. m onths ago. witnesses at the inquest swore dis- unctly that they had a ciub or clan in the county tor the purpose ot stealing cotton, tobacco, provisions, whisky, etc. The members were to and it kill the who detected them. The different was general'y known as the **Rising Star Lodge No. 24 of the Grand United steal whatever they wanted, detected, were sworn to person but club had names, Order of National Laborers and Protective Society of Nonh Amen- ca.’ The charter came from Charlotte, N. C., and was dated December, 1834. The charter, bowever, would seem to show that the society bad only benevolent and fraternal objects. Among other things revealed at the inquest was a plot to waylay Elias Inman, who was thought to have money, but the him. One of the witnesses gave a detailed account ot assassin missed the murder ot the poor boy fohn Leegood, and zlso the names of his The talk of « yeneral lynching has abated, but the indignation and unrest are in- tense. accomplices in crime. Whatever name or designation is given to Fever and Ague, or other intermit- tent disease it is sate to say that Malaria or a disordered state ot the Liver is at tault. 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