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, vs3o :-&.,rs'g- && ts5 ! ife Wttfte Jailij gagfe: S&3 Stowing, ltam1 26, 1889: 3 i -""" ' fa Their Terrible Crimes Recalled by Arrests in Michigan. MKS. HUNRO AND ELIZA DATIS. The Officers of tho "Wolverine State Be lieved They "Were Mrs. Bender and Her Daughter Kate The Keal Benders Were Undoubtedly Killed by Kansas TlgUantes. "They have captured the Benders." Onoe more this announcement Is made in tho press. From 1873 to 18S0 it appeared with curious regularity every few months; then ceased to excite interest. But now Deputy Sheriff L. P. Dick, of Labette county, MRS. HDMIO. ELIZA. DAVIS. Kan., has actually taken two women from Niles, Mich., and is confident they are Kate Bender and her mother. The women have been known as Lira. Almira Munro, alias Griffiths, and her daughter, Airs. Sarah E. Davis, and the charge was made against them by Mrs. Albert McCann, of McPherson, Kan., whose father, John "W. Sandford, was one of tho Benders' victims. There are many rea sons for concluding that Mrs. McCann, tka official, and the few who have identified the prisoners are mistaken, as will appear by re calling the main events of the crimes and flight of the Benders. Lato in 1S70, the northern part of Labette county, Kansas, was rapidly "taken up" by pre-emptors, and among these were the Bender family, consisting of tho two parents, eon and daughter. They kept a rude hotel in a lovely little valo in the northwest part of tho county and some six miles northeast of Cherryvale, on the Leavenworth. Lawrence and Galveston road. Lato In 1872 strange rumors of missing peoplo floated about the neighborhood, and young John Bender, who peddled a sort of "oil for rheumatism" pre pared by his sister, and posted bills announc ing hor powers as a "healing medium," was observed to take a deep interest in hearing people's opinions on the matter. Early in 1STJ, whoa tho ice in Drum creek melted, tho mutilated corpse of a new comer named Jones was found in the water; but it could not bo certainly determined that he had been murdered. Since December George "W. Longcor and little daughter had been missed. Finally, on the 9th of March, 1873, Dr. Will iam EL York, of Independence, left Fort Scott to ride homo, being well mounted and having a little money. Neither he nor his horse reached Independence, but he was traced to within a mile or two of the Bender farm. Inquiry now became very active, and tho doctor's brother, Senator Edward York, wont with n, party to the farm and minutely searched all tho roads. Finding no traco they advertised the disappearance of Dr. York quite extensively. The next day, John Bonder, Jr., was again in town, listening at tentively to any group he saw talking on the streets, and that was the last day he was ever seen In Kansas. Ono week later, a settler was riding by tht Bender house and saw that it was deserted. '-jf $y; itSftvs? 5?25 UJU Z-M .-. o- iA-Vr -,jZ "Tlj ""S2vMS -zs THE BEXDER SHANTY. BTrom Harper's Weekly of June 7, 1873. Near by in a pen lay a calf just dead, and ths quick eyo of tho farmer told him it had died of thirst and hunger. Ho took in tho whols situation at once tho Benders had left in such husto that they had not released tho ani mal; ho galloped to Cherryvale and in a few hours a largo party w cro on the ground. In doors they at lirst saw llttlo that was sus picious, but ono neighbor called attention to the fact that the Bendors plowed their orchard much oftcner than ho thought necessary. It is an amusing Illustration of tho ideas of tho time and place that this man was the first tc whom tho farmer had told of his discovery as to the calf, and that tho first act of the man who heard it was to gallop to the Bender house and post on tho door, and at other points around, a notico of "Homestead entry on this abandoned claim." And ho got a good titlo, too. On his hint tho party took the iron tail rod of a wagon and began to probe in tho or chard. In a fow minutes they struck a grave. More people were arriving all tho time. Spades were hastily plied, and in a few min utes a cor jso vi as raised. "My God, it is Dr. York!" Half scream, half cry, this was tho excla mation of the noighbor. Before nightfall there was a largo crowd. Before noon next day at least 1,500 eoplo were on tho ground, and thou tho corpse of Longcor was raised, and doubled up with it was that of his once lovely little girl. This was the climax. Tho sight seemed to rouse the peoplo to unnatural frenzy. Mad with rago they rushed on a German named Brockniann, with whom tho Biders h" 1 uvotl nhon thev fiivt arrived. ii Priceless Blessing." AVER'S CHERRY PECTORAL is the best remedy for Croup, Whooping Couch. Hoarseness, and all the sudden Throat and Lung Troubles to which young people are subject. Keep this medicine in the house. Hon. C Edwards Lester, late U. S. Consul to Italy, and author of various popular works, writes : "With all sorts of exposure, in all sort of climates. I have never, to this dav, had anv cold nor any affection of the throat of lungs which did not yield to Aver's Cherry Pectoral within -4 hours. Of course I have never allowed mvself to be without this remedy in all inv voases and travels. Under my own observation, it has given relief to a vast number of persons ; while in acute cases of pulmonarv inflammation, such ns croup and diphtheria in children, lilo has been preserved through its effects. I recommend its use in light and fre quent does. Properly administered, in accordance with your directions, it is a priceless blessing hi any house." rr.EPAr.En bt Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Bold by all DrngiU. Trice $1 ; eix bottle, $5. S)ailtjr BLOODY BENDERS. mm -?iii sssa livers Oherry Pectoral, and who was Tha otily Jma who "neigh bored." with them. A rope was biwtflj knot ted about ate neck, and ho was told to "con fess, and that di quick." In hfe fright the man forgot every word of EogBah. He was rescued by the officials only after being hanged three times. Nine murders were proved on the Benders. Every vestige of the house, stable and or chard was taken away by relio hunters ; but as far as proved the murderers were never captured. There are men, however, about Independence, who think they know just where their bodies were buried. The an nexed account of subsequent events, descrip tion of the soene and Interview with Brock mann Is from " Western Wilde," by J. H. Beadle, who visited the place soon after the discovery: "On the north and east rose those pictur esque mounds which bo romantically diversify this region. To the south and west the fer tile prairie, now dotted with cultivated fields or brilliant with rank grass and flowers, spread as far as the eye could reach. Be tween was a slight depression of perhaps two square miles, and in the center of this happy valley was the "BGSdta farm. If the spirit of murder was there. It was certainly the love liest form In which that dread spirit ever stood revealed. "No black and blasted heath, no dark wood or lonely gorge, such as romance makes the mute accessories of horrid crime; but the billowy prairie, rising swell on swell, as if the undulating ocean, changed to firm set earth, stood fixed and motionless forever. The house had stood in the center of this vale, two mile from the nearest neighbor, and commanding a view of all approaches for that distance. But a few weeks had passed since the murders were discovered, and yet scarcely a vestige of house or stable was left Visitors had carried them away by splinters. Even the young trees in the orchard had been dug up and removed. "The excavation beneath the bouse, in which the murderers had allowed their vic tims to bleed before burial, still bore the hor rid signs. The scant rains of summer had not washed away the blood from its mar gin. It was half full of purple water. In tho orchard the graves remained just as left when the bodies were removed. Nine bodies wero found there, including that of a little girl who was murdered and buried with her father. They had been buried in all sorts of positions. One man, in a round hole, lay with his head directly between his feet. Mr. Longcor lay with his little daughter between his limbs. "Besides these nine, thrco other missing men were traced to the neighborhood, bring ing the whole number of victims up to twelve. Other murders have excited the community, but none with such circum stances of barbarity as these. It appeared, from an examination of the house, that the victim, when seated at the table, had his back against a loose curtain which separated the room in two apartments. Behind this curtain stood the murderer, and, at a con venient moment, dealt the unsuspecting guest a deadly blow in the back of the head with a huge hammer. Ho fell back, the trap door was raised, his throat was cut, and he was tumbled into the pit to lie till tho last drop of gore had ebbed away. Thence he was taken at night and buried in the orchard. And these fiends incarnate, after this fearful violation of the rites of hospitality and the laws of God and man, went on with their daily life ate and drank and slept, and perhaps rejoiced and made merry, with that dreadful pool, fast filling with the blood of tbeir victims, just beneath their feet. SOENE OF THE BENDER JTOBDERS. From Harper's Weekly of June 7, 1873. "The nearest neighbor was a German, named Brockmann, who was roughly treated and narrowly escaped hanging by the mob when tho murders were first discovered. The account ho gave me of the family is curious in tho extreme, though many of the details are unfit for publication. The Benders, con sisting of John Bender, Sr., his son John and daughter Kate, and their mother, were from tho Franco-German portion of Alsace, and spoke both languages fluently as also the Eng lish. Thej- had formerly lived In Illinois, but came to Kansas in 1S70, and boarded some time with Brockmann ; then made entry on this piece of land. They were fanatical spir itualists, and Kate Bender advertised as a clairvoyant and healing medium. The young man, her brother, who distributed her hand bills arouud the country, was generally re garded as a simpleton; his mother also seem ed very dull, and rarely spoke. "But Kate was the genius of the family. She stated, in her moments of 'exaltation,' that she was a 'saviour come again, but in female form;' that she could raiso the dead. but it would be wtoue to do so. She bad a j 'familiar spirit' which directed all the move ments of the family; and several persons J visited and consulted her, either from curios I ity or other motive. Before burial they muti lated tho victims in on obscene and disgusting manner. So thoroughly was this done that when the body of Longcor was raised it was at first supposed to be that of a woman. "The excised portions of none of the bodies were ever found, though the ground was thoroughly searched; and among the few j neighbors who knew anything of the family's blasphemous incantations, there are dark and ' horrible hints as to tho disposition made of theso pieces. Should wo accept the half that is told by tho neighbors wo must conclude that this was a family in whom every natural impulse has beeu imbruted; that they be lieved themselves in league with powers to i whom they offered infernal sacrifices and murdered for mere lust of blood. It is known that, with ono exception, the victims had i very little money, and that their spoils did I not altogether exceed $E,500. One man was known to have had bat t won ty-five cents. I "Tho escape of tho Benders was long a ' great mystery. That a family of four per sons could drive to tho nearest railroad sta- ' tiou, abandon their team there, take tho train and escape all the officers and detectives set upon their track, was incredible. Neverthe less, that was the report of the local officials, and the state of Kanras, apparently, made creat xertions to recapture tho fugitives. 'Old Man Bender' became a standing joke; every old vagabond In the country was sus pected, numbers were .wrested, and the Utah authorities actually sent a harmless old fana tic, captured in the mountains, back to Kaa sas for identification. & IHK QJU.TE OT DB. TORE. From Harper's Weekly of Juee 7, ISTi. "But it was noticed that Kansas officials wrsjathocldiffarenc.ontka.Tnhint ,d In dv. wnen fire.ib is useless to Hre yourself. JdouV half op your toil can be sAvoided by It doesn't make us tired to tell about the merits of SAPOLIO. Thousands of women in the United States thank us every hour of their lives for having told them of SAPOLIO. Its use saves many weary hours of toil in house-cleaning. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. Grocers often substitute cheaper goods for SAPOLIO to make a better proEt. Send back such articles, and insist upon having just what you ordered. ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO., NEW YORK. due time some of the facts leaked olit. There have been sensational stories about tho posse overtaking the fugitives in the groves west of the Verdigris river, where a desperate fight took plaie, in which both the women were 'accidentally killed.' Without going into particulars, it is safe to say that tho Bender family 'ceased to breathe' soon after J their flight, and that their carcasses rotted beneath the soil of the state so scandalized by their crimes." VERDI, COMPOSER. Nov. 17 the riftleth Anniversary of the First ferformmnce of His First Opora. On the 17th of November, 18S9, was given the first rendition of the first opera of Verdi, namely "Oberto Conti dl San Bonlfazio," and the fiftieth anniversary of that event has just been declared a national holiday in Italy. The event naturally causes the publi cation of many carious and some amusing facts in the life and experience of the great composer, for it is to bo remembered that Verdi is honored in Italy not only as the great native maestro type of the national niusic, but also as the musician of patriotism. Daring tho stormy period of Italy's struggle towards nationality many a hard battle be tween critics and politicians was fought around Verdi 8 operas, and in one instance that most ludicrous of all transitions took place the scene of "Un Ballo in Moschera" was transferred bodily to Boston, and the piece was given as if it presented an experi ence of the early Puritans. Oiuseppa Verdi, son of an inn keeper, was born at Rancola, in the duchy of Parma, Oct. 9, 1814, and received his first lessons in music from a rath er commonplace or ganist. The result was that when he applied for admis sion to the conser vatory be was re fused on the ground that he had "no natural aptitude for music" a ver dict that seems ludicrous enough now. But this was the least of tho ( haps and mishaps of all seekers for popularity in that VEBDI. troubled time In Italy. It is not easy to pio ture to young readers tho social and political condition when Italy was divided into many different states, all suspicious of each other and all especially jealous of Sardinia, which has sinco annexed all the others and thus es tablished the kingdom of Italy. Art, science, drama, pootry and everything else became political, and even schools of music wore di vided between "Guelph and Ghibelline." Suffice it to state that after studying under a private teaoher and literally conquering his way into the conservatory, after becoming chief of orchestra to the Philharmonic society and composing many minor pieces, he at length produced his first opera, which was Tendered at La Soala, in Milan, and proved a great success. But the blackest period of bi life was yet to come. When entering on new work, which promised profit as well as honor, he was prostrated by sickness, and before his recovery his wife and two children died. Almost insane with grief, ho was long Inca pacitated for work, but recovered at last and entered on his brilliant career. His widest known operas are "Nebucado nosor," "Ernani," "Attila," "Macbeth," "Rigoletto," "II Trovatore," "La Traviata," "Otollo," "Giovannad'Arco," "Aidi" and the much laughed about but justly celebrated "Un Ballo in Moschera." Th ludicrous features of it came about as follows: It was written late in 1857, and the general design was taken from the career of Gus tavus HI, of Sweden. It was an era of gen eral ferment in Italy, so the censor of Naples, when it was to bo produced, declared that the killing of a king in full view of a Naples audience was not to be permitted. Verdi hesitated as to making the desired changes, but a sort of accommodation was arrived at when, Jan. 13, 185S, ust as the first rehearsal was in progress, the telegraph brought news that Felice Orsini had tried to assassinate Napoleon III. So the governmonta in Italy declared that all king killing on the stage was inciting to treason and could not be per mitted I Tho people broke out into indignant protests, and Verdi became almost a revolu tionary hero. Then came Jucovacci, director of the Apollo theatre at Rome, and engaged to get tho opera produced there. Some funny changes were made; the scene was transferred from Sweden to Bosson in colonial times. Instead of a king, the one killed was Ricardo, the earl of Warwick, governor of Boston 1 His attendants were Puritans (in Italian costumes of the XTVth century D, including two negroes, Sam and Tom, who were leaders m the conspiracy! As the victim was an English governor in stead of a divinely appointed king, the cen sor had not objected, and so the solid men of Boston in the Seventeenth century were pre sented as capering, singing and conspiring atamaskedbslli It is scarcely necessary to add that the original Italian version has pre vailed sinco Italy became free. The old age of Virdi has been quiet, ani of late years he has almost ceased from mu sical work. A Sad Accident. Judge You are charged, sir, with being the leader of a party which hunted down and lynched a horse thief. The days have gone by when citizens of this great commonwealth can thus take the law into their own hands, hence your arrest. What have you to say! Prominent Citizen I ain't guilty, jedge, ni tell you bow it was. We caught the fel ler and tied his hands and feet. Notkin' wrong about that, was there, jedge? "No; that was no doubt necessary." "Wall, jedge, there was a storm comin' up and we cooMnt spare him an umbrella very welL-so we stood him under a tree. That was all right, wasn't itP "CtainlT., "Wall, the clouds kept gatherin' an' the wind was purty high, and we didn't want hfcn blown away, so we tied a rope around his neck and fastened the other end to the limb above not tight, jedge, jest so as to hold him and we left him standin' solid on his feet. Nothin' wrens about that, was there!" "Nothing at alL"1 "Then I kin be excused, c&n't IP "But the man was found suspended fr-n that tree and stone dead the next morning " "None of us had anything to do with that. jedga. Tou see, we left him stsndm' there in gcod health and spirits, fer we give him all he could drink when we said 'good-byf but, you see, dunsg th night tks rain came up an' I Vpse the -rope got, purty' "el and . shrank a couple o' feet. That's how the Ead acciaeni canosneo. fiA Sfrhv &Mra e&nWVmm iWSxSf WyfT f me wind blows your the use of H&psE RESENTED THE OUTRAGE. The Macaw Xooked Aft, Saw a Vacancy and Got Mad About It. Tf Tiflniol. tho man of parrots in the-KIm- ball house, made a queer deal yesterday. He has lately received a very fine macaw, of gorgeous plumage, and the bird has been greatly admired. But when one of the high muck-a-mucks-of the Comaoehes was sauntering along the street and espied him he became wild. "How much footherP "No wantee sellee fodder," replied the dealer, in his blandest Chinee, not being able to talk Comanche. "How much red featherP repeated the Comanche. "No wantee sellee led fodder," again re plied Mr. Daniel, feeling very much embar rassed. 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Paid-up Capital, - - $500,000 Stockholders Liabitity, - - $1,000,000 LargM 1 Pia-up Capital ot amy B-Jc in tfc SUt of Kanaa -DLRSCTOB3 - CJLJdAWH. ,T. ttTTXM ic w.a. r ufiafc DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. United States, County, Township, and Muni cipal Bonds Bought and Soli L. C. Jackson, Successor to HACKER & JACKSON, . Wholesale and Retail dealer in all kinds of Anthracite and Bituminous Coal -Ana all kinds of M.in nfflr. 112 Sooth rourtn venue, Brancn office, 133 North 5a Yards connected with all ralUoada In tho city. Globe Iron Works, Wichita, Kan A. FLAGG-, Proprietor. ICflaMaBRflflSKNp Going to Eaj. WH1 Mannf actorei all Hod of Machinery and Bofltn, Task aod Bhm? Iron Work. PoDeya. JJhaf tic jc and Hangers, and All kisdi of catls maAt Vt oris: Estimates tumUhtd on nil cLsjua ot work. W. H. P027DA, Soperlntendtnt. S.O. DATIOSOK. PnsHezx. . Jw- T- BAJ5COCS. -?tmZs. Davidson Investment Comp'y Paid-up Capital, $300,000, $5,000,000 Loaned in Southern Kansas. Money Always on Hand for Improved Farm and City Loans. ), wua C8ia EX aartXt azii lata SSrm aaa Omgim Arfc WICHITA, KANSAS. Roller Mills. INOOWOiUTID US. - $100,000. Lowest Jobbing Pricos guaranteed. Yka-Pra. JOnH DER3T CaaUot. btcwart; fra r.wa. .TlO,H9 JOHJIT. ciXTKfltX. Building Materlil.- iflQO No tlliloa or cro b4 Frr.allt AtnoaBt of frictlos. 8u-n.cn uod erpwarirelj 15 to 25 pr ent tai-ia orw oj automatic ao4 W M pre cent OTfr aaj rfnil u4 ralv. magnn. OUH OUAll AZTY U that It f more eco nomical in fuelthaa asr aUgta elide Talr enxtc bsilt, a&l at 0 rrroads of $Vmm cuttisg off at ) trok Jt will errj a kd of 15 to 20 jTOnt gt v tbaa any lsJ alkia nJ a cjllcder 3gte LnllL Wa Want lb & U Partia jm vzz& tha to rxt. 4-w, .. aifcJyifcaArt wMUfafeA flJW1ffSJI ?! m S'j&feajfe. 4,ea-!- gj ' -4 xiS-t--a'-'-s-. ' j(h y HHHMMHHHHHIHHHHHHH