The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-06-20

From Assistant City Marshal
Newbern, who has just returned
from q long but fruitless search
after the Blenders, in Texas, says
the Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor,
of May Goth, we obtain the follow
ing description Of the personnel of
the different members Of that very
agreeable and smiable family, the
first full and authentic description
yet published:
The old man, John Bender, or
"old man Bender" as he was called,
is fftytive to sixty years old, about
five feet, seven inches in height, rath-
round-shonldered, with very dark
complexion, and very heavy beard
cut rather short; hair long and dark,
mixed with gray, and very heavy
eye-lashes; nose sharp and very long;
hands very spare, with cords upon
the backs prominent; gait slow and
sluggish-seemed rather to stalk
around than walk; weight 140 to
$50 pounds. He had a sleepy,
downcast look, and was grim and
surly in his department. His cheeks
are sunken and rather long. He
speaks English in a very broken
manner, his native tongue being
the Low Dutch. His voice seems
to come rather from his chest than
his mouth. He is slightly bald,
and is careless and slovenly in his
dress.
The old woman, Mrs. Bender, is
aged about fifty years, and is very
nearly as tall as the old man; broad
shouldered and rather fat-made,
and long-waiSted; skin dark and
tawny; face wrinkled and rather
pointed, with firm mouth; neck slim
and cordy; hair, dark brown. She
has quick, nervous walk, and
sets her whole weight down when
she steps. She speaks sharp, quick
and broken.
The young man who went by the
name Of John Bender, was . large,
strongly built man, with full, round
face, large eyes, large nostrils; swar.
thy, leather-like complexion, light
brown hair, and rather heavy jaws.
Height, FIVE feet seven inches. He
was very large and square in the
shoulders, flll-breasted, and heavy
bodied, was inclined to run his boots
over on the outside. He has .
wild, scary expression, but looks
square in the face when talking,
and is generally smiling when in
conversation. He shows his teeth,
which are large, when laughing,
and has a habit Of drawing down
the corners of his mouth. There
is q scar across two Of his fingers of
ore hand, and one finger Is stiffened.
His eyes are dark grey. His age is
about tweDty.eight years.
Katie Bender, the "she devil''
of this gang of 6tnds, was aged
twenty-one or twenty-five years.
Her complexion is yellow. She
had very high cheek bones, very
sharp chin, and the contour Of her
countenance is said to resemble that
ofa wolf. The girls used to say
she had a "woltish face" Her hair
was light brown, with a tinge
of red. She is somewhat round or
Stoop-shouldered, rather hollow
breasted. She is rather slender
built; and has a long, slim waist.
Her ears have been pierced for ear
drops. but she wore none. Her
eyes are dark grey. Her nose is
somewhat flat, with large nostrils.
She is quick and rapid in her speech.
Her weight is ITO pounds.
The name OF ",John Gerbardt"
and "Johsnnah Bender" found
in . Bible in the house,
has given rise to the suspicion that
these were IN reality the names Of
the young people; that their rela.
tionship as brother and sister was
purely an invention, and that they
we're living together in adultery.
Altogether the family seems to have
oeen about a. disageeable . o..e
's could we'll b imagined.