The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-05-20
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THE DEVILS KITCHEN.

THE DEVILS KITCHEN.
Farther Particulars ofthe Butchei
Repder,s Den-The Pursuit. OF th'
Human Buschers-How Armed Mel
were FOOLED.
From the Kansas City Times, 18th.
The foul and dreadful series Of muir
ders lately brought to light in Labett'
county, Kansas, continues to be the al
absorbing topic Of Speculation and con-
yersatiou throughout the State, and tt
excite wonder and amazed horror al
over the nation. Every item of circum
stance connected with the horrid butch
ery is diligently sought after, and ears
made credulous by the feariully true
story of the damnsble deeds OF the
Render family are made to drink iu
rumors and stories which have tbeil
foundation only in the imagination
which vaiply labors to invent some
thing more ct, ange and horrid than the
reality. The Times has already pub.
lisned such full and generally accurate
accounts OF the discovery Of the affair
and the subsequent movements OF the
populace, officers and criminals thai
little remains to be added, but the fol-
lowing facts CLEANED BY the Times spe-
cial reporter, who returned from Hell
Half Acre''-as the Bender garden
will hereafter be known-yesterday
will be read with universal interest.
THE DEVILS KITCHEN,
otherwise the Bender house, is small,
rude frame shauty, without lath or plas-
ter or intervening substance between
its floor and the rafters Of the pointed
roof. In size it is 16x24 feet. Small
nprights 2x4 inches are set to mark
the house into two compartments, but
no wall had ever been made other than
a white cotton cloth hungin the rear
apartment and against these uprights.
The front apartment had in tia counter,
over which the butchers once pretended
TO sell groceries. In the rear room was
a rude bed, a table, a stove, and three
chairs.
The table to which the guests of the
fiends were seated, was placed directly
over the trap door, 30 that the guests
back was to and against the white cur
tain. In this position it was an easy
thing for the male Williams in the front
apartment to strike the form clearly
lined and resting against the white
cloth, and, when the blows Of the
sledge srd the hammer had knocked
the victim, with o crushed and broken
skull, senseless and hopeless to the
floor, for the female fends in the back
room to cut the throat. The execution
was a. simple as it was dreadful; but,
cugh it would seem resistance to such
we'll planned murder Of the trusting and
unsuspecting was impossible. the walls
gave silent evidence that some OF the
murdered ones had not been sent to
their doom without an effort to defend
their lives. No less than a dozen bull
let holes in the sides and roof Of To e
house attest that armed men, when
struck down 30 relentlessly, had at
tempted to shoot their murderers; but.
unfortunately, the aims had been wild
and the murderers are reserved tor the
hempen halter.
THE SITUATION.
The building is located just on the
rising edge of a beautiful narrow valley,
circled on the south, east and west by
q range OF mounds or hills, fronting to
the north in the mouth OF the valley.
The hills are distant from the house
from a halt mile to q mile, the closest
being on the south to the rear. The
house frouted to TIE road just In the
bend, sitting back about it's own length
from the roadway. From this point o1
the road can be had a full view OF eve
rything for half q mile in every direc'
ton, but not another house is within
sight. 1t is about seven miles from
C6erryvale, ten miles from Thayer
eight from Ladore and two from More,
head, and just in the northwest corner
of Labette county.
WHERE THE MURDERED NOW SLEEP.
With the exception Of Dr. York and
Henry F. Mckenzie, G. W. Longcol
and daughter, whose families took
charge OF their remains and buried
them at Independence. the bodies o
those found in the garden graves were
quietly taken by silent men, who knew
them not, yet louged for vengeance OF
sheir asssssius, to the base OF a high
mound, about a mile to the southeas
of the devils kitchen, and there
second tune returned to the earth, Il
sleep until the Anal resurrection.
WHO THEY WERE.
The first of the eight bodies discov
cred was Dr.. York, OF Independence
GEORGE w. LoNGooR AND DAUGHTER.
Mr.. Longcor was q neighbor of DR.
York's from whom he had purchased
team, just before starting for Iowa, il
December last. He and his iuian
child were buried in one grave. He, a.
all the other men, had the back of th'
skull crushed in and broken, and hi
throat cut, and the body stripped o
nearly all the clothing. The child wa
placed at its fathers feet, without
bruise or mark OF violence upon it, ant
all its little clothes on, even to it's littl
hood and mittens, and many judge tha
the little one had been buried alive.
l.. @ DROWN
was from Ceiarville, Howard comfy
He had recently traded horses nea
LadoIe, aud was supposed to have hat
about $50 with HIM. He was recog
nized by q silver ring on bis fogeI
which uaa identified hy fhA friend