Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-05-21

body Of a man, face downward, was found.
There was no oofin. and torn and dis
oolored shir, was all that covered the body.
With care the remains were disinierTed,
for portion Of the flesh bad fallen from
tho lower limbs; but when the body vas
laid on is back, 10 the horror OF all pres.
cnt, II was found to be that Of DR.. York.
Although very much swollen, the face was
perfect enough f6r classification. and. 4
wound at the back Ofthe head plainly in
dicated the cause Of death. The skull had
been driven inio the brain with a blow
from some weapon like hammer, and iD
the house was found two stoemakers
hammers. Tho news we're speedily con.
veyed to Senator York, Who soon visited
the scene with a coffin in which to deposit
the remains. which he readily identified
as those Ofhis missing brother, an injury
to the knee proving :he matter beyond a
doubt. ....- ..5.
This discovery. instead Of satisfying the
searchers, only wctted their anxiety. and
the rod was again put in requisition. In
short time six more graves were diseov.
cred, Eve containing single corpses, and
cue an old man and little girl. Some
e the bodies we're beyond recognition, but
others had enough Of humanity left to ad.
NIT of Identification. 1t was evident that
all had been the victims Of the murderers
violence. and there was no doubt but that
the Bender family had committed the
butchery, doubtless for the sake ofplunder.
Further search has since brought TO light
three other graves, aud of the thirteen
bodies which have been disinterred, six
have been recognized, as follows: DR.
Y ork, II. Longchos aud child, identified
by his father-in-law w. F. Mccarthy,
a soldier of company d, l23d Illinois
volunteers d. Brown, identified by sill.
YER ring on his finger, and John Gerry
of Howard county, recognized by his wife.
All appear to have been killed by blows
on back of tho head with hamm err, and
the threats of all had been cut, except
that Of the little giil, who is thought to
have been thrown alive into the grave with
her father. The search of the grounds
will be conducted with great perseverance,
until it has been asscrtaincd that nothing
further can be found. People are collect.
ing from different parts Of the country in
order to ascertain if any Of their missing
friends are amsng the dead. Three men
from Howard county have been missed,
and one has been found among tho muir.
dered victims. The disappearance of a
stone. mason named Jones, who left Usage
Mission to go TO Independence, isnow sup
posed TO be accounted Cor, and the stories
of other disappearance are being revived
for the urposc of tracing clews which may
lead to the identification Of the bodies.
The excitement on the discovery of the
bodies WINS SO intense that the crowd
which gathered on the premises. seeing
among them man named Brockman, who
was supposed to know something about
the murders, seized him and strung him
up to beam until life was nearly extinct,
when they called apon him to confess
Finding him obstiuately silent, they again
hung him up by the neck until nearly
dead, when he was once more let down
and restored He now appeared to lave
lost mental sensation, and did not seem
to understand what the furious crowd wan.
ted, as they again shouted for him to con-
fess A third time he was hoisted up to
a beam, and this time it was believed the
straDgulation had proved fatal but upon
being laid upon the ground in the open
air he recovered, and was allowed to
stsgger away.
The Bender family consisted of two
brothers, William and Thomas, and two
women reported to be their wives. They
were not in intimate relations with their
neighbors, as there seemed to be some.
thing uDcanny about them, particularly in
the case ofJehanna, bctterknown as Katie,
the wife of Thomas. She is described as a
red-faccd, repalsive-looking young woman,
who protested TO bea spiritualistio medi-
um, and to cure all sorts OF diseases. She
had issued circulars, advertising to cure
blindness, deafness and pretty much
everything. II was generally believed
that she tyrannized over the ether men,
bers of the family by assuming to possess
supernatural powers.
The other woman is about AZ years
old, with iron-gray hair, hard and sinister
looking, steel-gray eyes, tall, angular
form, and repulsive features. She also
pretended to be a spiritualist, and en-.
gagged in the distilation of charms from the
boiling Of roots and herbs. These strange
land hideous women had even offered to d.
{ vine the whereabouts of the missing per
sous, but the people In the vicinity fell