Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-22

DOu1eS were marked IN the same
manner, except that of a little girl who
had accompanied her father, and who is
supposed to have been thrown into the
grave alive, as her body shows no marks
OF violence. The spoils of the Bender
family, engaged in this traffic in human
lives, must have been small, as none of
the murdered travellers are known to
have had any considerable money with
them. 1t is supposed, however,, that
the Blenders had confederates posted
along the road to inform them of favor
abl opportunities, and many arrests
have already been made. The Bender
family, the two m and two men.
escaped, and have not yet been appre-
hended. The detective, Beers, had
tracked them to ST. Louis at last ac-
counts, and it is not probable that they
will be harbored in any quarter of the
globe.
From the Kansas City Journal of Commerce, May ST.
DIR. William York, brother of Senator
York, of Kansas, disappeared on the
9Th OF last March, and there has been a
continued anxious search for hin since
that time. A few days since, as the
public had been advised by telegraphic
dispatches, his body was found buried
on a farm about six miles north of
Cherry Vale, by York, a brother of the
deceased. The remains of the murder
ed man, for it Is evident that he had
been murdered, were thrown into a hole
a foot deep and a foot and a half wide,
face downward. The grave was in a
plowed field, adjoining the house for
merly occupied by Bender. The par
ticulars of the discovery are described
as follows In a correspondence of the
Lawrence EUening Standard: "The
farm on which the body was found is
about six miles northeast of Cherry
Vale. 1t is a railway claim settled on
about two years ago by a family by the
name of Bender, consisting of an old
man named Bender, his son, wife and
daughter. Both are understood to have
children from a former marriage. Upon
examination the head was found
to be badly broken, with an in
denture on the back part of the skull,
and both temples smashed. One eve
had been bursted out by the force of the
blow, and the face had been cut. A
shoe-hammer had been found in the
house which fitted the mdenture on the
back of the head. 1t is supposed that
liz ol1AOhCA 1IOIu D0lll1lO, dilo GnC1
the temples broken by the hammer.
The grave was about 200 yards from the
house, and the main plowed furrow ran
crosswise fromit. The sides and middle
had settled somewhat, and an iron rod
taken from the end board of a wagon
was run down the sides of the grave
before digging into it. The house is to
be moved off its foundation to-day, and
it is supposed, from the affiuvia arising
from underneath it, that another body
, or bodies are buried. The clothing had
: been stripped from the body, excepting
I a wooden undershirt. It had not be-
! come SO badly decomposed but that it
was easy to identify it. The hair, face,
o and whiskers were in a fair state of
2 preservation, and the remains were easily
identified by Ed York. A coffin was
e brought from Independence, the body
r placed in the same, and the remains
taken to Independence, passing through
D here about 3 o'clock this morning"
r Besides the discovery of the body OF
e York, there have already been discov-
o. cred and exhumed six others from be-
: meath the house, one of them being O
child. In addition to these new evi-
dences of damnable murder and whole
e sale crime, three more graves were
found, and at the writing of our CORE
spondent were to be speedily opened
and examined. All the bodies exhumed
' gave evidence of having been killed in
r the same manner, they having been
struck by some heavy Instrument
. hammer OF hatchet-on the back and
2 lower part of the skull. Some of the
o bodies were stripped entirely of the
3 clothing. The Bender family, to whom
\ the crime is attributed, were Spiritual
lists, and occupied the premises, but FLED
o before the discovery. 1t was found,
4 upon seeking their whereabouts, that
q they had secured tickets and gone tc
q Humboldt, which is the last trace
A of them. 1t transpires that, during
e the search for the missing persons. ONT
of the Bender family, a young
woman named Kate, who represented
q herself as a Spiritualist and a medium,
4 was appealed to for information, when
the victims were traced to Blenders
premises, and she replied that she would
consult the spirits if time would be
! given her to do SO, and would, through
their agency, be able to disclose the
whereabouts of the missing persons
The time was granted, and, in the mean
time, the family took opportunity to de
4 camp, since which time nothing ha'
been learned of them, other than thei
buying the tickets for Humboldt. Thu
family kept an eating-saloon at thi
place, and, although there seems to b.
: no apparent motive for the horrible
q murder, it is more than likely it wa
v perpetrated for the gain plundered from
4 travellers along the main road leading
from Oswego to Independence, Kan
Al Altogether, the murders are without
sr parallel
= THE DEFEAT OF SEWARD IN 1867