The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-05-15

Themselves in an abyss shaped like well, some
six feet deep, and aiout I've feet in diameter.
Here and there little damp places could be seen
rs If water had COME up from the lotion or been
over these splotches and held mp handful to
the light. The ooze smcarcd itself over their
palms and tlribbled through their fingers.
IT WAS BLOOD
thick, .foetid, clammy, sticking bIoo.i-that they
had found grouping there in the void. The party
had provided themselves with q long sharp nd
OF iron, which they drove into the ground In every
direction ut the bottom u the pit, but nothing
further rewarded the search, and they came away
To examine the garden in the rear OF the house,
marked in the diagram. (C) After boring or prob
ing, for nearly m hour, the rud was driven into
the spot marked (D), and when it was withdrawn,
s0methiBg that looked like matter adhered to the
point. ShOvels were set ut once to work, and in
. few moments . corpse was uncovered 1t had
been buried upon its face. The tiesh had dropped
away from his ley~ There was no coffin, NO wind
ing sheet, no preparation for the grave, nothing
upon the body but old shirt, torn in places and
thick with damp and decay. The corpse was
tendarly disinterred and lsid upon its back in the
full light Of the soft April sun One lO0k Of hOr-
ror into the CHASTITY face, fostering ami swollen,
and q dozen voices cried out in terror:
''MY GOD, II IS DR. YORK"
And it was. He had been buried in a shallow
hole, with scarcely two feet Of dirt over him. Had
him closely. Upon the back Of his head and to
the left and obiquely from his right ear, terri
bic blow had been given with hammer. The
skull had been driven into the brain, and from
the battered and broken crevices dull stream Of
blood had Oozed, plastering his hair with kind
of clammy paste, and running down upon his
shoulders.
1t seems as il the winds carried the tidiRgs to
Cherryvalc. In an hour all the town was at the
Kcene Of the discovery. A CONN was procured for
II = L.
whelned, sat by the ghastly remains as one upon
whom the hand of death had bccn laid. He could
not be cOmfOrtcx But the
HORRIBLE WORK WAS NOT YET COMPLETED.
The iron ruti was again mt in requisition, until
six more graves marked (E) were discovered, five
of which contained . corpse, and the sixth, that
in the second row, (E) containing two, an old
stages Of decomposition, and others, not far
gone might have been identified if any among
the crowd had known them in life. Coffins were
provided fur all. and again was the search fenew-
ed: 1t was past midnight when "nr % informant
left, but three more graves marked (G) had been
discovered, each supposed to contain . corpse, al
though they had not been opened. The
WHOLE COUNTRY Is AROUSED.
Couriery and telegaams have been sent in every
direction with descriptions Of the Benders and it
il not thought possible that they can escape.
With the crowd at the grave was . man named
about the murders. Furions men laid hold upon
him at once, and strnng him MP to beam in the
house. His cOntOrtiOns were fearful. His eyes
started from their sockets, and livid hue came
to his face that was appalling. Death was within
reach Of him when he cut down.
CONFESS, coNrEssw
they yelled, but he said nothing. Again he was
body cunvulsed with the death throes. Again re-
susciated, he once moro refused to open his msuth
He did not appear to understand what was want
cd of him. The yelling crowd, the mutilated and
butchered dead, the fickering and swirling torch
es spluttering in the night wind, the stern set
faces Of his executioners all passed before him az
n dreadful phantasn,agOria which dazet him aud
struck him speechless. For the third time they
swung him up, aud then his
HEART COULD NOT BE FELT TO BEAT,
and there was pulse at the wrists. "He is dead"
they said. Bnt he was not dead. The night air
revived him At last, and he was permitted to
stagger away in the darkness as who was
drunken or dcrangesl. Six butchered human be-
ings were brought forth from their bloody graves.
aud three others are to be uncovered. 1t is
thought that more graves will yet be discovered.
One corpse was SO horribly mutilated to make
the sex even matter Of doubt
THE LITTLE GIRL
was probably eight years of age, and had long, |
sunny hair, and some traces of beauty cOun- |
tenance that was not yet entirely disfgured by |
decay. One arm broken, and the breast bone |
had been driSen in. The right knee had been |
wrenched from its socksf, aud the leg donbled up
under the body. Nothing like this sickening SER |
les of crimes has ever been recorded in the whole
history of the country. Ii is supposed they have
been following thsir
HORRIBLE WORK FOR YEARS
Plnnder is the accepted cause. DIR. York, it is
said, had a large sum Of money on his person.
and that he stepped at the house either to feed
al Ill. Lx.f.r