The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-02-06
A Wisconsin Horror-The Benders

Outdone.
Readers Of the Trt5aaae will re-
mem Der the arrest of Bob Turner. OF
Potosi, Grant county, Wisconsin. on
the 9th of December last. for the
murder of his brother Albert. The
inquest has now been held. and a
series of terrible crimes have been
unearthed that viii equal, ifnot sur
pass, the Bender atrocitY. The mur-
dered man was killed with an Ak,
the head being nearly severed from
the body, as lie was coming out Of q
mineral hole in which he was at
work. He fell back speechless snd
never moved more. The murderer
then called to another brother, New
ton, who was in an adjoining shaft,
to come up, and Newton commenced
to climb. When be reached the sur
face he perceived the body Of the
murdered Albert, and was about TO
run. when Bob seized him, and, show
ing him the bloody Ak, threasened to
kill him instantly unless he sWore to
assist In putting away the body, and
o preserve silence. This Newton
assented to, but on the first opDor-
tunity he escaped to PotOsi. where
be gave the alarm, and the murder
er fed to Lancaster. At Potos1 the
hue and cry was raised, and officer
Wilmot and a committee Of citizens
pursued Bob, and captured him. He
was taken to prison, and his conduct
there was revolving in the extreme.
He attempted to kill a fellow prison
er, but was discovered in time and
secured.
The second murder laid to his
charge, which has just come to LIGHT,
is that Of Olney Neeley. It appears
that during the latter part of Novem-
her and the first days Of December,
Bob Turner was in the employ of
Mr.. R. Bailey, in the town Of Cliff.
ton, engaged in cutting hoop-poles,
living with Mr.. r. Bell. In the town
of Ellenboro was the boy in question.
On Tuesday, December %, the boy
Neeley started from Bells to visit
his mother, who resides in New Cali
fOrnia. His road lay through the
timber belonging to Bailey, where
Turner was at work.
That was the last seen of Young
Neeley to the 9th of jan. The peo-
pie residing in the neighbOrhOod,
having heard of Turner's propensity,
and knowing that young Neely had
to pass near where be was at work,
turned out on Friday last to hunt
for his remains. Eight men started
from Bells, and searched the ground
each side of the road. When they
arrived upon the premises where
Turner had been chopping, they
found the body, which lay as it had
fallen six weeks before. The indi-
cations showed that Turner had com
Denced to cut down sappling, hav-
ing struck two blows on the left side
and one on the right The second
blow evidently was the one that
killed the boy. The position in
which the body lay, the course the
| blow from the ak had taken, all in
| dicated it. The boys head was
nearly cut from the body, only hang
| igg by small piece Of skin on the
back and front Of the neck, the ak
having gone clear through the neck.
Several other myteriOus murders
having taken place 10 localities IN
which Turner had been seen, Mar
shall Bennett visited the prisoneF,a
asked him to confess if he had any
hand in them. He finally confessed
that he remembered killing two men
a stranger whom he encountered in a
deep ravIne back of the poor farm,
and thereupon attacked and murder
ed him, hiding the body,and the 9TH
er man he met on the road to Mus
cada, where he was going to get
work. He says that the latter made
threatening gestures, and he was
afraid he was going to take his life,
so he closed with hin, and with a
four pound weight which he carried
in his pocket, struck him two blows
over the eyes, killing him instantly.
He dragged the body into the bushes
and secreted it there. 1t now turns
out, also, that be had before attempt
ed to murder his brother Albert, sew
ering a part Of the left ear, and near
| ly breaking in the side of his head.
Now he has confessed, he delights
TO talk of the many persons he has
killed. He gloats over the skill with
which he has concealed their bodies,
and declares nobody can find them
but himself, aud that if they were
got togethea there would be nearly
forty Of them. He says that his
mission on earth was to kiE of the
people, as there were altogether too
manv people crowding into this
country, and exhibits savage sat
isfsctiOn in recounting his bloody
exploits.