The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-19

lEne bender Horrors Outdone Ii
\ WisconSin..A Human Fiends.Hs
Claims TO Have Murdered More
Than Forty Persons and CiIoati
Over His Bloody Crime.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 17.-Bob Turner, o.
Potosi, Grant county, Wisconsin, was ar
rested for the murder Of his brother. The
inquest, which has Just been concluded
reveals blood thirsty depraVity riyaline
that OF the Bender family. The murdered
man was killed with an axe, his head be,
ing nearly severed from his body, as he
was coming out OF o mineral hole in
which he was at work. He fell back
speechless and never moved. The mur-
derer then called TO another brother, New.
ton, who was In an adjoining Rhait, TO
come up. When Newton reached the
surface he perceived the body Of the
murdered man and was about to
run when Bob seized him and showing
him the bloody axe threatened 10 kill
him instantly unless he swore to assist
In putting the body away, and TO preserve
silence. This Newton assented to, but on
the first opportunity escaped to Polosi
where he gave the alarm, and the muir.
derer fled TO Lancaster. He was pursued,
arrested and lodged In prison, where he
soon attempted the life Of his keeper. The
second murder which has Just come to
light Is that Of Alney Neley, a youth Of
the town Of Ellinboro. Bob Turner was
Of that time cutting hoop poles for
Mr.. Bell; on Thursday, December 23, the
day Neeley started from Bells to visit his
mother, who resides In New California,
His road lay through some timber belong.
Ing to Bailey, where Turner was at work.
That was the last seen Of young Neeley
till the 9th Of January. The people In
the neighborhood having heard Of Turn.
ers mufderous propensity, and knowing
that young Neeley had TO pass near where
he was at work, turned out on Friday TO
hunt for his remains. Eight men started
from Bells, and searched the ground on
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
indications showed that Turner had com.
menced 10 cut down saplIng, having
struck two blows on the left side and one
on the right, The second blow evidently
was the one that killed the boy. The po.
sition In which the body lay and the
course the blow from the axe had
taken indicated It. The boys head
was nearly cut from the body, hang.
ing by small piece of skin on the
back and front Of the neck, the axe
having gone clear through his neck.
When found, young Neeley had the pa.
per percel under his arm Just as he was
carrying 1t. The body was taken care of
and . jury empanneled TO hold an inquest
and the verdict was that 0lney Neeley,
aged IA years, came to his death from a
blow OF an axe In the hands OF Robert
Turner.
Several other mysterious murders haV-
ing taken place in the localities in which
Turner had been seen, Marshall Bennett
visited the prisoner and asked him to
confess II he had any hand in
them. He finally confessed that he
remembered having killed two men, one |
q stranger, whom he had encountered in |
a deep ravine back Of the Poor farm and |
thereupon attacked and murdered him,
hiding the body, and the other a man
whom he met on the road to Muscada,
where he was going to get work. he
says the latter made threatening ges-
tures, and he feared he was going |
to take mis- lie, 80 he closed with |
him, and With a four.pound weight,
which he carried In his pocket, struck |
him two blows over the eyes, smashing in |
his skull and killing him instantly. He
then dragged the body into the bushes
and secreted It there. Now that he has
confessed, he delights 10 talk Of the many
persons he has killed. he gloats over the
akill with which he has concealed their
bodies, and declares that nobody can find
them but himself, and that Il they were
gol together there would be nearly forty
oil them.