Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-14
OLD MAN BENDER.
|er the Kansas Butchers CageG

villains have gained such nOtO-
in modern times as the Kansas
hers, the FENDER family. Last
the first account Of their terrible,
man murders appeared in print,
for months the most hOrrifying
Is Of their great crimes were pub
h: not a newspaper in the land
Ontaincd something of the Bend
Ind their bt,tcheries; illustrated
Ials tccmed with grizzled Dutch
aits and wood cuts Of hard look
shrivcled female faces; the most
nous countenance the imaginative
could produce was fiamingly
libed as the exact likeness of one
her of the Bender family; mothers
tened their cross children into
hless subjcction by repeating
of the stories told Of
THE KANSAS BUTCHERS.
ONLY in America were the>o tales
but they flew over the Atlantic.
re the English, German and
Ich Journals took them up and
ishcl and rcpubliShed them to-
the sensation lowing tastes of their
ers: and. with all that has been
~ and published of the human vam.
r23 the great public still eagerly de-
vS11fs everything to be found in print
With tells of them and their crimes.
Tnnd and long have been the cries for
yeGGeance on the heads of the four
n ipalS of the multitudinOus muir
de- but hose cries accomplished
n0efjnr save tO show the feeling of the
562e found. isilant officers could
thoprOiniSe of monetary rewards failed
T. dIscovcr them. OF late, the hope of
h1~xsing the criminals to Justice has
alpst entirely died out, and the
Hers were about considered as
gs Of the past, not to be known in
d future. When the country was on
hlert for any trace that would lead
e he detection OF these fiendS, the
MID published that Il person sup
d to be the
OLD WOMAN BENDER
in ttah county. in this Territory,
ly watched by some ct the people
b. Nothing was done in the prem
and after Il few days the impress
that the strange looking female
had SO suddenly appeared in
70 was the old woman Bender.
away with the mysterious di&,p-
anre Of the old l,ag. There were
8 hat Tina sufficient suspicious cir-
stances to warrant the detention of
BID woman and the institution of
Investigation. But such was not
ease, and it is now too late to take
m in the matter. About two
~ this ago news reached this city
OLD NAN BENDER
been captured in Sewer county,
e southern part of the Territory.
officers iu this city forwarded de-
ptiOnS Of the family to the officers
bvier county, and received answers
the old man was undoubtedly the
\ able Kansas butcher. \ photo
& ph was taken of the man, and sent
- bis former neighbors, who pro-
nced it the picture of the elder
der. Since then nothing further
been heard from Kansas, but yes
y by the accused vas brought to this
by Deputy Shcrlt1s J. l.. Foutz
= \. l.. Farnsworth. of Sewer coun-
lnd lodged in the city Jail. BY the
the party reached the City Hall
news that old man
BENDER HAD ARRIVED
circulated through the city, and
gdS tlocked to see the man who had
fed such ii sensation, and about
bm so mucl, had been written. TO
6fy the multitude the jailer re-
Fed the man from the cell in which
bad been placed to the prison hall,
admitted dozens of tie crowd.
old man may be Bender; he looks
inous enough to be that murderer.
Is about five feet eight inches in
u, has Il muscular frame, broad
lldcrS and coarse angular build;
Is slightly StoOp-Shouldered and
hollow breasted; his beard is full,
grizzled and unkempt, grey, ut-
and uncOmbed and hangs in
ied locks about his face and
.iders; he has quick, grey eve,
ueep IN the socket, which he rolls
a"d with crazy, leering stare, c;tuS-
an unpleasant sensation to seize
on whom they are turned. His
PleNlon is fair, but his face and
aS are brOnzed with exposure.
en sitting his hands fall loosely be-
u ms legs, his head is bent for
and the
ci he wears makes him a picture
thlhs but pleasant to contemplate.
Is German of the lowest class,
gives evidence of being most de-
ed. Yesterday afternoon at the
several Germans and speakers OF
ons languages closely questioned
nut his answers generally were
Ineligible. Sometimes he would an
IN good German, hut at other
es he would talk for minutes in a
nage OF gibberish unknown to all
sem. In answer to questions in
man, he said he was native of
p I'emburg, but came to this cOun-
when he was fourteen Years of age,
Is now fifty-four years old. lie
MS name was Johannes Koch,
..h he wrote in "A plain hand, as also
crai o'her words. He stated that he
80 this country on the railroad
New York; he said he had never
married and was farmer. When
gu anything about his arrest, If he
BENDER, if he had ever been in
Sas' he pretended not to under
'"' and would maintain a
NL1.EN, STUBBORN SILENCE,
ms the whole afternoon nc was