Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-12-25
ANOTHER BENDER FAMILY.

The town Of Anderson, Indiana, has .
Bender family, but their name is MaWson.
We condense from the Cincinnati Gazette.
On the 21st of October it was given out
that dead man had heen found in we'll
on Mawson's farm, which lies just outside
the town. Tne farm is .llet out-of-the-
way place, and has been for sometime
called murderer ground On investi.
CATION the body found in the well proved
to be that OF Albert Mawson, young
man, member of the family residing on
the farm. Last July this young man dis
appeared from home, and his mother
aroused the suspicious of the nelghbors Dy
volunteering explanations OF his absence
at all times and places W hen she could hnd
au opportunity, and without waiting to
be asked about him. These explanations
differed from each other Sometimes sne
said he had gone to England. sometimes
California, sometimes 10 Cleveland, ONO.
A few weeks later she reported the deaIh
of her son, alleging that certain OF her
neighbors had killed him, and that he
would yet be found in the forests on her
older sons or her own place Then she
told one William Fassets, teamster Tor
merly IN her employ, that the Lalns had
certainly murdered Albert. and "burleo
his body"in Smiths woods, ''or in vel"
and that the body would certainly be
found in a few days. Little attention,
however. was paid to these eccentricities:
People only remarked that Aunt Nancy
was worried about something, and looked
haggard. Then one day she asked Mr..
Null to go with her and see what flno
stock well she had on her farm. The well
was covered with boards, which she par
TALLY removed, and, stirring the water
with pole, said ''see how clear the water
is" M. Null noticed that some stones
had BEN thrown into the well, ana
thought he saw stains of blood on some
of the covering boards. This excited his
curiosity, and, looking further he observ-
ed a trail where some heavy body had been
dragged to the well across the field. On
some stones in the trail there was blood.
A terrible stencil was also noticed about
the well. Null thought some deal AMI
NAL had been thrown into the well, and
was shout to examine more closely, when
Mrs. Mawson told him she did not want
the well examined till her son Thomas
was sent for, as she feared some murdered
person had been thrown IN there, ana IL
might be her son Albert.
Arrangements were then made with one
Hoppas, a son in law of Mrs. Mawson's,
to clean out the we'll. The body WAS
found, and before Mrs Mawson had seen
it she declared, in fit of weeping lit was
her Abby"
The body was identified, and the evi>
dence before the c0r0ner's jury LED 10 the
arrest of the .anshnr and her snn- After
the arrest the mother requested to be taken
to her home for some personal comforts.
which was granted. Soon after they
reached the Jail the mother became sud~
denly i'll. The physician called IN to see
her; said she was suffering from arsenic
poison. In few hours she died. The
other son and the daughter aud her nus
band paid no attention to the ann0unce<
ment Of her death. =.
Some years ago man named White was
hanged for killing man on the Mawsofa
farm, Afterwards Mawson, father Of ALI
bert and husband Of the suicide, on his
death bed confessed himself guilty OF the
crime for which White was hanged. Old
Mawson himself died SO suddenly and
strangely that many suspected foul play
in his case. Then little later an Old
miser who lived alone on an adjacent farm
suddenly disappeared, and was afterwards
found dead. He was known to haye ac$
cumulated considerable money, but none
was found about his house. Eight months
ago daughter of Mrs. Mawson MS murder
ed her illegitimate child near the spot
where Albert's body was found.
This last horrible deed appears to have
been done as q means OF restoring prop
erty to the mother, she having some time
since decided all her property to Albert.
At least this was the explanation consld-
cred most probably correct, as the son was
unwilling to convey the property back to
he. and they had frequent disputes about
It. Altogether the case, and the other
horrors that have come to light in connec-
ton with it, are only equalled by the NO.
torious Bender family of Kansas.