Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-12-05

THE BENpER FIEsDs. AND m,

Ihf bENbER fiESDs, AND now THEY
hsTFRIOUsLN DIsAPPKARKD
one OF the blacklist of all crimes il kDowt,
a. The Bsnocr tragedy OF Kansas. Tue Ben
der family was resident In Montgomery
county. Kansas. the family consisted az sOll
Man Bender. his wife, his daughter Kate
ami DIS son, young man who il 10 some con
ldersble extent acquitted In The public mind
ei huch lhat u charged without distinction
20 has father, mother and sister The crime
ol inc crowd consisted OF numbering from
mercenary mo,ives. and burying upon their
NaNSiat f'rtmiscS. NOT fewer than nine per-
soiis, all oi them travellers. and some 81 them
citizens ol at least local prominence. Though
huihn,f o. sudden diSappcaranccS'' had
,cSurrvd IN Montgomery county. suspicion
had not settled on the Renders until afier pr
York, brother of 4. NJ. York. The eNposer Of
oi ex-senator f"meroy. had suddenly ..coDs
"a, missing and when suspicion had finally
fallen upon the family every member OF me
same simultaneously disappeared since their
Sisssl l'earance no trace OF them has ever been
found, Notwithstanding the most dilic.nt
search and the most intricate plans and plof-
ungS of detective bureaus the country over
All This. until within "A few DAYS has been
accepted a. the essential substance OF what
could be discovered or explained rflative ~
th' procedure. Very lately, however an M
tNleclsu solution of the matter has been
oHcred, thOugh a. Vet ~ must not d. accprted
a. conclusive. Facts have come To iigbt
which point very strongly To- the superstition
I . NIsiiah't committee went ID the Ben
Ger mouse placed them I'm their own wagon.
drawn by their own horses and convened
ihem 10 "a secluded spot not far OF on the
-'rt VI - AlteF lrhnus ana inerc pNtnrtal A
iuiI confession from them Of all their crimes
down to the smallest details After this tbs
TENDERS were never heard of, aud n Il more
man probable that their bodies werecarefullv
concealed. 10 will b. remembered thar a
lew days alter this a wagon was discovered
near thls point. Ia which n pair of horses
We're ued, which was known 10 he Bensier's
property. This was soon followed by The
announcement that the home of Blenders had
been deserted. Ii il said, too. that Goyernor
Osborn was secretly appraised OF all these
lacts, which viii account for the fact that on
the part OF The Kansas authorities no syste-
matte effort has ever been made Ia appr,hend
ule BenderS- and stories OF their capture else
where have only excited an i1crt~lulous
smile at the state capital Boston HeyuJd
A SAD ACCIDENr.-The Richmond Chris
nda Advocate publishes the following re-
celved by private telegram from Missouri.
MIS- Mcfarland being a sister OF Gen. Jubal
A Early: by the accidental upSctiing of a
coal-oil lamp AT the parsonage I'm the evening
O'Clock, brother Mcfarland and family
were horribly burned. His daughter Dixie,
aged nfteen years, is dead, and Mary. aged
seventeen. the physicians say cannot live.
lSnce dead Brother Mcfarland, in trying
To save his CHI ,ldren, was badly burned. Two
or Three OF his fingers have been ampufated
lie Is suffering greatly. Mrs. Mcfarland and
their little son, both burned, although suffer
lng greatly, are not thought to be dangerous,
All that physicians aud kind friends could
do has been and il still being done for them
The accident has cast gloom over our entirs
community