Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-01
BLOODY KATE BENDER
FOUND AT LAST.
A Horrible Crime I'm New Mexi-
Reveals Her Whereabouts.

1T. LOUIS, August oU.-Snerln mite
hill, OF Grant county, New Mexico, is in
st. Louis, en- route for Indianapolis,
whittier he is taking bright nine year
old boy, named Josie Granger. The lad
is the nephew OF Bishop Granger, Of In
disnapolis, and the Sheriff is confident
that the boys father, who was the Bish-
ops brother, was murdered at the insti-
CATION OF none other than Kate Bender,
who six years ago was tbs most odious
woman in the United Stats. Ii will re-
quire no effort on the part of the reader
to call to mind the Bender family, who
for several years kept human slaughter
house in the shape OF a little hostelrie
on a lonely Kansas road, about sixty
miles from Fort Scott. The tracing of 4
prominent citizen named York 10 their
house, and the discovery OF his murder,
led TO revelations of the most hor-
rifying character, and the grizzly old
murderer with his inhuman family He'd
in great haste from the wrath which
must follow the discovery OF the grave
ward which they had made all around
their house. Whether they were over
taken and all lynched, or whether they
really escaped and scattered, has always
been an open question. The
most fendish member of the
family was Kate, then a
stout young woman, whose thews had
grown great in welding the hammer
that crushed travellers skulls. The
story which the sheriff of Grant county
tells has reference To Kate. lie says
that William +. Granger, the father oi
the boy now in his charge, married a
wife in California, and when she died
moved with his son William, a weak
minded, cruel sort of a boy, to
Fort Smith, Arkansas. \ second
marriage took place there, and
Josie was the issue. lie took into
his family as nurse and servant young
woman who had been domestic III IA
hotel, and who went by the name OF
Dora Hesser. The family moved TO
Grant county. New Mexico, and Dora
went along. The second wife died, and
on the 18th Of last September Granger
married Dora. Just three weeks after
that he was enticcd into the mountains
bv his own son, William, and II man
named Parson Young, and the boy fired
a bullet from needle gun through the
old mans brain. They dug a hole
Jammed the Body into Heap
And threw it in, then covered 1t up
and stamped the ground level. Going
back home they divided the old mans
possessions, amounting tO about So,OoO,
Young taking one-thlrd, William one
third and the bride of three weeks one
third. The authorities suspected
something wrong, and a Sheriff
went To the Granger house 10 arrest the
trio. He found them all in bed together
and hidden under the bed were the old
mans gray clothes, which Dora had
chopped into pieces. William was
closely questioned and finally ac-
knowledged that his mother and Parson
Young had fixed up the job on
the old man and induced him to
do the killing, the object being one
of plunder. He led the officers To the
scene OF the murder, and the body was
exhumed. Since then the belief has
been growing that Dora is Kate Ben
der. She acknowledges that her name
is Kate, and she knows a great deal
about the Bcnders. A young man who
went to school with Kate Bender when
she was about sixteen years old visited
Dora in Jail, and positively identified
her as Kate. In her trunk was
found about 500 worth Of silver
ware, most OF it marked "Galt House,
Kentucky" The sheriff has her picture,
and it represents woman about thirty
years old, with full, heavy face, large
lower jaw, very small eyes and mouth
of Nirapo