Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-10-02
KATE BENDER POUND.
Horrible Crime in new VI exieo Reveals
Her Whereabouts.

view sxleY Is
Her Whereabouts.
Sheriff Whitehill, Of Grant county.
New Mexico. was recently I'm ST. Louis.
en- route for indianapolis, where he was
taking n bright ninc-yea old boy,
named Josie Grtnger. The Ina is the
nephew Of Bishop Granger. Of Indiannp-
oils. and the sheriff Is confident that the
boys father, who was the bishops
brother, was murdered at the instiga-
ton Of none other than Kate Bender.
who six years ngo was the most odious
woman in tne United States. II will re-
quire no effort on the part Of the reader
70 call to mind the Bender family. who
Tor several years kcpta human slaughter
house in the shape Of n little hOsteiric on
lonely Kansas road, about sixty milo.
from Fort Scott. The tra ing Of a prom
incnt citizen named York 20 their house.
and the discovery of his murder. led 10
revelations Of the most horrifying char
actcr, and the grizzly old murderer with
his inhuman family fed in great haste
from the wrath which must follow the
discovery Of the graveyard which they
had made all around their home.
Whether they were overiakcn and all
lynchcd, or whether they really escaped
and scattered. has always been an Opcn
question. The most iicndish member Of
the family was Kate, then 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 refer
cnce to Kate. He says that William +.
Granger. the father Of the boy in his
charge, married y wiic in California. and
when she died moved with his son viii
liam, weak minded, cruel sort of a boy.
10 Fort Smith. Ark. A second marriage
took place there, and Josie was the IS
sue. Mr.. Granger took into his family
~ nurse and servant young woman
who had been domestic in a hotel. and
who went by the name Of Dora lIcsscr.
The family moved 10 Grant county, NcF
Mexico, and Dora wcat along. The
second wife died, and about "a year ago
Granger married Dora. Just three
weeks aGer he was cnticcd into the
mountains by his own son, William. and
a man named Young. and the boy fred
a bullet fom a needle gun through the
old man brain. They dug a hole.
jammcd sac body into heap and threw
it in. then covered II up and stamped the
ground level Going back home they
divided the did mans possessions.
amounting 10 bout 5000. Young tax
ing oHF-il IIN, " lIiiAfu nuf-tIllrQ ana
the bride onc-third. The authorities
suspected something wrong, and shcr-
in went 80 the Granger house TO arrest
the trio. lie found them all in bed, and
hidden under one bed were the old mans
gray clothes. which Dora had chopped
into pieces William was closely qucs-
toned and finally ackndw lodged that his
stepmotheT and Young lisId fixed up the
Job on the old man and fpduccl him to
do the killing, the object being one Of
plunder He Jed the oiiiccra 10 the scene
Of the murder. and tire bady was ex-
humcd. Since then the bAicf mas been
growing that Dora i Kat1Bcn =. She
ACKNOWLEDGED that her name i. Kate.
and she knows deal nbAi the Ben
dors. 4 Young man who W - school
with Kate Il ndcr when shG bout
sixteen years old visited II II.
and positively identified her
her trunk was found about
of si.yCrwar are. most of il mq
House, Kentucky The sh
picture and IL represents v
thirty years old. with fu,
large lower jaw. very sm
mouth uf virago. Th,
in Jail. and will'bc
the sheriff intends ID
Josie. who is very a
gent child. and who q
count of the murd
Bishop Granger.