The Red Cloud chief., 1879-10-02
4 NEW MEXICO TRAGEDY.
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I-,-d II" b- the Original kn'- Render.
-pe,iaI To- tn" Cincinnati Euquir.r.
IT. LurI-. August 80 sheriff White
hill If Grant County, New MeNIc". l. ia
-. Lnui-. IA route for indianapolis.
whittier lie J. iakin" a bright 3-year-"li
boy. named josie Granger. Ih" ltd l.
the nephew IF li-iiupGrin@.r"f Indian
apoli-, and the sheriff j. confident that
the huv'- father. who was the Bishops
brother. wa murdered ut the in-tigt-
ton If non" other than nate Bender,
who ~iN years u@o wa the most odipu>
wuman in the United State. II Twill ~
Guirc II" effort un thu part IF the reader
To call Ia mind the Bender family. who
for several wears kept a human -iau"lt-
tcr-huu-r in the ~hap" uf a little hostel
rir on a lonely Kansas road. about a.
milc- from Fort Scott. The tracing II
4 prominent citizen named York {" their
hou-". and the discovery Of hi murder.
l-l To revelations uf the most hoTTiiliu"
character, and the grizzly old murderer
with hi inhuman family il"d in great
haste from the wrath which must follow
the discovery "f the graveyard which
thew had made all around their h"rr~c.
w Iifli't At'F WI y ~
and all knch"l, or whether they
really escaped and scattered. has al
ways been an "pcn question. The most
iirndi>h member Of the family WIS Nate,
then a stout Young woman, Who~" tiI"W>
had crown @rca, in wirldin" the ham
mrr that crushed travellers skulls. The
story which the sheriff "f Grant County
tells ha~ reference Ia Nate. He .ay~
that William +. Granger. the father IF
the boy now in hi charge, married u
wife in California, and when She died
moved with his son William. Il weak
minded, cruel sort of Il boy. Ia Fort
Smith. Ark. \ second marriage took
place there. and Josie was the issue.
lie took into his family ~ nurse and
servant a Young woman who had been Il
domestic in a hotel, and VIII" went 10y
the mans Of Dora lIc--rr. The family
moved la Grant County, New MEXICO,
aud Dora went along. The second wife
died. and ON the 10Th Of last September
Granger married Dora. Just three
weeks after that he was rniiccd into the
mountains by his own >on William, and
Il man named Par>on Young. and th"
boy fired Il bullet from Il mcr'llc-%un
through the old mans brain. They dur
4 hole, jlmmrd the body into Il heap
and threw il in, then covered il up and
stamped the ground level. Coin" back
home they divided tn" old man> pos
sessions. amounting (" about $1,000.
YOUNG taking unc-lhirl. William one
third and the bride of three
weeks "nc-tlIirl. The authorities SIS
pcctcd >"m"tlin" wrong. and Il sheriff
went la the Granger house t" 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 acknowl-
edged that his mother and Par-un Young
had fixed up the job on the old man and
induced him 10 do the killing, the object
being one of plumber. He led the Oil
GERS to the scene of the murder, and the
body was cNhumrd. Since then the he
lief has been growing that Dora ! Nate
Lender She acknowledges that her
ns'nc is Kate. aud she knows 4 dead
ahoI, the Blenders. \ Young man who
went Ia school with Kate Bender when
she was about Ii years old visited bora
in jill, and positively identified her ~
Kate. In her trunk WAS found about
$500 worth of >~ilvcrwarr, most ot il
marked ..Galt House, Kentucky" The
sheriff has her picture. and it represents
Il woman about 81 years old, with full.
heavy face, large lower jaw, vcry small
ewes. and Il mouth uf II vira@u. The
woman * still in Jail, and will at he
tried. Meanwhile, the Sheriff intends
Ia give the little boy Josie, who i very
amiablc. intelligent, and who "ivcS a
graphic account ofthc murder, in charge
of Ei>hpp GRANGER