The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-17
The Prisoners Deny Having
Ever Made any Con-
foosion.
Shouts Of Hang Him, Bring
. Rope" Etc., ut Fort
Scott.
Former NeiRhbors and AQcuatnt
suoos OF the Blenders at Par
sons Pail TO Identify Them.
Arrival 1t 0eWego-Lodged in jail
-Visitoro-In,ervieWs--Thr eats
Of Lynching, BIC.

Almost Conclusive Evidence that
the Prisoners are not the
Benders. E.
Spectral dispatch 10 the BAzoo-
OswEaO, August 9.
About the only topic of conversation in
Osvego, and, in fact, ell through Labet,e
county, is the parties arrested fe~ dsys
since by the .uthorities Of Fremont, Ne
braska.
Sheriff Bender, Of this county, Who ven,
after the prisoners, arrived here on the NJ :,
K. 4 +. tr.,n this morning, at one O'Clock,
and Notwithstanding the hour, some
wsre present to catch glimpse Of
THE NOTORIOUS PERsoNAGEs.
The BAzoo's representative met the party
ct Fort 6coti and accompanied them TO
this point, and on The trip down learned
considerable Of interest. The man whom
they claim ID old man Bender, is in the
neighborhood Of sixty years Of age. wears
ahaegy gray beard unkemp, hair, end has
the ssiG finger the original Bender 10 ssid
to have he'd. He looks a though he had
sssn hard nmes. He 10 cullen and morose,
and 10 averss to being interviewed. When
hs can be engaged in conversation. be in
tsrspersss osths quite freely, and il most
bitter In his deuunciaiioD Of mankind in
general and the authorities OF Lsbette
county 10 particular. He Is man whom
Won would, from his looks, feel like charg-
ing with
ALMOST ANY CRIME.
The woman is probably forty Eve years
Of sge, il large and masculine, having the
sppearsnce of an old has Who wonld stoop
70 crime of any description.
Sheriff Bender informed me that he ar
rived in Fremont Friday evening. and i'm
mediasely visited the prisoners 10 the Jail.
When be informed them that he had come
for The purpose Of removing them to Kan
80, The old man raved. and swore he would
never BE- taken there alive. To prevent
trouble. be was then informed that he was
70 b removed To Jacksonville. ILL.,. to ans
yer The charge Of murder committed there
yeam ago. This seemed TO pacify him,
and
Foa THE TINE BEING HE WAS QUIET.
Saturday afternoon 1t one o'clock. Sher.
81 Bender and Daniel Condor. the latter
keiae the sentleman who made the arrest
On the 22d Of July, took the Prisone" from
TIE Fsemont jill, and placing them in .
Unioa Pac,6c train, vent 70 Omaha There
they crossed over to Council Bluff. and at
Rse o'clock they boarded the Wabash fast
express and started for Ksnsas City, where
they arrived 1t eight O'Clock yesterday
morning.
Their coming had been anticipated, and
when the train pulled up At the depot the
crowd Of spectators va amply immense.
They crowded and j.mmed until it WA a.
most impossible to make way through
They were finally
TAKEN 10 THE STATION,
where they were visited BY hundreds. and
iuterviewed 1t the hands of the Kansaa
City reporter. Al $40 yesterday after
noon, Me~ra. Bender and Condor placed
their charges on the Gulf train and started
for Fort Scott. At every station the plat
form and adjoining space Wa packed viii
humanity, and whes Fort Scott junction
vas reached there were hundreds Of citizen'
present The prisoners were placed in tb'
auoking car, and slmost in an instant j
- filled with those anxisus to see, unit
is ~ inpossible to get through the aisle
Boys and men climed upon seats, and sucl
. shoving and surging he's seldom beer
witnessed. They all remained in the ca
until the down town depot was reache
where
STILL LARGER NUMBER WAS PRDENl
After . brief period, Conductor Fnlle
shouted "all aboard" and the car "a
cleared - il BY magic.
The BAzoo representative then pro
ceeded to get IN ri
work, and dropped into . seat BY the cid
If The old woman. She wss dressed quit
commonly. and sported large sun bonnie
With which she tr,ed to conceal her fec
She va not handcu6ed, but the old mai
Who occupied the next seat back, wore
pair Of bracelets, and was closely watchs
by Condor. Both were still laboring u
der the impression that they were he'll
taken to Illinois. When the old man y
ssked II he did not want to 70 to Kans'
be replied:
''No, fLL NEVER GO THERE ALIVE"
He bad been informed that Kate o
John Bender had been srrested By \
Condor, and il vss this circumsfance Il
msde him afraid 70 visit Labette coun
He said Kate had told . lot Of id
about hun, and the people there Vol
hang him in Eve minutea.
In conversation With your reporter
woman stated that her husbands M
vs. Alex. Mc(iregor. and hers Nancy ]
Greeor. He Wss bern in New York IT.
while she first saw the light Of day
southesn Iilinoia, in what 10 known
Exyps. She lived there until she va
teen yean old. and
~urv prroveD m ,rrsaoYyRI.
She subsequently removed back
Illinois, and Was married 70 AcGrego
that stste, bat in what year che did
know. This u The Story abe
your reportes, bat TO othem she ststet
AsAsssatly. Condor says abe b
d-dest liar b ever met
When asked shout The cohesion
vess rsposssd 70 hsvs made. the old
nan deoisd most emphstically that
ever did make anything a tie kind.
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