The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-11
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
ARRssTEp FoR MuRpER,

I aTTeoTe0 T6e muTTfpr or
q. w Dawson. near Harrisburg, Saline Conn-
| ~, Illinois, nine years ago.
SHOT HIM DEAD.
LITTLE FALLS, N. Y, August 9.-Alphoozo
last night. Holden was having improper re-
lations with klock's sister when the deed was
committed.
ANOTHER MURDER
ST. LOUIS, August 9.-Iu a row at the saloon
/ of Joseph Loreng. in Mascontah, III some
| twenty miles east of here, last night, William
| wounded man named Herman. Truslock
WAS arrested, and claims TO have done the
shooting in self-defense.
A DOUBLE MURDFR
LOUISVILLE, August 81 Greensburg spe-
| ciAl 10, the Courier-Jourual says: "In row
| yesterday near Bethel Church. on the Column
| gun. Gowdy's friends in turn shot Cariile in
| two places and stabbed him twice. He is not
| expected to live. All are colored"
A $4,000 DIAMOND ROBBERY.
! UTICA, n. Y, August g. Henry Schuler
representative Of Noah Mitchell, of New York
came TO Utica on Friday with stock of dia-
monds. He left the hotel at O'Clock yester-
| day afternoon, and returned at III in the even
| Ing. This mOrniog he discovered that he had
| been robbed of diamonds valued at sl5,OOg.
NOT THE BENDERs.
OswEGo, Kss., August s.-The old couple
supposed to Bender and wife arrived here
| from Nebraska this morning, and Were ex-
posed in the Court House lor some hours
Many persons went TO see them, and dozens
VINO knew the real Benders pronounce these
people 1mposters. They SherIH thinks they
will be discharged tomorrow.
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
| NEW YORK. August 9-The police Of this city
! and Brooklyn are endeavoring TO find the MUIR
derer OF the man whose remains were found
TO day in the woods near Locust Valley, Long
| Island. The head was lying some ten feet
away from the trunk. The residents remem
Der three men landing from the boat two
weeks ago, and entering the woods, from
which only two emerged. His clothing is OF
| fine texture, and the pockets OF his pantaloons
were turned inside out.
! OLD MRS. BENDER MAKES CONFESSION OF THE
| HORRIBLE CRIMES COMMITTED ON THAT
| FARM"
| FREMONT, Neb., August 3.-There were i'm
| pOrtant developments in the Bender matters
! to-day. Mrs. Bender made a fuu confession OF
der'S farm in 1872 and 1878. She was a widow
when she married McGregor, alias Bender.
| who was widower with four children. They
| migrated from Missouri 10 Labette County,
| Kansas, whore, under the leadership of Kate,
| old Johns dsughter, the murders aud robber
| les began. Mrs. Bender declares she had no
| personal hand in these crimes. The first man
/ killed by them was q man named Brown
| Very soon after the first murder two strangers
| were Rlliled The woman was asked whether
| she remembered about whole family being
/ killed, and said: "les, l do. There was a
| man and his wife and two little girls, who
| drove up to the house one afternoon and
| wanted to spend the night. That night, while
were dropped through the hole. KATE and the
old man were below. The man fought pretty
hard, but they dxed him Next day the two
/ children were buried alive. Old john took
/ one and Kate the other. They hallooed awful,
| but finally stopped, and Kate came in and
| said: The damned brats are all right now" !"
i Soon after this, according TO the woman's
| story, they became frightened and Joined the
| Cherokee or Choctaw Nation. Many further
details were obtained from the woman, and IL
| these are notthe original Benders the fact can
/ easily be established.
MORE ABOUT THE BENDERs
| CHICAGO. III, August tine Tribune
| U irksyile, Neb has written a letter stating
/ that an old couple supposed to be Bender and
his wife, passed Clsrksville, July II. going east
on foot and alone. The same couple passed
west on foot in May, 1879, and stopped at Dun
hams house one night, saying they were go,
| they gave the name of McGregor. The old
| man called the woman Nancy. This gives a
\ new turn to affairs"
/ Bluff Is special says: "The correspondent was
positively informed. to-day that John and
i Kate Bender arrived IN this city from Nebras-
ka Thursday last. They sre supposed to be in
this vicinity waiting for the old folks, of whose
arrest II As thought they are not aware
/ County starts for Nebraska tonight to bring
the Bender family here, where they made
/ are believed TO be the genuine Benders.
| OLD MAN BENDER AND HIS WIFE CONFESS
/ CHICAGO, August CAN Omaha special to
Il the Tribune says: "a former resident of
Jacksonville. H., has identified the two pris-
II
| McGregors, OF Jacksonville. The man says
he knew them there hard characters, aud
| that he left Illinois for Kansas with them in a
/ wagon team, and that McGregor, who 1t IS
/ thought TO be identical with Benders, went
| to Labette County" The Tribune's Spring
| field, ILL.,, special, says: THE records OF the
County show that In 1871 Alexander McGregor
4 obtained a marriage license for himself aud
Nancy Ellington, both of them inmates OF the
/ Poor House. They were married and remained
i a charge upon the Parish until the August fol-
/ lowing, when they disappeared"
eIsi 5o % me Tr9SSn sa1s T aS SNMso
Bender was visited in the jail at Fremont by
an Omaha reporter. 10 whom she said: The
| husband was in Illinois, on their farm near
Jacksonville. The victim asked
for lodging an. and supper, and
| exhibited considerable money. While eating
| supper Bender cut his head in two from be-
| through a trap door, arranged by Bender, who
/ got the money. The corpse was buried next
morning back OF the house. A few weeks
after this they went TO Iowa, remaining eight
months. They then went to Indiana-liviDg on
the murdered mans money. They went to
| Kansas, where Bender's children by the 1rst
/ wife, John and Kate, were living together
with cousin, Maggie They Kept resort tor
Tn SS al, nu i,tad 10 n,rrarS 1-;or -, ehe
old folks arrival. but in the course of time old
Bender arranged a trap-door, and then the
time had a man In bed with her, and she cut
his throat and slept until morning beside the
1 corpse. HIS money was dlf1QeQ. SDe never
4 injured horse thieves and cut-throats who
| came TO her house, but entertained them well
/ with her cousin Maggie. No murders were
committed by the family after they
/ fed from Kansas" Old Bender has
| confessed, believing that the old woman has
escaped. His story tallies with his wife's
i exactly. He relates the history OF the whole
i family, and their crimes. A Sheriff from Kan
i sas is now probably at Lincoln obtaining a
requisttion from the Governor, and win be at
| Fremont tomorrow" nQ1 -fHiL
4 ApRrST oy ROTD or-rrAws
1 CHICAGO, August 6-An Omaha special TO
1 the Tribune says that "Big Nose George, " alias
i George Parrott, one of the Elk Mountain rob-
bers who, about two years ago, laid q plan to
ditch and ROB an Union Pacific passenger train
near Carbon, Wyoming, and who killed Dep
| uty Sheriff Widdowfield and Tip
1 Vincent, the scouts who tracked
them to Elk Mountain, was brought
to Omaha, this morning, down the Missouri
/ River. from Miles City, Montana, where he
was recently caught by Deputy United States
4 Marshal Irwin. He was in charge of Sheriff
/ Rankin, of Rawling, Wy, who left for home
/ with him on the noon train. The chances
/ are that the friends of Widdowheled and VIM
cent, at Carbon, will lynch him, as they did
/ Dutch Charley. The arrest OF Harrott will
| probably break up the contemplated organiz-
alton of a band of outlaws who, it is thought,
| were preparing to raid the Union Pacific and
| other roads, and rob stage coaches.
WOMAN KILLS HERSELF AND NINE CHILDREN.
| AxERrcrrs Wehster County Ga August a.