Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-07
ANOTHER SENSATION.
The Alleged Arrest OF Bender, the Kari!
sas Murderer.

ST. Louis, April 6-The police authori
ties believe they have at last captured old
man Bender, the Kansas butcher. The ar
rest was male last Tuesday afternoon, but
the police have kept the affair secret. The
circumstances OF the arrest are as follows:
Hermann II. Green, n German, who resides
in this city, was formerly private i'll the
Sixth infantry. and in 1871 was stationed
at Usage Station, Kansas, seven miles from
which John Bender and family resided,
He saw Bender several times every week.
as the latter brought his vegetables to
camp TO sci, and knew him we'll.
Last Monday he saw three men in Skif
on the river in North st. Louis, one OF
whom he declared tG lie John Bender. The
police were notified and the.men were ar
rested. Two of them gave the names Qt
August klOOtS and Charles HammGfd.
The man supposed to he Bender gave his
name as John Bealis. His two companions
stated that they lived in Usage Co., Mo,
and had come down the river intending to
go to Arkansas.
They met the old man who called him
self Baelis few weeks ago. and he wanted
TO accompany them, and finally they con-
sentcd. Kloots and Hammond were re-
leased. Baclis has been held in confine-
ment since. Green is man OF good char
acter and antecedentS, and the police be-
lieye his statement. Farther developments
are expected.
Some eight years ago the press of the
whole United States was filled with ac-
counts of murders committed at Cherry
Vale, Montgomery county, Kansas,
and in Labette county, same
many people this man and that fiend in
carnate, his daughter Kate, killed; and in
all probability it snever will be known.
Kate seems to have been the prime devil in
all the crimes, though, rs the stories go, the
old man generally struck the fatal blow.
They kept little grocery and grog shop
in lonely spot on u road that was travelled
by many. Their favorite method was
to cntiCe travellers and strangers into
their den. Kate did this part
of the business. Once inside, the
winsome Katie would toy with the vic
tim, or allow the doomed man TO toy with
her until she could manage to seat him
near canvas screen, or partition that
divided the room, behind which the old
man was stationed with all ak. Then Kate
would suddenly press the strangers head
back against the canvas, and the old fend
would knock his brains out
More people than have ever been counted
have been traced to this lonely dog
gerry, and nothing more ever heard OF
them. In 1874, DR.. York, a prominent
of Topeka, Kansas, turned up
His brother, State Senator York,
who will he remembered for the manner in
which he exposed United States Senator
Pomeroy's alleged bribery raScality in the
Kansas Legislature-traced the Doctor 70
Bender's place. Just when the whole
family were to be arrested they dis
appeared from there. The last seen
OF them was when some one saw
them drive off in a covered wagon
one moonlight night Since then they
hsve, as was claimed. been traced to and
arrested in every quarter OF the country.
The general belief among many has been
that the whole family were hung by vigi.
lantes. led by Senator York, but nothing
authentic has ever been known of them.