The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1886-06-06
SUSIE RArn
ms Eventual Career Of q Former N0eo-
xtoas FGmAlO R<SIaaR1 o. nxs USaaiy.

lr.Atss loA t<nalr Who Slii lie rsasesn-
b. red by ali oil residents % EIko San-
~. She re ided iur q nau-b<r " ys-n
~ Carlin. Sas eouneotrt Eth .
band of eattlr and honse IhisNS SkiSa
latest. Il this section in lS6J .sl iSiO.
and Vas for severL moEthsA pa~o.sT
la the D 4ty jail here GU a ch-rsv of
cattle Ht-Hllng. She Leaf here. il NC ~
msmbSr correctly. sometime IA 1871. ami
rent 10 Colorado With her paramSaE,
Captain Payn-, who VAS NiterSa,ds
Ssut ~ the peniteniiary from that then
Territory for some ohrpSe- PrU5aGy
hose theft. OF her subseqa-u: e-rres,
the ChieftAin says:
..Eor some time past efots have
been made to obtain something II the
lie aud character OF the woman known
~ Sue Y"nkers. now eonineI IN the
county jail charged with the murder OF
Gro.ge Back in this city August 18th,
1874. Ulon inyesiig ton We hnl th.t
she Is not II native Of America. but Was
born in S.uth Wales GU the llih daY Of
September, 1874. aad her maiden uaiue
was Susan warield. II is not known
At what nGe sue came to this country,
but ns she has relatives i'll New Orleaus,
It is believed that she Landed there
aiout the beginning Of the late war,
.pl .1n, affair ShA nuFFfel = man
BY the name 81 Thus. ID. Eaper. with
whom sue lived until about the year
1870, when some trouble occurred
which Compelled X ,per to ABANDON his
family mp. a~rrntly forever. at hast in "A
lett-r TO his wife lie ~ expressed him
self. stating that il was pretty hard for
. man to have TO leave his children for
ever On account OF d--n thieves" II
a.sr appears that when this trouble &C
cured. the Raprrs acre living at EIko,
Nevada, at which time they had three
children, the ul lest one named Robert,
having afterwards died at n place called
Sheridan. From 1870 To 1875, We fail
t. learn anything of her whereabouts
during that time. II WAS i'll 1872 that
the Bender IN urders we've committed, at
which time Airs. Yunkers would have
been - years Of age, she being IL years
old now. That age corresponds with
the age of the notorious Kate Bender
y, that time, hut ". A. Graham. who
was u deputy sheriff under Major Ban
ney. Sheriff of Cherokee county at that
time, says that he knew Kate Bender
we'll, aud carried her photograph for
four years. aud that Mrs. YOnkers is
n thing like Kate Bender, eth r in
form or in features, aud We think that
Mr.. Graham Is correct, as Kate had
very black eyes, while Mrs. Yonkcrs'
eyes are Of a cold, glittering, gray color.
Among some OF the relics capture d in
possession of the prisoner, is a horrible
picture or photograph taken both from
life aud death. The picture represents
q coffin with n big white cross On thu
lii. containing the corps OF a woman, In
n standing position, with Mrs. foukrrs
dressed in deep mourning standing OH
Que side aud IN elegantly dressed gem
tleInan on the other side; what this pic
ture represents is unknown, but it GER
tainly presents n CHASTITY sight, and
msk-s one shudder to ooh at il. Our
heroine next turned up at South Pueblo
ia the year 1875, under the mime of
Snsie Some, which name she assu ned
until 1882. when she became the wife of
jack YJuukers formerly Of Indepen.
dence county, Ark. In 1879 she was at
Alamosa, Colorado. In the year 1881
Me run y stage or hack line from Cone
jos to San Antonio. Colorado aud du-
ring that same year she moved to Rio
AIribn county. New Mexico. and from
thence to EsparOla. In June 1882 she
bought ~ ball OF liquors OF SAutias 30 Bd-
en- nt Albuquerque. under the lame o.
Susie ioukers and took out q saloon IL
cense to sell liquors at Wallace. where
BUG au U utE uuNDhlI IOlAtIs Cfhllh
ed until about July 1883, when they
loaded up their stock OF liquors and
went over Into Lincoln county. While
on the road near the Alknli wells she
says that Yonkers died VITA the small
pox aud she had to dig him II grave and
bury him alone. II u here that she
fell in with George Black. Who ia sup
posed to have been n witness to the fun
erHl services or the tragedy or whatever
II may have been. On arriving at
White Oaks she again assumed the
name OF Stone, and told that she Ind
lost her brother at the Alkali wells with
small. poI, but as there was no small
poI in this part Of the country at that
time her story WAS regarded with con-
siderable suspicion. and more so when
che afterwards Said no man was her
husband, and again assumed the name
OF Yonkcrs. About This time her two
sons joined her and they all followed
JAnching until the following year, when
she came to Socoro with Black and
they opened up a saloon at the Walker
House. Soon after their arrival here
she obtained o bill Of sale Of Blacks
team, got him 10 arsiPn ovcr to her his
Lincoln county Warrants and every tau.
Rible thing Of value. and on the 10Th
day OF August she succeeded in getting
Bl EEK TO deed her his rnnch. On the
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