The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-11-07

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tne kansas family OF murderer. Ms.
Davis, IN alleging Mrs. Monroe to he
the Old Mrs. Bender, admits herself RI
De Aate Bender, and on her own al
mission, viii be made to suffer in com.
pany with her mother, providing thai
mis-. Monroe Is proven to be the notori.
Gus murderess.
The deputy sheriff who accompanied
Michigan, for several DAYS dnrint, Mt
DAVIS trial for grand larceny. await
ing the conclusion that they might i'm
medlately start for Labefte county.
Kansas, where they will be tried for
the countless murders of which they
are supposed to be the Perpetrators
Inc trial of Mrs. Davis was concluded
on OCTOBER %, resulting in the dis
charge OF Mrs. Davis, and the detectives
lost no tlme In securing a requisition
anu ieI1 Mics at the earliest OppoFtu-
nlIy, arriving IN Chicago. and leaving
that place on the Chicago & Alton
last night.
AS soon as the train stopped in the
Union depot this morning the two
women were assisted to ali4ht by the
deputy sheriff and made their Nav at
once TO the breakfast room, where thew
renamed until the departure of the
Missouri Pacific train for Kansas CITY.
DearIng them with it on their way TO
Emporla. Kansas, where their trial is
to take place. While awaiting their
tllal they VIII be locked up in the Wich-
ita jail. 49, v ~
Inc Two women were dressed in
plain dark clothes and both wore black
Velis which were pulled down over
cher faces. During the entire time
they remained at the depot, as for re-
plying, to any question put to them,
they absolutely refused to make any
answer whatever and maintained a
rigld silence and were evidently heart
lily glad when called upon a few min
uteS later to board the train for their
journey west. to escape their question
ers. AT every previous town at which
the Blenders stopped on their way to
Kansas, they maintained the same ret
ieence they evinced at the Union
depot.
A special to the Republic from Sc
dana, Missouri, says: Deputy Sheriff
DICK OF Labette county. Kansas,
passed through Sedalia this afternoon
en- route to Parsons, Kansas, with the
Two female prisoners who are thought
to be the notorious Mrs. Bender and
Kate Bender. Mr.. Dick was living in
La0ette county at the time of
the Bender murders and knew the Ben
der family well. He says there is no
doubt he has the right parties. The
narrative OF their arrest at Niles, Mich
lgan, as related by him, discloses one of
the neatest pieces of detective work
ever perpetrated by woman. The ar
rest was at the instance of Mrs Albert
McCann of Mcpherson, Kansas. If
these parties are convicted she will get
SIO,OOO, but 1t was not money she was
after; she worked for revenge. Her
father, John NJ. Sanford, was muir
dered by the Benders at Windsor, Can
ala. twenty years ago. They fled the
country and located on a farm in La
bette coutnV, Kansas, four miles south.
west of where Parsons now stands
where they kept tavern" and
did their deadly work. When the
Renders murdered Mr.. Sanford, Mrs
McCaDn, his daughter was about four
years old. When she grew up and was
married she settled in Mcpherson
Kansas. Some years ago dissolutE
woman came there with her husband
and was taken sick at her house. She
believed she was dying and learned
who Mrs. Mccain was. On her sup
posed deathbed, the woman confessed
to Mrs. Mccain that she helped to Kill
her father when Mrs. McCann was &
child While Mrs. Mccain was look
ing up the particulars OF her fathers
death the sick woman recoved and sud
denly disappeared one night with hel
husband. 1t was several years before
Mrs. Mccain got q clue to their where
abouts, but she finally located her Al
Niles, Mich. Mrs. Mccain went there
last April. When she had her plans
perfected she notified the Kansas Off
GERS and presented proofs satisfactory
to them that the women were the Ions
lost BeUders, and requisition was
made for them. Such is the story OF
Mrs. McCann, who caused the arrest
of these supposed murderers.