The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-26
He Is WAITING.
RequfsftiOn Papers For Benders
Not Presented.
Attorney Burton Awaiting Re-
turn Of the Governor.
MANY ARE CREDULOUS.
Think the Blenders We're Killed
Long Ago.
Hrs. Ayers Claims Spite Work
Is Behind Investigation.
MANY ARE CREDULOUs.

"A dispatch to the Denver News from
Fort Collins says:
The News correspondent this evening
discovered Edward L Burton. the law
yer from Oswego. Kan, who is to take
the initiative in the arrest OF the alleged
Blenders. Mr. Burton is accompanied
by E. F. burst, a detective from Par
sons. Kan. These gentlemen are max
ing quiet but diligent Investigations IN
reference 10 the parties under sus-
pieion.
Mr.. Burton said that there was no
doubt that the requisitiOn from the
governor of Kansas would be acted
upon as soon as it was recognized by
the governor of Colorado and warrants
issued for the arrest OF the suspected
parties He says that the requlsltlon
papers were carefully looked over "
Governor Stanley, and also oy the a.
1Orney general OF Kansas DeIOle ne re-
and they both pronounced them 70 oe
properly drawn up and without d nav
A1r. Burton says that ne Is CONS -
move deliberately, and when every tnlil@
IL ready he VIII act He did not ln1enu
that the matter should be MADE puoAc
from the governors office IN Iope1a,
and made a request that Ine matter OS
kent quiet but in some way II leaked
out and got into the dispatches. re
says he is not at all worried Dy tne
publicity as the parties would only
convict themselves if they should ma Ae
an attempt to escape He viii probaply
go to Denver tomorrow ana VIII see
the governor, and If the governor y
not there viii take a pleasure trlD 70
Colorado Springs in the meantime ana
wait until the governor returns 70 MS
office
Mr.. Burton says that although many
years have elapsed since the discovery
Of the Bender murders, the Ieeilhs IN
the vicinity is still very strons. / e., e.
he says thar If the criminals should be
arrested and taken back there they
would have the fairest kind Of trial
Mr. burst says that he is one of the
parties who assisted in eNhuming tne
bodies of the persons murdered at the
Bender ranch, and stood guard over
them until they were disposed OF he
is assisting Mr.. Burton in his 1nVestl-
cations.
Mrs. Ayers has lived something of q
checkered life. as is known here, but
the Reeds have borne a good reputa-
ton since they have lived here and
have a reputation of being extremely
benevolent and kind hearted They
have many friends here. Mrs Frank
Ayers left the home of her parents this
morning with a team for the sawmiH
near Manhattan, with a load Of lun-
Der. Since her husband left her in des-
titute circumstances she has made
living by hauling lumber from the luns-
her camps around Manhattan. some 40
or so miles away. to Fort Collins, where
she sells it at an advance. The trips
take her about four days each and go
ing and coming she does not stop at
the road houses. but camps out by the
roadside with her team. She has one
horse of her own, and the other she
gets from her step-father. C.. w. Reed.
With these she has managed to make a
living by hauling lumber for the past
year.
Mrs. Ayers was in Fort Collins for
several days during the early part of
the week and went shopping about
town and discussed freely the subject
Of Ayers allegations against her and
her family She says that it is a piece
Of pure persecution on the part Of
Ayers. She says that Ayers is afraid
to come home while she is in these
parts and is trying to brighten her
away If he succeeds in this he win
come back and take possession of his
property at Owl canon and Manhattan
which he decided over to his sister Just
before leaving She says that the mem
bers of the Ayers family now at Owl
canon say that if this scheme does not
work. they have another one which
win.
she says that Ayers has said that he
viii give Mrs. Reed no more peace as
long as she lives, having evidently con-
ceived a great enmity toward her. Mrs.
Ayers has two daughters. one of them
married to Sam Newton. who lives n
the mountains west of here. The other
daughter is living in Salt Lake City, SO
It is said
Mr.. Reed. the stepfather. is about so
from Kentucky originally. and to have
crossed the plains when Mrs Ayers
was only three or four years old. He
says that they went to the Black Hills
Montana and Utah. where they ran
road ranches from time to time When
they arrived here they came in a
prairie schooner from the west No
representative of the Kansas an
thOrities has yet made his appearances
IN Fort Collins. lit is surprised that
they VIII arrive this evening or tomor-
row The parties who signed the aft
daVits upon which the requisitiOn of
the governor of Kansas was issued are
supposed to be the people who during
last winter and spring. were seen here /
evidently on some mysterious business.
Tt is said that one day last winter
two men called at the Reed house
upon the ostensible errand of looking
the premises over with the idea of D11r-
chasing them They were shown
through the house, but their only OBJ
ject seemed to be a close examination
of all photographs to be seen hanging
upon the walls or lying on the table.
They left and no more was seen of
them nor was anything said further in
reference to the sale of the property
It IS supposed that they were de-
TALKS ABOUT BENDER.
Fort Lupton, Col July 26.-E. B. Barnes.
the local agent for the Colorado Tele-
rhone company. was located at Cherry
enworth, Lawrence & Galveston railroad.
in the early los. and was intimately ac-
1la4Lll0u WIN the circumstances attend
SnE the Bender tragedy Cherryvale is
eight miles from where the Benders COM
n1tted their crimes Mr. Barnes at that
time was correspondent for the Kansas
CITY Times and was present when the
bodies were discovered He was PERSONAL
" acquainted with DR.. York. who was
killed by the Benders. and his brother.
Senator York of Independence, Kan. IS
the one who started the veStigatfOn
which disclosed the crimes.
Mt Barnes is positive that the Fort
Collins suspects are not the Beuders for
several reasons About the time the dis
covery was made the Blenders left that
country, headed for the Indian TerritOr-Y
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