The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-07-16
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Man On Death Bed Confesses That Fie
Was One Of the igilance Committee ".
That DIFFERENTIATED Murderers. *:%.
CNagYork Times

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Inc story from Chicago printed
~ yestsro "a giving the con-
.e ss,N "a OF t sdeser&e Evans DoMnar
t "a ne was ora vigilance commit
lee which .ran liySd and killed the
notorious 4 he sale s family, II his death
bed tale naanyssbe credited, will s,pIit
an end TO- spseG3ation as to the!Sfate
ot .CEe- arcn nE5ll ,s+stStl%l ~
4 Inc bender mArders In the shanty
near SCSh fs In 1873 have
peentre ~! uaitetiSsonniy by the Guinness
murders bronkAt to light last May
Inc BendSSrS sshusband and wife,
one son and ~ slaughter, Kate, ran
the shan q TX ssIl!s9t CaeHryyale as an
lnn' kateS3sWasSkknoWn also as jos
mamma G. Slne ieved to have been
the director df#all OF the murders.
She posed ssatsmedium and adver-
used In papersaaR Kansas as being
ape 20 cure eEatalsstsorts OF malaties,
1ncludlng, as ONE or her advertise
ments read, tine cure of deaf and
dumbness +" - - ~ r.. -: {
In the country int " around Cherryyale
Kate Bender Ter, Z7'T ets by men and
women. stalWFafL, domineering In
neF manner, and AFRAID of nothing
that watkeSi5rtarI :efawle0,T She also
itish'ehed the tarlhlng Iolk Ipy heF
alleged W1tchcraft She made POI:
tlons from roots and herbs, and
claimed for them magic powers. h.
When the discovery Of the many
murders committed in the Bender
snanty was madeit was thought that
kate mao deliberately created fear
and repulslon 5for her, so that neigh
bors would notvbother her, her moth
en- father and brother at their chos,.
en- work OF murder. -. ..'.:>> IN
Ihose VINO. answered Rates all
Vertlsement4 and Rayfarers who pauss,
ed at the shanty$for food and shelter
were the V1ctlmns:tSs 1t is believed that
Kate herself,Waehe the iron ham
iiie[ "nloh ct 4fhaitsseb'tle skulls OF ner
'i|'.ihS aho. thehfJ cut onelE IhEoAu'
tee'ins 1he otaasast niempeis OIL the
h"tliiy ~ ulspose4 ol Inc pouies.
~ Aprli,: IelaS Ing bender 1amllS
s 81, apaneoAso thelr iittle farm
ne oiu iiidn soia nls Anules' "a Watch,
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dered * 10 go ~ w ' n""alst 4iui.
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wedeed bet weon two troes tbo hor.oa
still held FAST hv TIC traces ord o.r
ly fatntsbod fr,, .,,an+ 80 foo, 80
water On ber huga,, ,uoro h1ond
stains MOI far, . ruar y,s ~, ahan,
| doned sb.n+,,r Tof hn $500 49,
hIeatino Of y st.rv}no ,oo1s: .+tr.otos
the attention of the <-investigstors
| and an examinatio1 90 +he Pendo'
Mace was Wade
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snah'y was hladeh and although al
"as pio"eo, souholng rod soon re-
sealeo sou Spot' lang from grave
~ 1eet oeep was taken the pody OF
~, u oiN' IL was easily ldentlhed
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shI nv, 'oures u ah Ola 9an, ana little
SUI SUI T.. L nS oooy or the glrl showed
49, "oo''os' ana ~ was oeile'eo the1
tnat tne emo NAG oeeh thrown into
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