Volume 15 , Issue 33

1873 - Searching the World for the Kansas Murderers

In the Belmont Chronicle, 24 July 1873, out of St. Clairsville, Ohio, we found this article: "Searching the World for the Kansas Murderers."

An agent of the Special Detective Agency of New York was then in Paris in pursuit of the Bender family, who were charged with being the authors of the wholesale murders discovered at Cherryvale, Kansas. Detectives from the same agency had been sent to London and all the leading European cities. One of the accused, Johanna, or as she was commonly known, Katie Bender, was quite young, had red hair, and was a person of rather repulsive features, with a furtive and distrustful expression. She was seen on a steamer which left New York for Havre, and it was supposed that the whole family were at the French capital or in the environs. Kate Bender was possessed of some education, and was said to be able to speak a little French. If they were really in France, that the police were on their track, it would be impossible for them long to escape detection.

It appears that the world was to be ransacked that these murderers may be caught. It was most singular that, with the strongly marked characteristics of all four members of this infamous family, they had escaped detection so long.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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