Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — THE NOTORIOUS BENDERS [ARTICLE]

THE NOTORIOUS BENDERS

Recalled by the Finding of an Old Knife. A large knife, which is supposed to have been the one used by the noted Benders in disposing of their victims, has been found in an old tree on the old Bender place, east of Cherryvale, Kan. The tree, which was a large elm, war cut down for wood, and the knife wai found in a hollow inside the tree. It is supposed that It waa hidden there, and that after the Benders left the opening In the tree grew together.