Rudolph BROCKMANN

Name: Rudolph Brockman

Birth Date: 19 Sep 1842

Age at Death: 75

Death Date: 5 Feb 1918

Burial Place: Dennis, Labette County, Kansas, USA

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Encyclopedia of World Crime: A-C

books.google.deJay Robert Nash - 1990 - 852 pages - Snippet view

... at the grocery of Rudolph Brockmann, the first man to help the Benders in Kansas. By then the searchers had discovered that Brockmann had not only helped the Benders settle in the area, but that he and old man Bender had actually ...

http://www.cjonline.com/stories/082503/kan_benders.shtml

In the fall of 1896 Rudolph Brockman, living in the northwestern part of the county, was arrested for the murder of his little girl. It appeared that he kept her in the barn, where for some time she lay sick and was supplied with none of the comforts which her condition demanded. From the evidence, the treatment certainly seemed most brutal and, no doubt, was the cause of the child's death, which occurred about the time, or soon after, his arrest. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentence was passed in accordance with the verdict.

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/labette/1901/68-77.shtml

The portable murder book

books.google.deJoseph Henry Jackson - 1945 - 570 pages - Snippet view

For a short time, the Benders lived on the claim of a German named Rudolph Brockmann — a disastrous acquaintanceship for this harmless citizen. At last, however, after one move, they built a frame house on the main road from Parsons to ...

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he West -- 8 dead bodies have been found under the house of the BENDER

family, in Labette county, Kansas, and near which the body of Senator

YORK’s brother was found. About a dozen persons mysteriously disappeared

near that place the past year. This is the first trace of any of them.

BENDER and family have escaped from the country. A man named BROCKMAN was

hung by an excited mob, to make him confess the knowledge it is believed

he possessed regarding the whereabouts of BENDER and family -- A little

girl named Mary FITZPATRICK was gored to death in Dubuque, Iowa, the

other day, by an infuriated cow -- Richard WALLINGFORD and his wife,

living in Van Buren county, Iowa, deliberately committed suicide a few

nights ago, by taking poison -- In Winona county, Minnesota, John

HEFFERMAN, aged 65, attacked his son with an ax. The latter, in

self-defense, smote his aged parent with a billet of wood, from the

effects of which he died -- The little town of Wetmore, Kansas, on the

Central Branch Pacific railroad, was recently the scene of a horrible and

revolting tragedy. A man named ERRICKSON went to the house of a neighbor

named MARQUETTE, whom he shot dead in his own door. The wretch then

entered the house, and after outraging the wife of the murdered man,

killed her by shooting her 7 times with a revolver. He then wound up by

shooting himself twice, once in the abdomen and once through the head --

5 Indians recently attacked the house of James HARRISON, near Walla

Walla, Oregon. HARRISON defended himself and his daughter, and with a

hatchet knocked 2 down and struggled with a third, when the daughter came

to his rescue and knocked the Indian down with an ax. The neighbors heard

the outcries and came to the relief. Three of the Indians were arrested,

2 escaping.

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The truth comes out

Soon afterward, the Benders abandoned their home, fleeing in a wagon.

They had been gone at least several days when neighbors noticed a calf had died of starvation and other animals were barely alive.

A large number of men showed up to search the property. They found rectangular depressions in the ground by the orchard and dug up at least eight bodies, including that of the little girl. Accounts vary as to whether all the other bodies were men, or one was a young woman.

A posse was formed to pursue the Benders. Alexander York offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to their arrest, and Gov. Thomas Osborn put out a $2,000 reward for the apprehension of all four.

Some people in the area questioned whether Rudolph Brockman, a suitor of Kate Bender's, had been an accomplice. A crowd tied a rope around Brockman's neck, lifted him into the air, released him, then repeated the process several times as Brockman protested his innocence.

The people gave up after they realized they were getting nowhere, and Brockman escaped with his life.

Meanwhile, souvenir hunters had demolished the Bender home, taking away every board, brick and shingle.

Name: R Brockman

Census Date: 1915

Residence County: Labette

Residence State: Kansas

Locality: Osage

Birth Location: Germany

Family Number: 33

Gender: Male

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843

Race: White

Line: 18

Roll: ks1915_121

Household Member(s):

Name Age

H H Brockman 24

G L Brockman 22

R Brockman 72

Name: Rudolph Brockman

Geburtsdatum: 1843

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Alter: 38

Name des Ehepartners: Amelia Zoller

Geburtsdatum des Ehepartners: 1853

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Alter des Ehepartners: 28

Ereignisdatum: 03 Apr 1881

Ereignisort: Wilson, Kansas

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Satznummer des Indexierungsprojekts: M72511-2

Ursprungssystem: Kansas-EASy

GS-Filmnummer: 1428563

Referenznummer: 5

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