Arizona republican., 1903-11-29
Indictment of Chicago Ban
dts. for Many Murders
HISTORY OF NEIDEMEIER
His Record Story OF Blood From His
Boyhood-A Confession That He
Was The Leader Of a Gang Of Train
Robbers.

Chicago, Nov. Establishments were,
voted by the grand jury today against
Harvey Van Dine, Peter Ncidermeier
and Emil Roeski, the three young ban
dts who were arrested yesterday An
indictment was also voted against
Gustava Marx. who murdered Officer
Quinn and was with the others in the
ma jority of their crimes.
Indictments were voted charging Van
Dine with completely in five murders
against Neidermeier for four murders
and against Marx for four murder.i.
Roeskl will stand trial for one murder.
The following are the crimes fer
which the indictments were voted by
the jurors.
Van Dine. Roeski and Marx for the
murder of Otto Rauder. July 3.
Neidermeier. Van Dine and Marx for
the murder of Frank w. Stewart. dur
ing the car barn robbery August 30.
Ven Dine Neidermeier and Marx for
the murder of John B. Johnson at the
barns at the time Stewart was slain
Marx for the murder OF Detective
John Quinn, Nov. 81.
Van Dine and Neidermeier for tn.
murder of Adolph Johnson. August q.
at North Seventeenth street and West
North avenue in the saloon of B. C-
Legrosse. also for the murder of Le-
crosse at the same time.
Cognizance cannot be taken in Hi
nois of the murder of Brakeman l. J.
Sovein in Indiana on Friday. nor OF
the shooting of Detectives Driscoll and
Summer in Indiana. II is the intention
of States Attorney Dineen to bring the
men to trial as quickly as possible.
u foIy tvfa oil
of the men worked together. bu. Il
happened that when the greater crimes
were committed one of the number
was absent.
Rocski was not at the robbery ot
the car barns and had no ra-t in tsy
murders committed at that time
Marx was alone when he killed Off
Ger Quinn and was in Jail yesterday
when the murders were committed in
InCiana. These two, therefore, viii
probably have a separate trial unless
n general plea of guilty is made by
all four men.
Previous TO his career as hoId-up
and murderer in Chicago. Peter Neider-
meier was already murderer. accord
ing to 4 story he told in the Harrison
police station tonight.
According 10 his story his first vic
tim was a trainman IN Canada.
To the police officers and railroad
detectives, who were questioning h'ia
he related the circumstances IS fo,-
lows:
"In 1895, I was beating my way west
on a freight train loaded with coal.
bound from Portage, Ort- When rid
ing on too of the train l was ordered
to get off by a man whom they called
captain but whose name l never
learned. l heard afterward that he
was a railroad detective. He ordered
me from the train. and when | refused:
to get off he threw coal at me- I
threw back at him and one of the Jumps
struck him or the head Then he
drew a revolver and fired twice at re.
Both times he missed me. and then 1
drew my revolver. / fired six shots
three of them hit him. l shot him i'm
the head. in the abdomen and in TIE
side.
He ran a few feet and fell dead on
top of the car / searched him and
found no money. Later the train
crew came along and l heard they
found $40 in his pockets. 1 was sore
when l learned what l had missed
Il was only a boy then. but 1 did
rot intend to be run over by an officer.
After shooting him / got off the train
and went from there to Winnipeg and
heard no more about the case"
Nedermeier also confessed tonight
that he has been guilty of robbing
trains in addition to his other crimeS-
He admitted that he was the lsader of
gang that held up and robbed a
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train near
Miller, Ind, about two years ago. The
robbery was committed near the SPOT
where the three men were discovered
yesterday by the police and Neider-
meier said tonight that the dugout in
which he and his companions were
found yesterday was the exact srOt
in which he and his partners in the
train robbery mad bid before holding up
the train.
None of these other boys were in
that affair" he said. Il had partner
who since that time has been leading 4
decent life and I'll never tell his name.