The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-28
YoING CHICAGO DESPERADOEs
RESISTED ARREST.
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED
PROVED THE MARKSMANSHIP AND
THE METTLE OF THE MEN.

Chicago, Nov. 27.-Chained wrist to
wrist. their hair matted with dried
blood. their clothing covered with dust
and dirt two beardless boys, Peter
Niedermeier and Harvey Van Dine,
sat tonight in the presence of Mayor
Harrison and Chief of Police O'Neil,
calmly confessing to their share in a
has included eight murders the
wounding of five other men and a
long series of robberies.
The two young bandits, neither of
whom is over 81 years of age, togeth-
er with their companion, Emil Rosskie,
who is no older, were captured near
Liverpool, Ind, to-day after a fight in
which they battled against policemen
railroad detectives, railroad laborers
and farmers. One man was killed,
another fatally wounded and all
three of the young bandits were
wounded, but not seriously.
The dead:
L. J. Sovea, brakeman on the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
Wounded:
Joseph Driscoll, detective on Chicago
police force, shot through abdomen and
can live but a short time.
Matthew thinner, detective on Chi
cago police force, shot in head and
arm.
Niedermier was wounded in the
head by birdshot; Van Dine was sim
iarily injured, and sustained in addi-
ton flesh wound in the left thigh
Roeskie was shot in the right hip.
For Robbery and Murder.
The three men were wanted by the
police for completely in the murders
at the car barns of the Chicago City
Railway Company on Aug. 30, when
two men were killed a third badly
wounded and s2,250 stolen. Gustave
Marx. who last Saturday night murder
ed officer John Quinn when the police
man endeavored to place him under ar
rest, confessed after his capture that
he. in company with the three men,
had committed the crimes at the car
barns. The hunt for Van Dine, Me
dermier and Roeskie has been hot ever
since.
Although they knew that the entire
police were looking for them, the three
men remained in the city until We'd
nesday morning. I'VE We're laying
for a fellow that was a witness against
Marx" said Van Dine. On Wednes-
day they left Chicago, going to a dug
out made near Miller Station, Ind,
where they were surprised by the po-
lice this morning. =.
When the Battle Began.
Both parties opened fire, and Dris-
coll oil
ed out. followed a minute later by
Niedermier The latter ran to the
tracks of the Michigan Central Rail-
road, and throwing himself fiat on the
road bed, steadied his arm on the rail
as he kept up a rapid fire with three
revolvers. Roeskie ran for the brush,
but Van Dine retreated slowly, al
though the air around him was filled
with bullets, and the snow at his feet
was kicked up by them. He is a SPLEEN
old marksman, and catching sight of
Detective thinner, who was behind a
tree, he fired. thinner went down with
a bullet in the head. AS he fell. Van
Dlne fired again and the second bull
let tore through Zimmer's arm.
The detectives fired constantly, but
the bandits escaped. After running
ABOUT mile across country, they came
10 the tracks of the Pennsylvania road.
N"IINlA euBIHe WIFI d Tram VI Cal .
was close at hand and, hurrying up to
It, the men ordered Brakeman Sovea to
uncouple the train from the locomotive.
he refused and attempted to take
Nledermier's revolver from him. The
lalter instantly sent bullet through
the brakemans brain. laying him dead
IN the snow.
Swinging past Sovea's body, the
bandits mounted the locomotive, with
reNoIYers in hand, and ordered the en-
Elheer to move out in a hurry. which
ne cid, going in the direction of Liver
pool. Ind. After two miles had been
covered the men ordered the engineer
~ SLOW down. and leaping to the
ground, disappeared in the woods.
ReinfOrcements Secured.
After the train had carried Van Dine
%lu Nledermier away, Detective Shee-
n1n hurried to the nearest telegraph
SotaQon and wired Chief of Police
ONell asking that men be sent out
WIN rifles. The message met with a
prompt response, and in a short time
assistant Chief of Police Schuettler
ana nifty officers, armed with rifles,
80 on the way to Millers by special
ram Capt. Briggs of the detective
wee of the Pennsylvania Railway
vas given orders to get the three men,
os8a or alive. He and his men were
dIu Liverpool.
When the bandits left the train they
we're nearly exhausted and unable to
toNel. 1t was easy to track them in
s sIe neW-fallen snow, and the hunt was
Speedily closed.
me men were seen as they lodged
eoout in the sand dunes, and the farm
a., most of whom were armed with
ooouble-barreled shotguns, opened fire
vi mem. Neidermier received full
stntIge IN the head and the blood
euVarned down his face and into his
~, binding him so that he could
buy see. A shot grazed Van Dimes
WI and his wound in the leg was
i,eaKenlng him. The posse was clos-
ra III on all sides. There was no es-
III ana it was evident to both men
"a "a the time had come either to sur
''1ef Or to fight to the death.
The Jig Was Up.
b,s' an Dine said tonight in discussing
no surrender: THE jig was up for us,
10 Pete: may
nos, Wen, what do you think?' He
~ DJued bis head and dropped his guns,
w mats how they got us"
niHe men were OF once handcuffed,
SSiSa,Ced upon a train and hurried to
not ago the city police officers wasting
iino minute in rushing them over the
xb1 INTO Illinois in order to avoid pos
'e conflict with the Indiana police,