The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
YOUNG CHICAGO BANDIT ADMITS
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BEING IMPLICATED IN LONG
LIST OF CRIMES.
FOR LOVE OF HIS MOTHER
THAT SHE MAY GET REWARDS,
NEIDERMEiER WILL NcRiM-
MATE HIMSELF.

Chicago, Nov. 30.-Peter Neider-
meier, n of the members Of the quar-
tette Of young bandits who for the
last six months have terorized Chica-
go, in another confession Sunday
added several more crimes to the long
list already charged against him,
Vandine, Marx and Roeski. With
PARENTAL love uppermost in his mind,
Neidermeier offered to tell Chief Of
Police O'Neil Of a score Of robberies,
burglaries and other crimes that he
had committed, If the rewards offered
will only be given to his mother.
II want to know that my mother
will be cared for after / am hanged
said the twenty-one-year-old boy, who
Is now the ~self-confessed murderer Of
five men. II am guilty of crimes Of
which you know nothing and for which
innocent men are now suffering. There
are rewards offered for the culprit's
arrest and conviction. II you will
guarantee that these rewards will go
to my mother / will convict myself.
I will confess crimes that will startle
you"
In order to make his word good
Neidermeier. told of a few crimes he
claimed to have committed. He out
lined them in such a manner, Chief
of Police O'Neil declared, as only one
concerned In them could do. Neider-
meier. however, refused to divulge
the names of his partners In the af-
fairs referred to, pending the assur-
ance that his mother would get the
reward referred to.
A few of the additional crimes he
claims to have participated in are as
follows: II
Robbery Of the Illinois Central limit
ed at Paducuh, KY. in which Barth,
one Of the robbers, cut his throat.
while surrounded in a swamp. The
others escaped.
Heldlup i Train In Iowa.
Holdup and robbery of Chicago and
Northwestern passenger train near
Clybourne, Ia, ssf1sn1onths ago.
Holdup of a stage coach and faro
bank in Nevada, two years ago; no
one was shot.
Holdup and attempted robbery of
Baltimore and Ohio train at Edge
more, Ind, four years ago.
Minor holfups and rObberies In Chi
cago were mentioned by Neidermeier.
But in all cases he vas careful to con-
ceal the names Of his associates In
crime, merely giving sufficient out.
lines of the crimes to warrant Chief
O'Neil to. believe that Neidermeier
was telling the truth.
When Neidermeier was taken back
to his cell 1t was with assurance that
| his mother would bettered $599 finan-
cially.
Special Agent Wiley of the Chicago
and Northwestern promised him that
Mrs. Neidermeier would be given the
$500 for the arrest and conviction OF
the robbers at the Clybourne station
and exonerated a man named Dolan OF
St. Louis, now under Indictment.
Neidermeier said that before last
May he spent three years in holdups
and robberies outside Chicago and II
the rewards were forthcoming for his
mother he would make a clean breast
of everything.
The police have been SO appalled, by
Neidermeier's confession that they
hardly give credence to all his asser
tions. It is thought his anxiety over
his mothers welfare has prompted
him to make himself the author OF
crimes he did not commit.
From the assertions made by Neider
meier and Vandine Sunday 1t is said