The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-12-04

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aEa4theS brakeman" and then sank back
to listen TO Van Dine. When Van Dine
heard tina Mayor Harrison was coming
into the room he Strengthened up, tried
to smooth down N~eidermeier's hair,
which was stiff with matted blood, and,
taking a small mirror from a pocket.
tried to scrape the blood from his own
race. Both men admitted that Marx
had told essentially the truth in con-
Meeting them with the various crimes
charged up against them, and said that
they did the killing at the car barns.
y hit two men," said Neidermeier.
Il don't know If 1 killed anybody"
w left Chicago" said Van Dine,
because we thought it wise to disap-
pear for a time after Marx made his
'squeal,' but We're coming back again.
We intended to come In tonight and
away"
II suppose that means" said Chief
oNeil, that o We're going to COM
nit robbery"
VIII sure, certainly" said Van Dins
Had Big Plans.
we We're planning some big rob
berries here" said Van Dine. and we
would have got away with a lot Of
money soon but for Marx squealing on
US. I would like to get him and put
him where Driscoll is"
tt1lCll ~ tlldl+IlG police meant TO
take his picture, Van Dine said:
Well, you don't get it until my face
is washed. I'll have no picture look.
ing like this"
Chief of Police O'Neil took a damp
towel and wiped the faces of the two
men and then the pictures We're taken.
After this Van Dine again talked of
his surrender:
I wanted to see my friends before I
went" he said. We've got mothers
Ike other people. amt we Pete?" n
Niedermier replied. Sure thing"
w fought until there was no chance
OF getting away without further MUIR
der" said Van Dine. "Vhen you was
on that trail L could have shot lots
Of those farmers. They were black
against the snow, and did not know
enough to take cover. 1t would have
been nothing but target practice to
kill them"
Following fresh footprints in the
snow from the scene of the capture Of
NiederHeier and Van Dine, Fred Mil
Ter, Louis Miller, JOHN Dillon, Charles
Hamilton and Hugo Kemp, residents of
East Toneston, Ind captured Emil
Roesk1 sitting on a bench in the Wa
bash station at Aetna, Ind, a town four
miles northeast of Liverpool, Ind.
Arrest of Roeski.
The arrest vas made at 4:15 o'clock,
shortly after Roeski missed a train to
Chicago. He was unarned. The bandit
was Identified by Hugo Kemp. a hunter,
who engaged the Desperate in a life
struggle at a sandpit at East Tolleston,
when the fugitives pressed the train
INTO service to escape the police.
Kemp, who vas a witness of the muir
der of Brakeman Sovea, told how he
and John Clifford were standing on the
other side of the locomotive when
N.edermeier struggled with and shot
SOVa1H a nd nSnann2 with hic bowman -
ions in the locomotive, Kemp firing a
double load of bjrdshot at them. After
that Kemp and several companions
went to Liverpool m took up the trail
in the snow. This trail led to a corn
shack, in which the posse discovered
the bandits had taken refuge. They
We're preparing to open fire when a
voice from the shack said: w sur
render
s. Fred Miller, who was leading the
posse, ordered the men to throw out
their guns and com out with their
hands up. Three magazine guns and
a revolver We're thrown out, and Van
Dine STEPPED out with his hands up and
said:
For Gods sake. boys, don't shoot
me. l want to see my mother before +
die
Neiderrneier then stepped out with
his hands UP and said:
Safe With the Posse.
w NOW you men will do the right
thing with us, and tllatsis the reason we
surrender. We would never give up
alive to the police, who We know are
surrounding us. /. too, want to see my
mother. You see we are both injured.
Van Dire is weak and could not so any
further, 80 [ remained with him. Ro-
eski Went on, II there is his trail" at
the same time pointing to a line of
loot prints going northeast from tho
corn shack.
When the posse turned the bandits
over TO the Chicago police, Neider-
meier said:
You have treated Is All right; come
to Chicago and see us hanged"
Then the posse took up the trail for
Roesli, and the footprints took them to
Aetna station, where they captured Ro-
esli without any trouble
Late tonight Roeslsi was brought to
Chicago, n is now locked up il the
same police station as his companions.
Weak from the DAVIS ordeal. Emil
Roeski sat in his cell at the Harrison
street station tonight and told a re-
Neidermeier and Van Dine.
Van Dine and Neiaerlneier knew
that hat l was the only n who could
lmplicate them in the car barn CASE
said Roeski, and they hungered for
my life. They would have killed me
SNA' ~ 49, ~ ! h
II there had been an opportunity, but
/ knew 1t and watched them. I had to
protect myself against their murderous
designs as well as those of the men
who tracked US.
Treachery in the Gang.
IT was not in on the. car barn deal.
I could have been. and probably would
have been, but we had a little misun-
~derstanding. After the job the boys
told me Of it. OF course, they realized
that ! knew it anyway. They seemed
to fear that I would give them away
to the police.
Not long ego Van Dine enticed me
into the woods somewhere In Indiana.
He pretended we were searching for
dynamite that was buried. But | was
wiseII knew he wanted to Kill me.
When / thought he was about ready to
do the job l covered him. I told him
that il he made a move I would Shoot
him on the spot. He knew L would do
1t, too. Would you blame me-?
"Neider1neier. and Van Dine, the very
fellows whom I had befriended time
and again, were waiting for the oppor-
tunity to put a bullet into my BRAIN.
I can't hardly stand IL whey, T think