The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-30
CHIEF FOILED
PLAN TO ESCAPE
Chicago's Boy Bandit Had Made ALI
His Arrangements to Take
French Leave.
Intended to Jump Thru Window,
but Didn't as Police Were
Stationed Outside.
Neidermeier Has Conf essed-Bandits
Are Indicted, Several Bills Be
ing Found Against Each.

dermeier is locked.
Neindermeier all but carried out
his plan to make a dash for liberty.
He arranged to meet Chief O'Neill
tensibly to make a number of con-
LESSONS. He intended, while gesticu-
lat1ng in illustration, to try to leap
thru the window to the street.
His plan was frustrated by the fore
sight of O'Neill who before permit
armed detectives outside the window
thru which the bandit hoped to
escape. Neidermeier, seeing his plan
checked, signifed that the inter-
view need not go further and that
he was ready to return to his cell.
Retain Their Bravado.
1--WE will all walk to the scaffold
without a tremor."
This was the statement made to-
day by the murderers, Mark, Van Dein.
Neidermeier and Roeski, as they sat
in their cells.
Van Dein may plead insanity. This
plea may also be entered by the other
bandits.
A great grandfather of Van DENIS
is said to have murdered his wife and
daughter in Maine and to have been
adjudged insane and sent to an asylum
in which he died.
Van DENIS mother has been work
ing with charitable organizations for
several years, devOting much time to
organizing boys clubs, the purpose of
which was to keep boys from saloons.
smoking and reading lurid literature.
She told Police Inspector Lawn to-day
that she never suspected her son OF
any wrongdoing.
Prompt action was taken by the
grand jury against the young bandits
now In Jail here.
Against Van Dein, indictments were
voted charging him with completely
in five murders; against Neidermeier,
indictments in connection with four
murders, and against Marx, indict-
ments for four murders. Roeski will
stand trial for one murder.
The following are the crimes for
which indictments were voted by the
jurors:
Van Dein, Roeslsi and Marx, for the
murder OF Otto Bauder. July 8.
Neiderneier, Van Dein and Marx, for
the murder of Frank W. Stewart during
the car barn robbery, Aug. 80.
Van Dein, 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. II.
Van Dein and Neidermeier, for the muir
der Of Adolph Johnson, Aug. 1, at North
fOELy-SGV6utH street. duU w est IHTCQ ave-
nue., in the saloon Of B. c. lie Crosse; also
the murder of LIE Crosse at the same time.
= No cognizance can be taken in Illi-
nois Of the murder Of Brakeman L. r.
| Sovea in Indiana Friday. nor Of the
shooting of Detectives Driscoll and
thinner in Indiana.
Peter Neidermeier in a second
confession added several more crimes
to the long list already charged
against him, Van Dein, Marx and
! Roeski.
Solicitors for His Mother.
..I want to know that my mother
will be cared for after I am hanged"
said the 21-year-old boy WHO now is
| the self-confessed murderer of five
men. IT am guilty of crimes of which
you know nothing and for which inno-
| cent men are now suffering. There are
rewards offered for the culprits' ar
rest and conviction. II you will guar
antee that these rewards will go to my
mother I will convict myself. will
| confess crimes that will startle YOU"
A few of the additional crimes he
claims to have participated in are as
follows:
Robbery of the Illinois Central limited
express at Paducah, KY, in which Rarth.
one Of the robbers, cut his throat while
surrounded In swamp. The others es-
capped.
Hold-up of stage coach. committed In
Butler, Neb. two years ago, and the robe
| bers escaped.
| Hold-up and robbery Of Chicago 8; North
Western passenger train near Claybourne,
| Iowa, six months ago.
old-up and attempted robbery Of Baiti-
| more & Ohio train at Edgemore, Ind, four
years ago.
. Minor hold-ups and robberies in
Chicago were mentioned by Neider-
| meier, hut in all cases he was careful
& Northwestern promised him that
in crime, merely giving sufficient out
lines Of the crimes to warrant Chief
O,Neil in believing that Neidermeier
was telling the truth.
Mother to Get $500.
When Neidermeier was taken back
| to his cell it was with the assurance
that his mother would be bettered
| $500 financially.
Special Agent Wiley of the Chicago
to conceal the names Of his associates
Mrs. Neidermeier would receive the
$500 reward se-rthe arrest and convic-
t ton of the robbers at the Clybourne
I station. Neidermeier exonerated a
man named Do1an Of st. Louis, who sis
1 now under. INDIGNANT