The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01
THEY FIGHT AND fly
,say on an Engine Whose Driver is
Forced to Aid Them---0n A!ight-
ina Faint and Bleeding They
are Run Down and
Captured.
Captured.
nv the Associated Press.)

Captured.
nv the Associated Press.)
r.--ga. Nov. Exclaimed wrist to
u,.t their hair matted with dried blood,
..r clothing covered with dust and dirt
.-. t~.7rElc4s boys, Peter Niedermeier and
u..rsv Van Dine, sat tonight in the pres
.-a Of Mayor Harrison and Chief of Po-
ire 0NelI, calmly confessing to their
..,a in a three months career of crime.
which. has included eight murders, the
m,ndug of five other men. and a long
series of robberies. The two young ban
dts neither Of whom is over q years of
.p. together with their companion, Emil
R5sskic. who IS no older, were captured
mar Liverpool, Ind, today after a fight
in which they battled against policemen,
railroad detectives, railroad laborers and
aruer,. One man was killed, another
fatally wounded and all three of the young
bandits were wounded, but not seriously.
The dead:
T. j. SOVEA. brakeman on the Penn
>rvauIa Railroad.
Woundcd-Joseph Driscoll, detective on
L.LdZt FU1Ct 1OICc, SllOl through dDuO-
men aad can live but a short time.
Matthew thinner, detective, on Chica-
20 police force. shot in head and arm.
NelGermeier was wounded in the hand
BY brdshot; Van Dine was similarly in
jure5. and sustained IN addition a flesh
wound in the left thigh. Roeskie was shot
II the right hip.
The three men were wanted by the
police for completely in the murders at
the car barns Of the Chicago City Railroad
Company, on August 80, when two men
we're killed, a third badly wounded and
$3.50 stolen from the company.
Gustave Marx, who last Saturday night
murdered officer John Quinn when the
Policeman endeavored to place him under
arrest. 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, Niedermeier and
Roa-6'e has been bot ever since. Although
they knew that the entire police force
was looking for them, the three men re-
NAMED IN the city until Wednesday
night.
W were laying for a fellow that WAS
witness against Marx said Van Dine.
On Wednesday they left Chicago, going
TO a dugout made near Miiler's Station,
Lni, where they were surprised by the
police this morning.
Both parties opened fire and DriscolI
FELL Van Dine and Roeskie rusned out,
followed a few minutes later by Nieder-
meier. The latter ran to the tracks Of
the Michigan Central Railroad and throw
Mg himself fat on the roadbed ~teadied
his arm on the rail as he kept up a rapid
fir with three revOlvers. Roeskie ran
-~ a. ~-,-l 49, Vs. nv -a+rno+NI
so:ly although the air around him was
MED with bullets, and the snow at his
.ar was kicked up by them. He is q
splendid marksman, and catching sight
Of Detective thinner, who was behind 4
tree. he fired, thinner went down with
bullet in the head. AS he fell Van
Dine fired again and the second bullet
lore through Zimmer's arm.
The detectives fired constantly, but the
bandits escaped.
After running about q, mile across coun-
NY they came to the tracks OF the Penn
>E-FanEt Railroad. A switch englne with a
tram Of cars was close at hand, and, hur-
fyAs up to it, the men ordered Brakeman
>oTea to uncouple the train from the 10
eIotve. He refused and attempted to
AXE NeldeImeier's revolver from him,
-1e after instantly sent a bullet through
-e brakcman's brains, laying him dead IT
The snow.
Nplngng past SOvea's body the bandits
mounted the locomotive with REVIEWERS /:
"~Aa and ordered the engineer to move
oo1 III a hurry, which he did, going In the
direction 81 Liverpool, Ind. After two
'4es had been covered, the men ordered
me engineer to slow down, and leaplng tt
~s ground disappeared in the woods.
Alter the train had carried Van Dine
,'1 A.eaermeier away Detective SheehaI
-~.'-ei 10 the nearest telegraph station
t- "Ired the Chief of Police O'Nelll, ask
-s mat men be sent out with rifles. The
-S9~'se met with a prompt respons an;
" snort time Assistant Chief Of Police
.~oe.i'er and fifty officers, armed witt
"s7 were on the way to Millers by spe
titA1- Captain Briggs Of the detectlV'
''e III the Pennsylvania Railroad, wa
orders 20 get the three men deat
awe. lie and his men were Oft toWart
Liverpool.
"1ea the bandits left the train the me-
nearly exhausted and unable t.
Ut was easy to track them in tn
Il. .'IIen snow and the hunt was speed
d. '7e0- The men were seen as the,
about III the sand dunes, and tn
DOH. most of whom were armed WIT
,+ harrelied shotguns, opened fire o.
r-' @eldermeier received a charge fuI
b-.e Mead and the blood streamed dow
r.. and into his eyes, binding him $
w. lie could hardly see. A shot Craze
w,l -,Ae head and his wounded leg wa
an .-'@. The posse was closing in o
ras There was no escape and it wa
rcr 10 both men that the time ha
The e,aer to surrender or to fight t
ss,r l}ne said tonight in discussing HI
NAN. jig VAS up for us, no matter no
VIC hIlled. l says to Pete: Wei