The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-03
IN A RIOT OF CRIME.
BANDITS HAVE DESPERATE FIGHT
WITH DETECTIVES.
Chicago Car Barn Brigands, Trapped
In Cave, Shoot Two Policemen-Kill
Brakeman and Seize Train in Eff.
fort to Get Away.

a Brakeman and Seize Train In Ef.
fort to Get Away.
Pursued by posse of more than fifty
Chicago policemen, two of whom they
shot, perhaps fatally, three men, sup
posed to be Harvey Van Dine, Peter
! Niedemeyer and Emil Roeski, the Chi
cago car barn bandits, held up Penn
sylvania train at East Tolleston, Ind,
Friday, killed the brakeman and compell-
ed the fireman to run the engine with
them aboard to Liverpool, Ind, where
they leaped off, carrying their weapons
and disappeared north.
Tracked to a lonely cave near Miller's
Station, Ind, Thursday night by Detec-
tive John Sheehan of Chicago and de-
tail of seven men, the brigands. who
swore never to be taken alive, made n
desperate stand, shot Detectives thinner
and Driscoll and escaped through the
snow to the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks near East Tolleston. There they
held up a Pennsylvania freight train,
shot and killed Brakeman L. j. Fabio,
and at the points of their weapons COM
PEELED the firemen to cut off the engine
from the train and take them to Liver:
pool, Ind, where they disappeared in the
wild country, going northward toward
the Michigan Central tracks.
Police Armed With Rifles.
The "shoot to kilI' desperadoes real
lied their danger when Detective Shee-
han and his posse surrounded them. As
soon as Sheehan could get word to Chi
cagO that he had cornered the human
qnarry active preparations were made in
the city hall for a posse of police armed
with rifles. To stay in that desolate hole
meant to be riddled with Winchester bull
lets. They got out of the ambuscade,
ran through the snow and found the
freight train on a siding. The engineer
and the conductor were i'll the telegraph
station waiting for orders. The engine
had plenty of steam up. Distance had
to be "annihilated." The deadly guns
that had played so steadily on the police
but short time before were brought
into play. The brakeman may have
made a display of resistance. No one
will ever know. He was ruthlessly shot
down. The fireman whose practiced
hand was needed to guide the engine was
spared. But he felt the muzzles of re.
volvers at his head and dared make no
resistance.
With n snort the Pennsylvania engine
fairly darted out on the main line, bear
ing it's freight of desperadoes and the
frightened fireman.
Meanwhile Assistant Chief Schuettler
at the head of the most determined posse
of heavily armed police Chicago has
ever had to send out in a man hunt had
arrived at the retreat on the snow-cOv.
cred sand dune near Miller's Station. The
quarry had fed in time.
Hundred Shots Exchanged.
More than a hundred shots were ex.
changed in the morning between the fugi
tives in the cave and the eight detec.
tives who had them ambushed. The po
lice were forced to fight in the open, hav-
ing the embankment of the railroad
tracks as their only protection. Only
once during the morning was sight
caught of the fugitives. They remained
hidden in the cave, their rifles alone
showing. The cave is out in the open,
about two and half miles from the sta.
ton of Miller.
There was absolutely no protection for
the officers who surrounded the cave all
night and approached at Z o'clock in the
morning. The first thing they met was
a rifle shot. The shooting became so hot
that they were forced to take shelter
behind the tracks.
When they lodged behind the railroad
embankment the shooting stopped. Dris-
coll and thinner had stepped to the top
of the tracks to take a survey of things
when the fugitives fired from Winches-
ter rifles in rapid succession. thinner
fell, shot in two places, once in the head,
once in the arm. Driscoll was shot in
the abdomen and became unconscious
soon after.
The scene of the shooting would stage
the widest of vendettas. After a care
full study of the surroundings Detective
Sheehan said that he was of the firm
opinion that the cave had been picked
out as refuge by Marks associates long
ago.
Two Brigands Captured.
After pitched battle in the sand pits
near East Tolleston, Ind, sand beavers
and section hands in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroads.&c. two men,
bers of the car barn trio and captured
them late Friday afternoon. The men
were disarmed, placed on special train
of Captain Briggs and taken to Liver
pool. The third member of the party,
who shot Brakeman Favio, escaped after
exchanging shots with the railroad men.
The two members of the car barn
gang who were caught are said to have
been seriously injured, being shot from
ShOtgunS which the railroad men carried.