Americus times-recorder., 1903-11-28
CHICAGO POLICE IN
FIGHT WITH BANDITS
Outlaws Had Been Trapped
In an Old Shanty.
TWO POLICEMEN ARE WOUNDED.
Harvey Van Dine and Peter Nieden-
mier, Accused of Sensational Robber-
les, Defy Chicago Police and a Fu-
rious Battle Was Waged.

rious Battle was Waged.
Chicago, Nov 27.-Harvey VanDine
and Peter Niedenmier, accused of sen
sational robberies and murders at
street car barns in Chicago, were
trapped in a dugout near Miller Sta
ton, Ind. The dugout was surround
ed by local police. Urgent kilograms
for help reached Assistant Chief of
Police Schuettler today and so men
left at once for Miller Station
A furious battle is said to have been
waged between the men in the. dugous
and the local police and that two of
the latter were shot.
With the telegram came requests for
a physician and priest.
Chief of Police Sheehan, of Miller
Station in his telegram reported that
he had no reason to doubt that the men
surrounded were the accomplices of
Gustav Marx, the self-confessed bandit,
who has been under arrest in Chicago
for several days.
The physician, priest and so men
were assembled and to get the men to
the station in time to catch a spe-
cial Chief O'Neill had to press into
service the wagon of the Western
Union Telegraph company. The detec-
tives piled into the wagon and were
driven at breakneck speed to the Illi-
nois Central station. The train was
scheduled to go to South Chicago,
where a special over the Baltimore and
Ohio was to take up the run to Miller
Station.
The dugout is in wild section Of
country near the shore of Lake Mich
igal and bordering the vast swamps
that stretch to the southwark.
Several volleys from rifles were sent
into the dugout, but the bandits kept
under cover. 1t is thought that one
of the bandits was injured.
The injured policemen were taken
to Miller Station.
The bandits were surrounded after
having been tracked across the sand
dunes of Indiana along the lake shore
The place where they were trapped
was dugout or hunters rude hut.
Tracking of the bandits was done by a
detail of Chicago detectives, not local
Indiana officers, as at first supposed.
Watched all night by the detectives
the bandits today made bold attempt
to escape and shot two of the would
be captors, one seriously. The re-
port of the shooting reached Chief
O'Neill just as he was preparing to
send out IA detectives under Chief
Schuettler. The detail was instantly
increased to SO men, and they were
rushed to special train.
Shoot to kilt" Chief O'NeilI stern
ly ordered the so men to do do, and on
the way to the Miller Station Assistant
Chief Schuettler repeated the order
emphatically
Chief Of Police O'NeiIl this afternoon
received word from the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad that apparently the bandits
had escaped from the posse at the dug
out near Millers Station. The report
said that three men, bloody AMI dis
heVeled, heldup a train on the Penn
sylvania at East Tolleston, Ind. and
shot brakeman and had forced the
train to carry the trio to Liverpool
Ind. Here the men jumped from the
train and headed for the Michigan
| Central tracks.
About the time that these reports
were received the train bearing De.
tectives Joseph B. Driscol, shot in
| the stomach, and morta11y wounded
and Sergeant Detective Mathew Zim.
mer, shot in the head and arm, arrived
in Chicago and were taken to a hos.
| pital.
The country surrounding the cave
is covered with six or eight inches Of
snow. 1t was the snow which en-.
abled the detectives to track the ban.
dts. The cave is on a little rise in
the prairie and in daylight commands
view of the surrounding country with
the exception of little strip alone
which the railroad track runs. It was
along this track that the officers II
the darkness took up their wait almost
| frozen from cold
Enraged at the wounding of theil
comrades, the detectives passed the
time between shots trying to think
OF some way to circumvent and can
ture the bandits.