The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-30
ADDS MORE CRIMES TO LIST
CHICAGO POLICE APPALLED, BIZ
NEIDEmEYER.

confsssss Implieatlon In q score OF
Train Hold Ups, surgIaries aud Other
Outr.g.s-wiII Tell Evsrything II
Assured That His Mother VIII Get tbs
Rewards offered.
Chicago. Nov. 2s-Peter Neidermeyer.
one of the members of the quartette of
young bandits who for the last six
months have terrorized Chicago, in an
other confession to-day added several
more crimes to the long list already
charged against him and his compan-
ions. Van Dine. Marx and Raeski. With
parental uppermost in his mind, Neid-
ermeyer offered to ten Chief of Police
#o'Neill Of a score Of train hold-ups,
burglaries and other crimes that he has
committed. If the rewards offered will
only be given to his mother.
Il want to know that my mother will
be cared for after am hung" said the
twenty -one-year-old boy, who is now
the self-confessed murderer of five men.
II am guilty of crimes Of which you
know nothing and for which innocent
men are now suffering. There are re-
wards offered for my capture and con-
viction. # you will guarantee that
these rewards will go to my mother, I
will convict myself. I will confess
crimes that will startle you"
In order to make his word good
Neidermeyer told Of few crimes
which he claimed to have committed.
ETc 4x.
Chief ONeilil declared tonight, as on
" one who was concerned in them
could do. Neidermeyer refused, how
ever, to divulge the names of his part
ners in the crimes referred to, pending
proof that his mother would get the re-
ward.
A few OF the additional crimes he
claims to have participated in are as
follows:
Robbery Of the Illinois Central Inn
tied express at Paducah, KY. after
which Barnes, one of the robbers, cut
his throat while surrounded In q swamp.
The others escaped
Hold-up Of stage coach mile
from Butler, New, two years ago and
robbery of the mails. No one was shot
and robbers escaped without recogni-
ton.
Hold-up and robbery of Chicago &
Northwestern passenger train near
Boone, Ia, six months ago.
Hold-up and attempted robbery Of
Baltimore & Ohio train at Edgemoor,
Ind, four years ago.
Minor hold-ups and robberies in and
out Of Chicago were mentioned by
Neiderneyer. But in all cases lie was
careful to conceal the names OF his as
sociates in crime, merely giving an OUT
line sufficient to warrant Chief O'NeilIs
In believing that Neiderneyer was tell
ing the truth.
When Neidermeyer went back to his
cell it was with the assurance that his
mother would be bettered $500 financial
ly.
Special Agent w. Riley. Of the Cfica-
go and Northwestern railroad promised
him that Mrs. Neidermeyer should be
and conviction Of the CIybourn station
robbers after Neidermeyer detailed the
robbery to them and exonerated a man
named Dole os St Louis, who is now
under indictment.
Operator Dougherty and Ticket Agent
Lathrop, the victims Of the robbery In
the Clybourn station hold-up, were
present during Neidermeyer's confess
sion, going over with him in detail the
robbery and the shooting OF Lathrop
Neidernleyer details the Paducah KY,
hold-up perfectly, refusing to tell names
for the reason that none Of the Illinois
Central detectives were present He Off,
fered to tell Special Agent O'Keefe the
entire story of the daring robbery and
even show him the house in Kentucky
where he hid after the robbery
It stalled the train alone" said Nei-7
dermeyer. Then entered the baggage
car and threw out three sacks. Barnes
grabbed one Of them. did not get any
as was lucky in getting away with
my life They found Barnes in a swamp.
He had cut his throat.
Before last May I spent three years
in hold-ups and robberies outside Chi
cago and if the rewards are forthcom-
ing for my mother + will make a clean
breast Of everything
The police have been so appalled, BY
Neidermeyer's confessions that they
hardly give credence to all his asser-
tions. It is thought that his anxiety
over his mothers welfare has prompted
him to make himseF the author OF
crimes he did not commit.
As result Of the assertions made BY
Neidermeyer and Van Dine to-day 1t Is
said that more arrests will be made
Chief O'Neil tonight asserted that
there was a strong probability that
Neidermeyer and Van Dine would tell
OF all their accomplices in other crimes
in which both men have acknowledged
they had help.
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