The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-02
CAREER OF CRIME
Of : Three Young Hen Who Out
classed in Murders the
NOTORIOUS JESSE JAMES GANG
They Confess to Having Murdered
Nine Men. The Thrilling Story
Of Their Capture in
Indiana.

Of Their Capture in
Indiana.
Chained wrist to wrist, their hands
matted with dried blood, their CLOTH
ing covered with dust and dirt, two
beardless boys, Peter Neidernier and
Harvey Van Dine, sat Friday night
in the presence OF Mayor Harrison
and Chief of Police O'Neill in the po-
lice barracks in Chicago, camly con-
Tossing to their share in a three
months career Of crime which has in
elu6ed nine murders, the wounding Of
6ve other men and long series Of
robberies. The two young bandits,
neither of whom is 81 years Of age, to-
gether with their companion, Emil
Roeskie, who is no older, were cap
tured near Liverpool, Ind, Friday
after fight in which they battled
against policemen, railroad detectives,
railroad laborers and farmers. One
man was killed, another fatally
wounded and all three Of the young
bandits were wounded, but not serl-
ously.
The dead: T. J. Sovea, brakeman
on the Pennsylvania railroad. Wound
ed: Joseph Driscoil, detective on
Chicago police force; shot through ao-
douen and can live but short time.
Matthew thinner, detective on Chica-
20 police force; shot in head and arm.
Neidermier was wounded in the hand
BY birdshot; Van Dine was similarly
injured and sustained in addition a
flesh wound in the left thigh. Roeskie
was shot in the right hip.
The three men we're wanted by the
police for completely in the murders
at the car barns ofxthe Chicago City
Railway company on.;Aug. 30, when
TWO men were killed, third badly
wounded and 81, ,250 stolen. GuStave
Marx, who last Saturday night muir
dered Officer John Quinn when the
policeman endeavored to place him
under arrest, confessed after his cap
ture that be, in company with the
three men, had committed the crimes
at the barns.
The hunt for Van Dine, Neid-
ecmier and Roeskie has been hot ever
since. Although they knew that the
entire police force was looking for
them the three men remained in the
city until Wednesday morning. We
were laying for fellow that was a
witness against Marx" said Van
Dine. On wednesday they left
Chicago, going to dugout made near
Nillers Station, Ind, where they were
surprised by the police Friday morn
ing. :,
Both parties opened fire and Driscoll
fell. Van Dine and Roeskie rushed
out, followed a few minutes later BY
Neidermier. The latter ran to the
tracks of the Michigan Central rail,
road and throwing himself fat on the
roadbed steadied his arm on the raj.
as he kept up a rapid fire with three
reyolvers. RueSkie ran for the BUSH
but Van Dine retreated slowly al
though the air around him was filled
with outlets and the snow at his feet
was kicked up by them. he is "a splen.
did narksman, and catching sight OF
Detective thinner, who was be-
hind tree, he fred, thinner
went down with bullet in the head.
as he fell Van Dine fred again ano
the second bullet tore through Zim-
mer's arm.
The detectives fred constantly but
the bandits escaped. After running
about mile across country they
came to the tracks Of the Pennsylvania
railroad. A switch engnine with a
train Of cars was close at hand and,
hurrying up to it, tie men ordered
Brakeman Sovea to uncouple the train
from the locomotive He refused ano
attempted to take Niedermier's reyol-
yer from him. The latter instantly
sent a bullet through the breakman's
brain, laying him dead in the snow.
Springing past Sovea's body the
bandits mounted the locomotive With
reyol1ers in hand and ordered the
engineer to move out in hurry,
which be did, going in the direction
Of Liverpool, Ind. After two miles
had been covered the men ordered the
engineer to slow down and leaping to
the ground disappeared in the woods.
After the train had carried Van
Dine and Niedermier away Detective
Sheehan hurried to the nearest tele-
graph station and wired Chief Of Po-
lice O'Neil, asking that men be sent
out with rifles. The message met
with a prompt response, and in a
short time Assistant Chief of Police
Schuettler and so officers, armed with
rifles, were on the way to Miller'S by
special train. Capt. Briggs of the
detective service Of the Pennsylvania
railway vas given orders to get the
three men dead or alive. He and his
men were of toward Liverpool.
When the bandits left the train
they were nearly exhausted and un-
able to travel. It was easy to track
them in the new fallen snow and the
hunt was speedily closed. The men
were seen as they lodged about the
farmers, most Of whom were armed
with double barreled shotguns. opened
FIRE on them. Niedermier received a
charge full in the head and the blood
streamed down his face and into bis
eyes, binding him so that be could
hardly see. a shot grazed Van Dimes
head, and his wounded leg was weak
ening. The posse was closing in on
all sides. There was no escape and it
was evident to both men that the
time had come either to surrender or
to fight it to the death, Van Dine said
in discussing his surrender: The jig
was up for US, no matter how many
we killed. ] says to Pete: Well,
what do you think?' he nodded his
head and dropped his guns and that