Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-28
BANDITS KILL NINE.
Gar Barn Murderers Captured
 After Fierce Fighting.
SHOT BRAKEMAN DEAD, SEIZED TRAIN
Career of Gang of Chicago Despera- does at Last Brought to Close. BenrdIess Boys COOIIy Confess
 to & Long List of Crimes.


 BenrdIeSs Boys COOIIy Confess to a Long List of Crimes.
 CHICAGO, Nov. 2S.-Chained wrist to wrist, their hair matted with dried blood, their clothing covered with dust and dirt, two beardloss boys, Peter Niedermeier and HarTGy Van Dine, sat in the presence of Mayor Harrison and Chief of Police ONeil calmly confess ing to their share in a three months career of crime which has included nine murders, the woundtng of i've oth- CT men and a long series of robberies. The two young bandits, neither of whom is over twenty-one years of age, together with their companion, Emil Roeski, who is no older, were captured near Liverpool, Ind, after a fight in which they battled against policemen, railroad detectives, railroad laborers and farmers. One man was killed, an- other fatally wounded, and all three of the young bandits were wounded, but not seriously.
 The dead: T. J. Sovea, brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad. The Wound ed Joseph Driscoll, detective on the Chicago police force, shot through the ] abdomen and can live but short time; Matthew Zimmer, detective on the Chi- cago police force, shot in head and ! arm.
 Niedermeier was wounded in the hand by bird shot. Van Dine was sim ilarly injured and sustained in addi- tion flesh wound in the left thigh. Roeski was shot in the right hip His wound is the most serious of any 1n- hicted upon the three men, but was not sufficiently serious to prevent him from travelling a long distance after receiv- ing it.
 The three men were wanted by the police for complicity in the murders at the car barns of the Chicago City Railroad company, when two men were killed, third badly wounded and $2,- 25O stolen from the company. Gus tave Marx, who last Saturday night murdered Officer John Quinn, when the policeman endeavored to place him un- der 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 Roesbi 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 a fellow that was witness against Marx" said Van Dine. On Wednesday they left Chica- go, going to dugout made by railroad laborers near the tracks of the Michi- gan Central railroad near Millers Sta ton, Ind. They spent the night in an- other dugout near Millers Station, and there they were surprised by the po- lice early yesterday.
 Word was brought to the police by T. $. Reichers, a schoolteacher near Clark Station, Ind, that three men an- swering the description of those want ed for the car barn murders were Hv- ing in the dugout Other stories placed the men near Waukegan, H., and the police, placing no great reliance in any of the rumors, sent only eight men, Detectives Zimmer, De Roche, Dudley, Gleason, Sheehan, Driscoll, Baumer and Hughes, to Indiana, Sheehan being placed in charge of the squad.
 The men reached the dugout at about o'clock, guided by Reichers. As soon as they were in sight of the place the 
 dugout where the robbers were SUD- posed to be concealed. Driscoll, who was walking in closer than the others, called out:
 Tt doesn't look as though there is anybody in there.''
 Don't anybody fire,' ordered Shee- han, until we know if-they are the right people"
 AS Sheehan spoke Driscoll picked up q chunk of wood and hurled it at the dugout. Instantly there was flash, a report, and DriscolI fell in a heap, shot through the abdomen. One of his fel- low officers stopped to raise him, and the other six opened fire on the dugout, from which the shots were now com ing thick and fast. While the fire was at it's hottest Van Dine and Roeski rushed out, followed a few minutes later by Niedermeier. The latter ran to the tracks of the Michigan Central railroad and, throwing himself flat on the roadbed, steadied his arm on the rail as he kept up a rapid fire.
 Roeski ran for the brush, but Van Dine retreated slowly, although the air around him was filled with bullets
  up by them. He is a splendid marks man, and, catching sight of Detective Zimmer. who was behind tree, he fired. Trimmer went down with bull let in his head. As he fell Van Dine fired again, and the second bullet tore through Zimmer's arm.
 After his arrest Van Dine said: "Hic head and his arm were all could see hit all there was of him."
 Roeski had by this time disappeared and Van Dine and Niedermeier, plac ing their revolvers in their pockets made a run for freedom. The detec tiVes fired constantly, but the bandits escaped. After running about mile across the country they came to tho tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad. switch engine with train of cars wa! 1 OIosO of hand h11T.rvino nm tvN if