Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-28
FUGITIVE CHICAGO STREET Cab
BARN ROBBERS COMMIT
MORE CRIMES.
TWO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT
After Killing Chicago Detective and
Pennsylvania Railroad Brakenant
Bandits Are Caught BY Railroad la.
borers in Indiana.

Chicago, Nov. 27.vHarvey Van Dine
and Peter Neidmeier, accused of the
sensational murders and robbery at
the street car barns in Chicago, were
this morning supposed to have been
trapped in dugout near Miller's Sta
tion, Indiana. Assistant Chief OF Po-
lice Shuettler and fifty men went to
Miller's Station armed with Winches-
ter rifles and revolvers.
Battle With Police.
Reports from Miller's Station state
that in a fierce fusilade of shots be-
tween the local police and the men
in the dugout, two of the policemen
were seriously wounded.
Sure of Men.
Chief OF Police Sheehan, of Miller's
Station, in a telegram requesting aid
asked for physicians and a priest and
said there is no reason to doubt the
men surrounded are accomplices of
Gustave Marx, the self confessed BAN
dit now under arrest here.
In a Wild Country.
The dugout is in a wild section Of
country near the shore of Lake Michi-
gan and bordering on vast swamps
that stretch to the southwark. A few
residents near the scene are reported
to have rallied to the aid of the police
and several volleys from their rifles
were sent into the dugout but the ban-
dts kept under cover. 1t is thought
one of the bandits was injured.
chieagoans Do Trailing.
Later reports say that the bandits
We're surrounded after being tracked
! aeross the sand in Indiana slonls tha..
lake shore The trailing was done by
local Indiana officers as was at first
supposed.
Two Officers Shot.
After being watched all night by de-
| tectives the bandits this morning made
a bold attempt to escape and shot De-
tectives thinner and Driscoll.
Following the attempt to escape and
the wounding of the detectives, the
| exchange of bullets was continued for
hours, but the detectives and the ban-
dts were increasingly wary and
| neither side scored n
Wounded Men Taken Home.
| The train bearing Detective Joseph
I B. Driscoll who was shot in the stom-
| ach and mortally wounded and Ser
geant of Detectives Matthew thinner
a brother of Alderman Zimmer who is
shot in the head and arm, arrived in
Chicago this afternoon.
Bandits Escape.
The men escaped from the dugoI3
before the arrival Capt Schueut-
tier and the other officers.
Railroad Company Active.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has sent telegram along it's line CALI
ing for volunteers to assist in round.
ing UP the fugitives.
Escape and Kill Railroad Man.
Chief of Police ONeill this after.
noon received word from the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co., that apparent
ly the bandits had escaped from the
posse at the dugout. The report that
three men bloody and disheveled held
up train on the Pennsylvania road
at East Tolleston, Ind.,, shot and kill
I ed brakeman and forced the train
urew to carry the trio to Liverpool.
Indiana. At Liverpool the bandits
jumped from the train and headed for
| the Michigan Central tracks.
Two Are Captured.
Two of the bandits were captured
near East Tollston by railroad hands
this afternoon. The third man escaped
Both OF the prisoners are wounded.