The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-02
CHICAGO POLICE IN
FIGHT WITH BANDITS
Outlaws Had Been Trapped
In an Old Shanty,
TWO POLICEMEN ARE woUNpAn

TWO POLICEMEN ARE WOUNphh
Harvey Van Dine and Peter Nieden
mior, Accused Of Sensational Robber
,ies, Defy Chicago Police and Fu
rIous Battle Was Wagcd.
Chicago, Nov. 27.--Harvey VanDine
and Peter Niedenmier, accused Of sen
sational roaberies and murders al
street car barns In Chicago, were
trapped in a dugout near Miller Sta
ton, Ind. The dugout was surround
cd by local police. Urgent telegrama
for help reached Assistant Chief Oh
Police Schuettler today and so men
lett at once for Miller Station
A furious battle Is said to have been
wased between the men In the dugolb
and the local police and that two OF
the latter were shot.
With the telegram came requests for
q physician and priest.
Chief OF Police Sheehan, of Miller
station, In his telegram reported that
ne had no reason to doubt that the mon
surrounded were the accomplices OF
Gustav Marx, the self-confessed bandit,
VINO mas been under arrest in Chicago
for several days.
Ahe physician, q priest and 80. men
wore assembled and to get khe 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 breal1nock speed to the Hi
nois Central station. The train was
scheduled to go to South Chicago
where special over the Baltimore and
Ohio was to take up the run to Miller
Station.
The dugout fs In a wild section OF
country near tho shore Of Lake Mich.
lsan and bordering the vast swamps
that stretch to the southwaM.
Several volleys from rifles we're sent
Into the dugout, but the bandits kent
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 whore they were framed
was a dugout or hunters rude hut
tracking Of the bandits was done bv 9
detail Of Chicago detectives. not local
indiana officers. as at first supposed.
Watched all night by the detectivea
the bandits today made a bold attem nj
To escape and shot two OF the would.
be captors, one seriously. The re-
port OF the shooting reached ChieI
ONeill just as he was preparing tc
send out IA detectives under Chief
Schuettler. The detail was instantlr
increased to SO men, and thew were
rushed to special train.
Shoot to kill!" Chief O'Neiu Stern
~ ordered the so men to do do. and on
the way to the Miller Station Assistan,
Chief Schucttler repeated the orde,
emphatically.
Chief Of Police O'Neill this afternoon
received word from the Pennsylvania
rallroad that apparently the bandits
hao escaped from the posse at the duo,
out near Miilers Station. The renort
SAD that three men, bloody AMI dis
heVeled, heldup train on the Penn
sylVania at, East Tolleston. Ind and
shot a brakeman and had forced the
Train to carry the trio to LIvern,ol
IND. Here the mon jumped from tho
train and headed for the Michipan
Central tracks.
About the time that those renorts
were received the train bearing De
tectfves Joseph B. Driscoll shot IN
the stomach, and mortally wounded
ana Sergeant Detective Mathew Z,no,
mer, shot in the head and arm. arrived
IN chicago and were taken to q hos
pital. - ''''
me country surrounding the cave
Is covered with six or eight incbea -,
snow. It was tho snow which an
aDied the detectives to track tho hon,
alts' The cave Is on a little rico T.,
the prairie and in daylight commando
Wow OF the surrounding country wIt,,
ene exception Of little strip alonp
which the railroad track runs, r. 'was
along this track that the ofp,cors -
the darkness took up their wait o1r,.n,
frozen from cold. "''''''
Enraged at the woundtno - A..
comrades, the detectives naaaed ~.
time between shots trying r. thtnr
oi some way to circumyent on1 oa.,
ture the bandits. 0"p