The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-27
CAR BARN BANDITS
STAND OFF POLICE
Men Thought to Have Been Implicated in Car
Barn Murders Surrounded
But Get Away.
They Kill Brakeman, Moay Wound Detective and Seriously
Injure Third ManMany Shots Are Exchanged-Batte
in tho Woods About Forty M lies From Chicago

The men were trapped by Detective
John +. Sheehan at the head Of ten
other detectives, who were sent to
Indiana Sunday night on tip that
in Pine, seven miles from Miller, which
is about thirty-seven miles from Chi
cago, the two men were seen to enter
| q grocery store. One made pur-
chase and the buyer had difficulty
in getting his money from his pocket.
so large was the roll. They fitted the
description of the bandits. Word was
dispatched to Chief O'Neill.
! Sheehan and his men arrived at
| Pine, where the information con-
| was on the right trail. The pair were
| finally located In the dugout near the
Baltimore & Ohio tracks, near Miller.
Bandits Open Fire.
! The desperadoes realized that they
were cornered and opened IRE on their
pursuers. The latter replied, but con-
fined themselves chiefly to keeping the
! bandits we'll in hand until reinforce
ments could arrive. Sheehan COM
municated with Chief O'Neill and de-
clared a positive belief that the pair
surrounded were the right men, Then
came the bandits attempt to escape
and resultant wounding of Detectives
! thinner and Driscoll.
The report reached the chief just
i as he was preparing to send out four
teen detectives under Assistant Chief
! Schuettler. The detail was instant
1 ly increased to fifty, and they were
rushed to a special train.
1.Shoot to KILL
"Shoot to KILL Chief O'Neill stern
ly ordered.
l Following the attempt to escape
and the wounding of the two detec-
tives. the shooting did not cease.
! Over a hundred shots were ex-
changed. The police were forced to
1 fight at a disadvantage, having a rail-
road embankment as their only pro-
I lection. The fugitives remained hid
j den, their rifles alone showing.
The scene would stage the widest
q of vendettas. Aftersa study OF the sur
i roundings Detective Sheehan sent
4 word that the dugout or cave had
q been picked out as refuge by the
try to starve the men out we will
have q long time doing tt. The sit
. uation Of the cave, the tracks in the
snow and the bravado Of the men
make me think that it is well stocked
with both provisions and ammunition
I think that Vandine and Niedemeyer
. deliberately picked out the spot"
i May Have Got Away.
Chief of Police O'Neill this after
II noon received word from the zPenn-
sylvania railroad that apparently the
bandits had escaped. The report said
! that three men, bloody and dishev-
) eled, held up a train on the Penn
sylvania at East To1leston, Ind. -sao OF
/ and killed a brakeman and forced the
. train to carry the trio to Liverpool,
Ind, where the trio jumped from
the train and headed for the Michi-
gan Central tracks.
About the time that the reports Of
the supposed escape Of the bandits
were received the train bearing De-
5 tectives Joseph B. Driscon shot in
the stomach and mortally wounded,
and Sergeant Detective Mathew Zim-
E mer, brother Of Alderman thinner,
: shot in the head and arm, arrived in
t Chicago.
8 Ambulances were in readiness and
$ Detective Driscoll was taken to Mercy
hospital. He was unconscious and 1t
1 was said that he could not live.
8 Detective thinner was taken to his
: home. His arm was broken and his
ahead bleeding, but he will live.