Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-12-04
BANDITS CAPTURED.
DESPERATE GANG OF CHICAGO
YOUTHS COMMITTED MANY GRIMES.
Killed One Man and Seriously Wounded
Two Others In Their Final Battle With
Officers and Posse.

Killed One Man and Seriously Wounded
Two Others In Their Final Battle With
officers and Posse.
The most desperate man hunt in the
history of Chicago ended Friday night
when Harvey Van Dine, Peter Nieder-
meier, and Emil Roeski were captured and
lodged in the Harrison street Jail
For ten hours the three young desper-
ADDE'S kept attachments of the Chicago
police at bay in the underbrush and sand
dunes of Northern Indiana After NOR
tally injuring Policeman John B. Driscoll
and twice wounding Detective Sergeant
Matthew thinner. they murdered a rail
road brakeman and took possession of a
switch engine, which Van Dine ran to
Liverpool where they abandoned it
ana entered the woods again, believing
themselves beyond immediate pursuit
wounded and bleeding from bullets re-
ceived in a morning battle with the
police, Van Dine ana Niedermeier were
finally captured, while Roeski sneaked
away from his companions and sought
refuge in railroad station, where he
was overtaken and captured while asleep.
In sensational features the chase ri
vailed that of the James and Younger
brothers after the robbery of the North
field, Mimi, bank, and the more recent
pursuit of the bandit Tracy in the West
ern bad lands.
The three men were wanted for COM
plicity in the murder at the car barns Of
the Chicago City railroad company, Aug
30, when two men were killed, a third
badly wounded and $500 stolen from the
company Gustav Marx, one of their
pals, was arrested Saturday night after
he had killed officer John Quinn. who
had tried to arrest him Marx made a
full confession. and the officers at once
began search for the other three ban
anfH ~oI hot
wering the description of those wanted
We're hiding in a dug out near Clark sta
ton Indiana, and eight detectives were
sent there to Investigate. Nobody was
seen near the dug out and as the de-
tectives approached it one of them, Dris-
coll threw a piece of wood against the
door Instantly there was a flash. a re-
port and Driscoll fell in heap, shot
through the abdomen.
one of his fellow officers stopped to raise
him and the other six opened fire on the
dug out from which the shots were now
coming thick and fast While the fire
was at its hottest. Van Dine and Roeski
rushed out, followed minute later by
Niedermeier The latter ran to the
tracks of the Michigan Central railroad
and. throwing himself fiat on the road
bed. steadied his arm on the rail as he
kept up rapid fire with three revolvers.
Roeski ran for the brush. but Van Dine
retreated slowly, although the air around
him was filled with bullets and the snow
At his feet was kicked nm nv them Uc
is splendid marksman and catching
sight of Detective thinner. who was be-
hind a tree. he fired thinner went down
with bullet in the head AS he fell Van
Dine fired again and the second bullet
tore through Zimmers arm.
poeski nod IN, tbis tive disor,aa, rod
and Van Dine and Niedermeier placinp
their REVIEWERS in their nonkats made -
RIM for freedom Tho detectives frod
CONSTANTLY brt the bandits escaned A.
tor runri,g ahout a r,iic acroes tba co,,,,
ia. th,,. cam. tn tho tr,cl,s ~ tho pa,,
s,.lvoni. r1ilrood switch arsir., y,itb
a train If cars was close AT hand and
hurrvinp mn to il tho mon ordered BRAKE
man Sovea to uncounln the train fror, tho
| locomotive He refused and attemnted IA
take Niedarmeiar's revolver from him Tbe
| latter irstantlv cont n b,llat tbrougb tho
| brakeman's brain LAYING him dead in tho
| snow Swinging mast Sovea's bodv tho
| bandits haunted tho Locomotive with re-
| volvers in hand and ordered the engineer
| 10 move o,,t In n h,,rr, witch ba ala 90.
inc in tho dlraction ~ 7 ivtrnooi Ind e.
| Ter two miles mad baan covered tho r,ar
ordered the engineer 70 SLOW down and
leaning to The ground they disonnearad
| in The wood
| Farmers living near tho soara rusbad
| out with their shot guns and as tho ha ~
| ats rode away in the locomotive ono orr
| Loose With hoth harreIs ~ HE ,un wound :
| cd Won D,re in the faca and 1ecl, WIZ,
| tho mon Ieft the train tba, str,,cl, irto a
| rolgb country of eand duras ord tba
| farmers we're soon in close nI,rsI,it md
one shot struck Niedermeiar in the bead
| md Van nine sustoinad orotber Vienna
| in tho loo Fiftv detectives s,unonad
| fror Cbieago ioinad In tho cbase 70
| -athar r,itb a iorTa ,,,r,har ~ raiirood
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| Tiedarraiey SOW that tbev yrora sur-
| ronndad and that Ngbtiny Nos usalass
| tbev s,,rrendered
Var Dinn who has served in tho phil
| inninas and shows bis militarv training
| IN many uavs was nm of scorr for tbe