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TO AID HIS MOTHER
BARGAINS WITH PO-
LICE FOR REWARDS.
CONFESSES MORE CRIMES
AND CLAIMS REWARDS FOR HIS
MOTHER.

Had COmmitted-Ofered to Make
IL Clean Breast of Everything If
Guaranteed That His Mother
Would Receive the Rewards.
Chicago, Nov. 29.-Peter Neidermier,
one of the members of the quartette
of young bandits, who for the past
six months have terrified Chicago, in
another confession to-day added several
more crimes to the long list already
charged against him and his compan-
ions, Van Diem, Marks and Roeski.
With parental love uppermost in his
of Police O'Neil of a score of train
hold ups, burglaries and other crimes
that he has committed, if the rewards
offered will only be given to his mother.
Il want to know that my mother
will be cared for after 1 am hung"
said the 21-year-old boy, who is now
the self-confessed murderer of five
men. Il am guilty of crimes of which
you know nothing, and for which inno-
cent men are now suffering. There
are rewards offered for my capture
and conviction. If you will guarantee
me these rewards will go to mother 1
will convict myself. 1 will confess
crimes that will startle you"
In order to make his word good,
Neidermier told of a few crimes which
he claimed to have committed. He
outlined them in such manner, Chief
O'Neil declared tonight, as only one
who was concerned in them could do.
Neidermier refused however, to di-
vulge the names of his partners in the
crimes referred to, pending proof that
his mother would get the reward.
His List of New Crimes.
A few of the additional crimes he
claims to have participated in are as
follows: Robbery of the Illinois Cen
trail Limited Express at Paducah, KY,
in which Barnes, one of the robbers,
cut his throat while surrounded in a
swamp. The others escaped.
Hold up of a stage coach a mile from
Butler, New, two years ago and rob-
berry of the mails.
Hold up and robbery of Chicago and
Northwestern passenger train near
Boone, Ia, six months ago.
Hold up and attempted robbery of
Baltimore and Ohio train at Edgmoor,
Ind, four years ago.
Minor hold ups and robberies in and
out of Chicago were mentioned by
Neidermier, but in all cases he was
careful to conceal the names of his
associates in crime, merely giving suf-
ficient outline of the crimes to warrant
Chief O'Neil in believing that Neider-
mier was telling the truth.
When Neidermier went back to his
cell it was with the assurance that
his mother would be bettered $500
financially.
Special Agent w. Riley of the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railroad prom
Used him that Mrs. Neidermier should
be given the reward of $500 for the
arrest and conviction of the ely
bourne station robberies after Neider-
mier detailed the robbery to them and
eXonerated a man named Dole, of st.
Louis, who is now under Indictment
Operator Dougherty and Ticket
Agent Lathrop, the victims of the ely
bourne station hold up, were present
during Neidermier's confession, going
over with him in detail the robbery
and the shooting of LathrOp.
His Story of the HOId-Up.
Neidermier detailed the Paducah,
KY, hold up perfectly, refusing to tell
names for the reason that none of the
Illinois Central detectives were pres
ent. He offered to tell Special Agent
O'Keefe the entire story of the daring
robbery and even show him the house
in Kentucky where he hid after the
robbery
Il stalled the train alone said
Neidermier. Then l entered the bag
gage car and threw out three sacks.
Barnes grabbed one of them. l was
lucky in getting away with my life.
his throat cut. He had the razor in
his hand that he committed suicide
with.
Before last May I spent three years
in hold ups and robberies outside Chi
cago, and if the rewards are forthcom-
ing for my mother I will make
clean breast of everything"
The police have been so appalled, by
Neidermier's confessions that they
hardly give credence to all his asser-
lions. 1t is thought that his anxiety
ov err his mothers welfare has prompted
him to make himself the author of
crimes he did not commit.
From the assertions made by
Neidermier and Van Dein to-day it is
said by the police that more arrests
will be made. Chief O'Neil tonight
asserted that there was a strong prob
ability that Neidermier and Van Dein
would tell of all their accomplices in
other crimes in which both men have
q acknowledged they had help.