Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-27
ON SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
'olleys Sent Into the Dugout, but Out.
laws Kept Under Cover, Receiving
Little or No Harm.
SHOOT TO KILL" CHIEFS ORDER.
The Hunted Men Apparently Made
Their Escape, Killing Brakeman
To Get Away.

Chicago, Nov. 21.-- Harvey Van Dyke
and Peter Niedemeler. accused OF sem
sational murders and robberles at street
car barns In Chicago are supposed TO
have been trapped IN dugout near
Miller station, Ind The dugout has
been surrounded by police. Urgent tele.
grams for help reached here today, and
90 men under Capt schuettler. assist
ant chief Of police, left at once for Mil
Ter station, armed with Winchester RI
fies and revolvers.
A FUsILADE OF SHOTS.
Reports from the place say that a
fnsilade of shots has been exchanged
between the men In the dugout and the
local police.
Two of the latter have been wounded
seriously
The battle is said 10 have been n
furious one.
With the kilograms came requests for
a physician and a priest The officer
sending the telegram. Sheehan OF chi
cago, In his telegram, reported that he
had no reason TO doubt that the men
surrounded are accomplices of Gustav
Marx, the selfconfessed bandit who has
been under arrest in Chicago for several
days.
Fifty policemen were hurriedly dis
patched from this city on special
train.
THE DUGOUT
The dugout IL IN a wild section OF
country on the shore OF Lake Michigan.
and bordering the vast swamps thar
stretch to the southwark. The few resi-
dents near the scene are reported %
have rallied to the aid OF the police.
Several volleys from rifles were sent in
to the dugout, but the bandits kept un.
der cover II is thought that one Of the
bandits was injured.
The wounded policemen we're taken
to Miller station and arrangements
made to flag fast train to hurry the
victims 70 Chicago.
BANDITS SURROUNDED.
The bandits were surrounded after
having been tracked across the sand
dunes Of Indiana along the lake shore
The place where they were trapped
was so-called dugout or hunters
rude hut, The trailing Of the bandits
was done by detail of Chicago detec-
tives, not local Indiana officers as ut
first reported. Watched all night by
the detectives. the bandits today
made "A bold attempt to escape and shot
two OF the would-bc captors, one serl-
ously.
The report OF the shooting reached
Chief O'Nell just as he was preparing
10 send out IA detectives under assist
ant Chief SChuettler. The detail was
instantly increased TO so men and they
were rushed to a special train.
SHOOT TO KILL"
Shoot TO kll," Chief O'Nell slernly
ordered the so and on the way 10 MIL
ler station Assistant chief Schuettler
repeated the order emphatically.
The men We're trapped by Detective
John r. Shehan, at the head of 10 9TH
en- detectives. They were seen in the
vicinity Sunday and through tip re-
ceived from man from Pine Ind, a
town seven miles from Miller station.
who had seen one of the men display
a big roll OF bills. The pair were
finally located In the dugout near the
r.. g o. tspcks at short distance from
Miller station The desperndocs real
lied that they were corncred
and opened fire on their
captors The latter replied with inter.
Yet Jul h'HAH'h llttHlNfiNfN fniNiI 10
keeping the bandits wen IN hand un.
III achievements could arrive. Then
the bandits attempted TO escape and
resulted in the woundlnR OF Detectives
thinner and Driscoll. The exchange
OF bullets continued for hours, but
both the detectives and bandits were
increasingly wary ana neither side
scored over a hundred shots We're
exchanged The police We're forced
to light at a. disadvantage. having the
ombankmcut OF t.e railroad tracks
as their only protection. The fugitlves
remained hidden. their rifles alone
showing.
SCENE or SHOOTING.
The scene Of the shooting would stage
the widest Of vendettas. Detective
Sheehan said ~ am firmly OF tho
opinion that II we try to starye the
men out we win have a long time do.
ing u. The situation Of the cave, the
tracks In the snow and the brayado OF
the men make me think that II ia
we'll stocked with both provisions and
ammunition Evidently the bandits
hnd selected the cave as place OF
refuge long ago
BANDITS ESCAPE.
Chief OF Police 'oNeil this afternoon
received word from the Pennsylvania
railroad that apparently the bandits
had escaped from the posse at the dug
out near Miller station The report
said that three men, bloody and dis
heyeled. held up a train on the Penn
sylvania rcilroad at East Tolleston.
IND. and shot and killed n brakeman
ana had forced the train 20 carry the
trio of ASSISTANTS TO Liverpool. Ind..
where the trio jumped from the train
aud headed FOR the Michigan Central
tracks.
The description OF the third man in
the party Is that Of Emil Roeskl. ono
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