The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-12-04

Ca.e>-so. November 3O.-The youthful
self rOnfess@d murderers and train rob-
ue-s- Peter N-idermeier. Harvey Van
Dr-H. Gustav Marx and Emil Roeski,
y."re slrraIiEHed IN court tonight. Marx
pleaded guilty 10 all the charges
--E.I1st him. but his three saccompLces
2leId~G not guilty
During The afternoon the prisoners
ar-~- removed from the Harrison police
s-.LiloH 10 the county Jail, where they
..--- remain until brought to trial
No excitement marked the trip to the
-.--- Zach prisoner was placed in a
separate patrol wagon and was guard
ri - seven policemen ana TWO deputy
sl~r-ffs- During the journey Roeski
gyked with one Of the policemen and
=lrcasIieaIIy said.
would like to have you alone for
Just one minute
Chief OF Police O'NeilI, in person has
frustrated Il plan by which Peter Neid-
ermelT one Of the car barn bandits
sought 70 escape from the Harrison
street station during an interview with
the chief As q result Of the incident,
however, the police today redoubled the
cell in which NeiderE2ier is locked.
Neidcruc.rr all but carried out his
p.an 10 make i dash for liberty. He
craftiIy arranged to meet Chief O'NeiI
alone IL Inspector Lawns office, osten-
sIbly 10 make a number of confessions,
.-ni while EesticuIatug in illustration
Try - leap through the window to the
street
HIS plan was frustrated by the fore
s-@-t % O'NeIu who before permitting
tae interviews stationed three armed de-
'~-uTeS outside the window through
wAtca The bandit hoped to escape.
EeldrrIncIer seeing his plan checked,
~--a.1ei that the interview need go
lp further. and that ne was ready to
return 10 MS cell
We will all walk to the scaffcld
without u tremer'
Ih.s Wls the. statement made today
~ tIe uurderers. Marx, VanDein,
NeIdermeIer and RoesEli, as they sat in
their cells and discussed their probable
rate
Van Dein. it IS said, Will plead in
sanity This plea may be also enter
cained by the other bandits Van
Dein - said TO have near relative
who IS in an asylum.
4 great grand father is said to have
murdered his wife and daughter In
Maine and to have been adjudged in
sane and sent 10 an asylum, in which
- died. Van Dein, while not denying
this report would not confirm it.
R0csEi said that he heard of it from
FLn Dein in the Indiana dugout.
Van Dein's mother has been working
Tor charitable organizations for several
years devotiuS much time to organizing
boys clubs, the purpose of which was
10 keep boys from saloons, smoking and
reading iurid literature. She told PO-
Ice Inspector LlVine today that she
never suspected her son of any wrong
doing
GustIv Marx today told the police
Of IN attempt which he said the other
three members OF the robbers band had
made to take his life He declared that
The three shot at him when they were
planning one of the Ibortive attacks
On the money wagon of the American
Express Company.
The prisoners ScOn at the idea of a
hereafter Death ends all. is their
theory. Hell i on earth. Questioned
OF the subject today, Van Dein said:
When We die. it IS the end OF US.
This Is my belief and has always been.
Even when Il boy. l listened TO the
teachings % my mother regarding the
hereafter. 1 simply cannot believe in
~ after life. I e&u't see the reason in
t. When we're dead. we're dead. just
~ same as animals. They don't so TO
ANY heaven or hell do they? Why
should we? I respect the teachings of
the church. My mother is as good a
Christian A. ever
Was her example nothing TO you?"
! could not see things her way" he
replied Il never could"
You mean YOU would not, don't
YOU"
Wei. I dld not-that's all. I don't
So things as She did"
You have no renorse for the nuc-
iers you committed?"
4 cant feel 50 bad about il. When
people are dead-they are dead. When
drop, ITS the end OF me-
NJ ". B Brice. Of Wallace. was
sATrEOUE yesterdays visitors