The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-28
YOUNG BANDITS
Fight OFFICERS
Continued From First Page.

OF LnOSe wanted Tor the car Darn muir
ders were living in the dugout. ss,-
The police sent eight men-Deteet-
ives thinner Deroche, Qualley,
Gleason, Sheehan, Driscoll, Banner
and Hughes-to Indiana; Sheehan be-
ing in charge of the squad.
The men reached the dugout at s
o'clock, guided by Reichers. AS soon
as they were in sight of the place the
officers advanced in a circle upon the
dugout, where the three robbers were
supposed to be concealed.
AS Sheehan spoke Dr1scoll hurled
chunk of wood at the dugout. In
stantly there was a flash, report,
and Driscoll fell, shot through the
abdomen. One Of his fellow officers
stopped to raise him and the other
six opened fire on the dugout, from
which the shots were now coming
thick and fast.
Make a Sortie.
While the fire was at It's hottest
Vandine and Roeski rushed out fol-
lowed by Niedermeier The latter ran
to the tracks of the Michigan Central
railway and throwing himself fiat on
the road bed steadied his aim on the
rail as he kept up a rapid fire with
three revolvers. Roeski ran from the
brush, but Vandine retreated slowly.
He is a splendid marksman and. catch
ing sight of Detective thinner, who
was behind a tree, he fired. thinner
went down with a bullet in the head.
AS he fell Vandine fired again and the
second bullet tore through Zimmer's
arm.
Roeski had by this time disappeared
and Vandine and Niedermeier made a
run for freedom. The detectives fired
constantly, but the bandits escaped.
: After running a mile across country
they came to the tracks of the Penn
sylvania railway. A switch engine
with a train of cars were close at hand
and hurrying to it, the men ordered
Brakeman Sovea to uncouple the train
from the locomotive. He refused and
attempted to take Niedermeier's re-
volver from him. The latter instantly
sent bullet through the brakeman's
brain, laying him dead in the snow.
Springing past Sovea's body, the bandits
mounted the locomotive with revolt
vers in hand and ordered the engineer
to move out in hurry, which he did,
going in the direction of Liverpool,
Ind. After two miles had been cover
ed, the men ordered the engineer to
slow down, and leaping to the ground,
disappeared in the woods.
Man Hunt Organized.
Detective Sheehan hurried to the
nearest telegraph station and wired to
Chief of Police O'Neil. asking that men
be sent out with rifles. Assistant Chief
Of Police Schuettler and fifty officers
armed with rifles were on the way to
Miller's. Capt. Briggs, of the detective
service of the Pennsylvania road, was
given a special train and with orders
to take no chances, spare no expense
and take the three men dead or alive,
he and his men were off toward Liver
pool.
By the time the two painting fugi-
tives rushed up to the locomotives
hundred farmers and railway laborers
hind with the Chicago detectives, al
though one farmer armed with shot
gun got in his work as the train start
ed away Catching sight of Vandine
as he poked his face through the cab
window, he turned loose with both
barrels. A number Of shot struck.
Vandine in the head and face and one
hit him in the throat, causing him
trouble w
When they left the train both men
were nearly exhausted and unable to
travel. The country at that place Is
rough and cut up by gravel pits. The
farmers, railway laborers and officers
of the Pennsylvania railway were COM
ing UP fast and soon were close on the
fugitives' heels. The men were seen as
they lodged about in the sand dunes,
and the farmers, most of whom We're
armed with double barreled shotguns,
closed on them. Nefdermeier received
charge full in the head. The shot
grazed Vandine's head carrying off
some of his hair. The posse was clos
ing in on all sides.
Conclude to Surrender.
Both men were heavily armed and
able to take more lives before they lost
their own, but, as Vandine said to-;
night:
"There would have been no good in
that, as we never shot anybody unless
we had to, and to kill any of those fell
lows would not have let me off. The
Jig was UP for US, no matter how many
we killed. I said to Pete: Well, what
do you think?' He nodded his head
and dropped his guns and that's how
they got u.s." ~
Vandine, who has served In the army
in the Philippines, shows his military
training in many ways.
The men were at once hurried to
Chicago. None Of the prisoners show
ed any bravado and did no boasting.
They showed not the slightest hesita-.
ton in confessing to their crimes. Their
demeanor was more that of boys who
had been caught pilfering. Vandine
sat upright, talked freely, showing in
word and bearing the courage that he
has revealed throughout. Neidermeier
sat with his head on his hands. His
large brown eyes were bent on the
floor, and he did no talking except to
corroborate some statement made by
Vandine. When Vandine said, Pete