Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-04-25

and very severely handled, his face
being cut ard battered The police
rushed to the scene and later demand.
ed Hay wood as a prisoner. but Gen.
Fell refused to give him up. saying he
was military offender, end he was
taken tc the Oxford hotel locked In a
room and placed under guard.
The incident caused great excite
ment. aud for a tine 1t lacked as II
there might be a conflict between the
( police CT the city and the military CT
! the state
The Oxford hotel is now under
| guard.
CHICAGO. April 2l.--The Railway
/ Passengers association have declared
war against the ticket scalpers Pros
ecution has been engaged to begin the
| night and injunctions will be asked
from both the federal and state courts
restraining ticket sellers from dealing
in tickets which have been issued un.
der contract to purchasers, making
, them non-transferable.
CLAY CITY. Ind. April 2l.-The
Farmers and Merchants bank was
visited by cracksmen today and they
secured $4,000. The safe and parts OF
! the building were demolished by dy.
| Mantle.
HOUSTON. Tex, April 21-San ia
cinto day is being generally observed
in Texas today. Sixty-eight years ago
General Sam Houston won the indie.
pendence OF Texas by his victory over
Santa Anna.
CHICAGO, April 22-petcr Neider-
meter Harvey Van Dine and Gustave
Marx, the three notorious murderers,
paid the death penalty for their many
| erimes on the gallows today
Neidermeier, weak from his double
attempt at suicide. but maintaining
his offensive air OF bravado to the last,
iropped through the trap first. He re.
fused to walk to the scaffold and was
| carried, and held up while being strap
ped 10 placed on the chair which fell
with him at 1926. Marx died at
ll:l6. Van Dine was hanged at 4 05
Neither Marx or Van Dine made any
demonstration, being escorted to the
scaffold by priest
Marx and Van Dine slept peacefully
all night, but Neidermeier sat up.
smoking cigarettes continually. With
iwo sisters of mercy the former two
prayed for an hour this morning in
the prison chapel
The families of the youths have de-
cided 10 leave the bodies of the Grim.
lnals at the undertaker's until Mon
tau ~ ait
by obtaining permission from the fam
lies. II is expected that an admis-
sion will be charged
Thousands surrounded the Jail dur
ing the execution. so policemen having
difficulty in restraining the curious,
How the Gang Killed and Robbed.
Never before in Chicago. and per
haps never in all the country, have 80
many desperate crimes been crowded
| into so short a time as was the case
| Of Harvey Van Dine. Peter Nelder
1 meier, Gustav Marx, and the fourth
| member of the gang. Emil Roeski, who
| obtained separate trial and Is now
| confined in the same jail where his
| three partners in crime were executed
today. The four youths had Grim.
lnal history extending over less than
five months, with the exception Of
small offenses Of larceny. In that time
| they killed seven men. wounded sev-
1 eral others, robbed a dozen saloons,
| a railroad ticket Office, the car barns
| at Sixty-first and State streets, and at.
tempted to dynamite train. Five OF
the murders were committed within
| six months.
So far as is told by police reports
and the confessions of the men, the
| first crime of note committed by them
| was the robbery OF the Claybourn
| Junction station of the Northwestern
railway July 3 last. Neidermeier and
| Roeski carried out this robbery. The
| ticket agent and telegraph operator
We're in the station when the men
pointed revolver through the lattice
! work and demanded the money In the
drawer. The ticket agent reached for
' a revolver and was shot through the
body but not mortally hurt. The rob
bers secured $40. Less than a week
! later Van Dine, Roesk and Marx rob-
| bed saloon in Ashland avenue. lining
up the customers before the bar and
! shooting and killing young man
named Otto Rauder who started to
run. The following night. July 10
Van Dine and Roeskl went to sa-
J loon in Addison avenue Louis Cohen
the bartender. was alone. and the men
had little trouble in securing $25. II
was In this saloon that Marx later
shot Detective John Quinn. Two
nights later Van Dine and Roesk held
up the saloon of Charles Alvin. There
were FIVE men besides the bartender
in the place when the youths entered
with handkerchiefs over their faces
One hundred dollars was taken from
the cash register.
Roeski and Van Dine on July &c
found Peter Cork alone in his saloon
in Milwaukee avenue. When con
fronted by the robbers the saloon
keeper crouched behind the bar and
reached for revolver. Before hs
could secure It four shots had beer
fired at him. one of the bullets strik
ing him in the head. The murder ol