Arizona republican., 1904-04-23
Hanging of the Chicago
 Gar Barn MurdererS
NEIDERMEIER THE WORST
Carried to the Scaffold, Snatched the Death Warrant and Pocketed It. The Crimes for Which the Trio of Youthful Bandits Atoned.

Chicago, April 22.-Atheist to the
 last, but seemingly unnerved complete
 ly Peter Neidermeier, the leader of the
 car barn bandits was hanged today
 in crime, Gustave Marx and Harvey
 Van Dine. who standing erect. kissed
 an image of Christ and died without
 Q tremor. The three executions were separate, twenty minutes apart, the same scaffold being used for all Neidemeier had to be carried to the | scafforld. The execution took place at
 1O:S5 o'clock. Weak and pale with a slight suggestion of a smile, the leader
 Of the bandits failed to carry out his boast to die before reaching the gal lows. It was found that Neidermeier
 was too weak to walk to the gaIlows.
 so he was carried and placed in the chair on the trap. When the trap ! sprung his neck was broken. i Previous to the execution, during the
 reading of the death warrant, Neider-
 meier snatched the paper from the
 chief deputy's hand and placed it in ] his pocket and made a remark in
 anger.
 | Shortly after Il o'clock Marx was led
 to the scaffold. He made no statement ! but his courage did not fail him. Har-
 vey Van Dine was hanged after a short interval. He was even cooler than [ either of the others. Like Marx, his
 neck was broken by the fall Marx
 and Van Dine embraced the Catholic
 faith. Neidermeier spurned spiritual | consolation.
 BLOODY BIOGRAPHIES. | The hanging of the youthful car barn bandits followed closely a period of crime of less than six months. Tn that time eight murders were commit ted, all attendant upon robberies or ef- forts to escape arrest.
 1 It was during an attempt to escape on a stolen train after an extraordinary battle in the swamps of northern In diana, just east of Chicago, that on ! November 27 of last year the capture of the gang was completed by the arrest of Neidermeier, Van Dine and Emil i Roesk, their associate, Marx having already been placed behind the bars to await trial
 1 The specific offence for which Van Dine, Neidermeier and Marx were tried and sentenced was the murder of Frank | Stewart, a clerk in the Chicago City Railway car barns, during a robbery there on the morning of August 30, 1909. James B. Johnson, a motorman, was also killed, and two persons were wounded. The bandits escaped after having secured S2,24O. Roeski was not concerned in this crime, but. after the conviction of his companions, was tried separately for one of the murders in which he was accused as the prin- cipal. He was convicted day before yesterday and sentenced to imprison-
 ment for life.
 1 Apprehension of the trio in Indiana , was brought about through the boast fitness of Marx, which also caused his own undoing. While under the infu- ence of liquor he displayed a maga- zine revolver of the kind known to have been used by the car barn murderers
 He asserted that the police would nev-
 CT take him alive.
 THE HUNT BEGINS.
 This came to the notice of Captain Schuettler. Detectives Quinn and
 Blaul were detailed to arrest Marx. 1 They found him November 20 in a sa- ] loon. When about to take him into custody Marx shot and killed Quinn and tried to shoot Blaul and escape, but was wounded and captured.
 Several days later Marx, angered at
 the failure of his companions to carry
 out a prearranged plan to dynamite the police station in which he was con- fined and secure his release, confesscc
 to the murders at the street railway barn and implicated Neidermeier and
 Van Dine. Marx told of other des-
 perate crimes they had committed ana involved Roeski. Until this admission (Continued on mage three