The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-04-27
CAR-BARN BANDITSHANGED
Niedermeyer, Who Tried Suicide, Was
Carried 10 the Scaffold.
SHORT But THRILLING CAREER.
Marx and vandine, Who Had Professed Cath
olieism, Went Calmly to their Doom. While
Neidermeyer, Who Had Boosted Of His Nerve
Was Carried Half Dead 10 the Scaffold-
Incidents Of the Execution.

Incidents OF the Execution.
Chicago, (SpeciaD Peter Nieder-
meyer, Gustav Marx and Harvey
Nandinc, the notorious car-barn ban
dts and confessed murderers of eight
men, were hanged here separately
Friday.
Niedermeyer wh1 was hanged first
had to be carried to the scaffold be.
cause OF his desperate attempt at
suicide last Monday. Straps were
placed over his ankles and just
above his knees. lie was then placed
on a truck and wheeled to one OF
the lower floors OF the Jail, after which
he was carried to the scaffold and
placed in chair on the trap. lie
wore a red rose, but no coat. He was
not asked the customary question II
he had anything to say, and the rope
was quickly placed about his neck.
He instinctively settled his neck into
the moose and the trap was sprung
at 1926 A. NJ The physicians an
nOunced that his neck had been
broken.
During the reading of the death
warrant Niedermcyer snatched the
paper from the chief deputy's hand
angry remarks at this time, and once
CT twice. when he was being taken to
the scaffold.
Shn-,l,. a',.lncI Macy
led to the scaffold, neatly dressed
and with white rose, which had been
given him by his small sister the night
before. He was pale, but his courage
never left him. He made no state
ment. Two priests OF the Roman
Catholic Church. OF which Marx had
TO the gallows. He repeated the lit
which the jaier adjusted the moose,
and sprang the trap at II.I7. He was
pronounced dead at 1884, his neck
having been broken.
The hanging of Nandnc occurred
at II.55, and was without particular
incident. The priests accompanied
him and, he, too, wore white rose.
At first il was the intention OF
s'liNll III Ddl lAAA A' lldiiS AllN wv Hlll7
ultancously on one scaffold. as the
Anarchists were executed some years
ago. The plan, however was aban-
doned, mainly on account OF Nicder-
meyers attempt at suicide, which
made il advisable that he be hanged
alone.
Attorneys for Nandine were trying
10 see the Governor, to obtain a stay
az fla hanI1f I1tlnr
Whitman said. and that was why
consent was given 10 hang Vandine
last.
Marx and Nandine, who joined the
Catholic Church recently, spent their
last hours in reading. writing and
praying, several nuns and priests be-
ing constantly with them.
Niedermeyer continued to reject all
spiritual advice, and il seemed that
he would carry out his idea OF dying
all atheist.
When the last death watch was
placed before his cell for the night
Nedermeyer shook hands with the
guard who was leaving, and said that
he had been good guard" mas
much as he had planned to trick him
. number OF times, but had been un-
able 10 do so.
A large crowd assembled at the
Jail preceding the hour of execution
and sought admission. but were turned
away. Only a limited number, provid
ed by law, were allowed in the Jail
10 witness the execution OF the ban
dts.
The hanging OF the youthful car
barn bandits in Chicago followed
closely a period Of crime OF less than
six months. In that time eight muir
ders were committed, all attendant
upon robberies or efforts to escape
arrest. II was during an attempt TO
escape on a stolen train, after an ex-
tiaordinary battle in the swamps OF
Northern Indiana, just east OF Chica-
go, that, on November ~, the cap
ture OF the gang was completed by
the arrest OF Niedermeyer, Nandine
and Emil Roeski, their associate. Marx
having already been placed behind
the bars.
The specific offense for which Van
dine, Niedcrmeyer and Marx were
tried and sentenced was the murder
OF Frank Stewart, a clerk nj the Chi.
cagO City Railway car barns during a
robbery there on the morning OF Au-
gust 3o 1903, James b. Johnson, mo-
torman, was also killed, and two per
sons were wounded. The bandits es-
capped after having secured $2,24o.
Roeski was not concerned in this
crime, but after the conviction OF his
companions was tried separately for
Cne OF the murders in which he was
the principal. lie was convicted and
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
On January q the trial OF Niedcr-
meyer, Nandine and Marx began. But
little testimony favorable to them was
offered. No defense at all was made
fdr Niedtrmeyer In the case OF
Nandinc evidence was introduced to
show that he had been since birth
afflicted with form of epilepsy which
had made him irresponsible. A plea
for clcmeucy for Marx was made on
the ground that his confession had
led to the capture OF his companions.
None of the bandits had yet reached
the age OF IS years.
Death Rather Than Dlshonor.
San Francisco, Gala. (SpeciaD =
Robert Nicholson, chief boatswain's
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