Arizona republican., 1904-04-23

outlaws jumped from the cave and es- capped across the frozen prairie, keep ing up fusilade as they ran.
 Detective Driscoll advanced to the "dugout" and was firing at the fleeing desperadoes, when Neidermeier-the police thought there had been but two in the hollow-emerged, fatally shot him in the back and joined his compan- ions, while the other policemen were still engaging the outlaws. A moment later Detective Trimmer fell, seriously wounded. but neither side yielded. Some minutes later. however, the police being obliged to care for the two wounded detectives, and finding their fire falling short, decided to give up the fight tenn porarily and 3end to Chicago for re- Inducements. The bandits continued their flight.
 A special train with fifty policemen armed with rifles was rushed to tho ; scene and the hunt renewed.
 Although escape was now impossi- ble, the men showed no signs of sub mission. They had not halted since firing their last volley, and arrived at Tolliston exhausted, but still deter mined to avoid capture.
 WAT v bG VT AIN EN1lNE.
 On a side track at TolliSton, where section men were working, stood an engine and a train of cars. Then fol- lowed the execution of quickly formed plan to seize the train and escape. The three outlaws jumped into the cab and ! confronted Fireman Frank Coffey, the engineer being away at the time. At 1 first Coffey did not notice that they were armed. Brakeman John Sovia did. however. and crawled over the tender evidently to warn him. Sovia attempted to take the revolver from Neidermeier while the other two ban | dits pointed their revolvers at Coffey. l The scuffie was short, and Sovia pitched headforemost out of the cab with a bullet in his brain, dying almost in- stantly.
 | With their guns still pointed at Cof- fey's head the trio ordered him hastily | to take the train out of the siding, and it started on wild run to Liverpool.
 In the woods a short distance away were a number of armed farmers who having heard of the escapade and the escape of the outlaws, had started to intercept them. The posse reached Tol- leston about noon, just as the train passed. They rushed across the prai- rie to point where the road curves and where there was a locked switch compelling Fireman Coffey to stop.
 The posse opened fire as the train stopped and the trio fled to a corn field, exchanging shots as they ran. Charges from the guns of the farmers, under the leadership of Charles Ham, ilton, struck Neidermeier and Van Dine. but did not seriously wound eith- CT. The bandits who had made their 1 last stand were not deterred and fired | frequent volleys at their pursuers
 THE SURRENDER.
 Knowing they were surrounded and ! that further resistance would be use ! less, the criminals, some minutes later, n decided to surrender. Neidermeier the leader of the gang, who, Marx had said. never would be taken alive, was the first to do so. A few minutes after ! ward Van Dine abandoned the fight. While Van Dine and Neidermeier | were giving themselves up, Roesixi fled to the woods beyond Liverpool. The posse found him later in railroad sta- tion at Aetna, waiting for a train to Chicag go. He made no resistance, was disarmcd and brought to the city with the other two bandits.
 DeIectlVe Drlscoll, Wno was Snot Dy Neidermeier, died four days later.
 While in jail Neidermeier smilingly boasted of having killed twenty-three men. Marx asserted that he had mur- dered five. investigation proved these statements to be untrue. It developed that these confessions" had been made to obtain notoriety, or for as. small a consideration as a chew of tobacco. Of the eight known victims of the bandits. four are thought to have been killed by Neidermeier alone.
 On January 6 the trial of Neidermeier, f Van Dine and Marx, who had been in- . dicted the day after the capture, began. But little testimony favorable to them was offered. No defense at all waa | made for Neidermeier.
 | In the case of Van Dine evidence was introduced to show that he had been since birth afflicted with form of ep- | ilepsy which had made him irrespon-