Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-22
story Of Their Crimes.

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Hanging Of the youthful car barn
bandits followed closely q period OF
crime of less than six months. In that
| time eight murders We're committed, all
attendant upon robberles or efforts to
escape arrest
| 1t was during an attempt to escape
on a stolen train after an extraordinary
| battle in the swamps of northern ln-
diana, Just east Of Chicago. that on
| Nov. 27 OF last year the capture OF the
gang was completed by the arrest OF
Neiderineier, Van Dine and Emil Roes-
| XII. their associate, Marx, having al
ready been placed behind the bars to
await trial.
The specific of.ense for which Van
Dine, Neidermeier and Marx We're tried
and sentenced was the murder OF
Frank Stewart. clerk in the Chicago
CITY railway car barns. during a rob-
berry there on the morning OF Aug. 30,
1908. James B. Johnson. a motorman
was also killed. and two persons We're
wounded The bandits escaped after
having secured $2,240. 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 the principal was con-
victed and sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
Apprehension OF the trio In Indiana
was brought about thru the boastfui-
ness of Marx. which also caused his
own undoing. While under the influ-
ence OF liquor he displayed a magazine
revolver of the kind known to have
been used by the car barn murderers.
He asserted that the police would new
| er take him alive.
This came to the notice of Captain
schuettler. Detectives Quinn and
They found him on Nov. 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 cons
/ fined and secure his release, confessed
/ to the murders at the street railway
barn and implicated Neidermeier and
Van Dine. Marx told of other desper-
ate crimes they had committed, and in
| yolyed Roeski. Until this admission
the identity of the perpetrators had re-
mained a mystery.
| On Thursday evening. Nov. 26. less
! than week after the confession of
| Marx, word was received that three
linen. answering the descriptions of the
car barn bandits. We're in hiding near
| Clark, Ind. Seven policemen were in-
medately sent to the town. arriving
! there Friday morning. They We're met
| by Henry f. Riechers, who had re-
ported the clew, and VINO had secretly
! traced the trio to 'dugout' in the
sand dunes, where they were living.
! With Riechers as a guide the police,
| armed with rifles and revolvers and led
| by Detective John Fl. Sheehan, waited
| till daybreak and then started for the
snaw-covered cave near the Baltimore
| & Ohio railroad tracks at Wilson'S, 4
| short distance from Clark.
| Famous Man Hunt.
! Surrounding the abode, the officers
prepared for the fight they expected
| would follow. while Sheehan ap-
| preached and opened the door of the
"dugout.' One of the bandits, who was
immediately recognized as Roeski ap-
peared and was ordered to surrender.
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