The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-22

several others, robbed a dozen sa-
looms railroad ticket office. the car
barns at SiXtyfirst and State streets.
and attempted to dynamite a train
Five of the murders We're committed
within two 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 Clybourn junc-
tion station of the Northwestern rail-
way July 8 last. Niedermeier and Roe
ski carried out this robbery. The
ticket agent and telegraph operator
were in the station when the men
pointed a revolver through the lat
tice 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 robbers secured $50 Less
than week later Van Dine, Roeski
and Marx robbed a saloon in Ashland
avenue, lining up the customers be-
fore the bar and shooting and killing
a young man named Otto Bauder, who
started to run. The following night.
July TO- Van Dine and Roeski went to
q saloon in Addison avenue. Louis
Cohen. the bartender. was alone and
the men had little trouble in secur-
ing $25. 1t was in this saloon that
Marx later shot Detective John Quin.
Two nights later Van Dine and Roe
ski held up the saloon of Charles Al
vim. There We're 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 %
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 a revolver. Before he
could secure it four shots had been
irrd at him. one of the bullets striI-
ing him in the head. The murder of
Benjamin c. LaGrOss and AdOlph Jen-
sen on August l in the formers sa-
loon in West North avenue came next.
The salOOnkeeper and Jensen were
playing cards when the robbers en-
tered LaGross and his customer held
ND their hands when ordered to do So
but both were shot, LarGOss dying at
once and Jensen a day later. There
was $64 in the till.
The most desperate crime of the
youths was the car barn robbery on
August 80. Marx and Roeski ar
RANGED the details. but Roeski was not
an active party in the robbery. TW"
men were killed and $2.250 was taken.
Marx. Van Dine and Niedermeier in
vaded the barn at 3 o'clock in the
morning and began shooting without
warning. Francis w. Stewart a stu
dent at the Armour institute, at work
1t a desk in the cashiers office. was
shot through the body and died soon
afterward William B. Edmond re-
reiving cashier. also was shot. but not
nortaIly. James 3. Johnson. motor
man. was killed as he rose from
bench ON which he had been sleeping
The men made a failure of their
plan for dynamiting the limited tram
Of the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way. After the car barn murders two
Of the gang went to Cripple Creek to
buy dynamite for the purpose. Van
Dine learned when a large sum Of
money was to be carried, and on that
night ROesli tagged the train be-
tween jefferson and Des PLANES. Inc
engineer did not stop. but slowed up
As the locomotive passed Roeski hred
shot. the bullet Wounding the hrH-
man in the thigh. When the train was
brought to a stop it had passed the
point where the dynamite had been
concealed and the robbers hurried
away. Soon after this the police be
came hot on the trail of the young
bandits. In an attempted capture De
tective Quinn was shot and killed by
Marx. The desperados then fled the
citv and u few days later were
hro11pht TO bav in a dugOut just
across the Indiana state line. oeS-
perate encounter followed, IN WhIch
the youths were slightly wounded ana
two of the pursuing posse Killed
Their trial. conviction and execution
has set new record for speed IN lhe
Cook county courts. The total cost oi
the trial is estimated at SlOOoo' the
most expensive. with the exception Oh
the Luetgert trial. ever held IN ohI-
cagO.