The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-03-18
CALL0WS FOR THE
CAR barn BANDITS
JURY DECIDES ON DEATH YER
DICT FOR THE YOUTHFUL
TRIO OF MURDERERS.
Decision in Trial Of Chicago Criminals
Made After Many Hours Of DELHI
eration-Crowd Hears the Result
New Trial Asked.

Chicago, March 14-Death on the gal
lows is to be the punishment Of Harvey
Van Dine, Peter Niedermeier and Gus
tav Marx, the youthful trio whose rob-
berries and attempts to elude capture
were attended by the murder of eight
men. The decision of the jury was made
known in Judge Kersten's court room
shortly after 10 o'clock Saturday morn
ing, and marked the beginning OF the
end of the most desperate outlaw band
ever known to Chicago. The verdict was
returned % hours after the jurors retired
to deliberate. There had been no Ques-
ton of the guilt OF the three prisoners,
and the only hope was for leniency. Such
hope was particularly strong as to Marx,
who had been the first to confess and
later had not repudiated his admissions
of guilt.
Crowd Hears Verdict.
The verdict was read before packed
court room. The three youths had been
brought from their cells in charge of
Sheriff Barrett and Jailer Whitman, and
there was intense excitement when they
were led before the bar. A few minutes
afterward, worn by its long elaboration,
the jury filed in and at the request OF the
court handed the three verdicts to the
clerk, which read: I'VE, the jury, find
the defendants guilty of murder in man
ner and form as charged in the indict-
ment, and we fix their punishment at
DEATH"
Not q sound broke the silence OF the
court room. The three mothers sat with
eyes riveted on their doomed sons, and
the widows and orphans of the murdered
men bowed their heads in the presence
of the Justice that was to avenge the loss
of their loved ones. Those few who had
made heroes of the slayers read in the
verdict fearful last chapter on which
their fancy had not counted.
New Trial Asked.
The jury was polled for each defendant,
and a motion for new trial for each OF
the men was made, but the futility Of the
proceedings was apparent. The attor-
neys for the condemned men merely
were carrying out the customary formal
tiles.
The three mothers were left alone when
the court adjourned. Without a tear,
without a murmur they had heard the
death sentence. Mrs. Van Dine stag
gered away, but Mrs. Niedermeier, bowed
and wrinkled with age, remained to de-
nounce the verdict as unjust. Mrs. Marx,
stunned, hurried away to her home.
Mamie Dunno, the sweetheart of Van
Dine, wept softly to herself, and shielded
herself behind Mr.. Marx.
Killed Twenty-Three Men.
Confronted by the certainty of death
on the gallows and resigned to the fate
which they now say they deemed inevi-
table from the day they were driven
from their Indiana dugout, the young
criminals who have posed as the des-
perate automatic trio' yesterday re-
newed their Boosting of deeds of crime.
Peter Niedemeyer said he had killed %
men and Gustav Marx said he had killed
five.
Roeski to Face Jury.
Emil Roeski, fourth member of the
bandit gang, is to be placed on trial this
week. The case will be set probably be-
fore Judge Kersten and RoesKl will be
prosecuted by Assistant States Attor-
neys Harry Olson and Edmund Furth-
man. The trial promises to be interest
ing because of the plea of hypnotism
which will be made in Roeski's behalf.