The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-05-23
The Car Barn Bandits
LEWIS N. HEAD
Oify Editor YalfIssa M0rs,fssg Herald
(THIRD INTALLMENT.)

crucial point of the whole matter.
Perhaps Chief Scheuttler was the
only man in the city of Chicago at
that time who fully appreciated the
significance of the capture. And it
10 also fact that he was not fully
aware of the prize he had taken.
The murder of Sheehan stirred the
city to its depths. 1t was the most
atrocious crime that had been perpe-
trated since the car barn bandits had
killed Johnson and Stewart. While
Schuettler was in possession of infor-
nation to the effect that Marks could
tip" something off to him, he was
not fully aware of all that he was
soon to learn.
Right here it is proper to state
that no police official in the United
States has the reputation of having
secured as many confessions as has
Chief Scheuttler. More than that, he
has never been guilty of using vio-
lence to get these same confessions.
He is well liked by all the criminals
that have ever had any thing to do
with him, as he is kind-hearted and
does his best to make the hours of
confinement for the prisoners in his
custody as pleasant as the circum-
stances will permit.
SO, the next morning after Marks
had been arrested for the killing Of
Shsshan his doom was sealed.
Scheuttler told him so in just that
number OF words. He minced no
sentiments and in language some
thing like the following he spoke to
Marks:
Gus, you are up against it now.
You have done a number of petty
burglaries and have been going from
bad to worse, until now you are in
a murderer's cell. l think there is
no power on earth that can save you,
unlss it be yourself. and cannot
even guarantee that"
Marks began to realize the predica-
ment into which his haste had
brought him. When Schuetter said
that there was but one thing, and
that himself, that could save him,
the boy, for he was under 21, looked
up with a querulous and pitiful ex-
preston on his countenance.
''It is possible" continued Chief
Scheuttler, that if you turn states
evidence, tell all you know and help
US find your accomplices, if you have
any, that you will secure term in
the penitentiary instead of a death
sentence. But l cannot give you any
guaranty of this. What you say, you
must say voluntarily, knowing that
it will be used against you when you
come to trial. But, as l said before,
1t may have some influence in Sc
curing leniency from the court
And in this manner the big chief
talked to him kindly for several
days. He never once asked him any
definite questions as to what he had
done, nor was word passed as to
the other car barn murderers. He
was given his own time, but the kind
ly manner in which Scheuttler talked
to him every day, and sometimes
three and four times a day, finally
won the hayward boy and, with
trembling voice he called for Chief
Echuettler one evening, just as
entered the station to go on duty.
Schuettler, who is one of the best
friends have in the city of Chicago
knowing full we'll that the conf
dence he placed in me would be
faithfully guarded. asked me to &C
company him. as he felt that Mark:
was about to confess. l followed
little knowing what was to happen.
We reached the cell, when Chief
Schuettler opened the door and lee
Tie JOuHS man uOMn the SOi ! loOl u
his own private office. There WI
three lighted cigars and waited fol-
the trembling, pale-faced youth (
tell what he knew. His appearance
was as one who had been in fear
full mental struggle and was about tx
take one last leap for safety. Thu
hunted expression of his eyes will
remain in my minds eye to the las
day of my life. He talked very slow
ly and in a few quick. deliberate
words he narrated the folowin:
awful tale:
Il am a bad man, Schuettler.
have done one of the worst things il
my career. But, before | get through
you Will see that this last killing il
not so bad, after all, as people seen
TO think it is. This is not the frs
man that / have shot and killed. NJ!
story is a long one, and when l ge
through you will think less Of ms
than you do now. II that is possible.