The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-05-30

pose that the remainder of the trio
would endeavor to secure the lib.
GRAFTON of Marks.
The Sheffield avenue station was
guarded after that by an extra force
of men and they were supplied with
Winchester rifles. / left his home
with Schuettler and we rode to the
station. When we arrived there
everything was in a turmoil. The
desk sergeant was Cup in the air.
All night long, he said, there had
been rumors that some one had
been seen proving about the sta
ton. Several times the lookup had
received anonymous invitations to
come out and have drink" There
had been false alarms sounded for
the fire department and fictitious
calls for the patrol wagon.
These calls gave the threat of the
trio that they would dynamite the
stat on some significance. For that
reason no call was answered unless
it was first verified by telephone.
And the lookup who had Marks in
his keeping never left his post all
night. He kept his rifle in his hand
nd hn CT IoI hx,
double guard of men, all we'll weap
oned.
1t was very fortunate that the men
were loyal to their posts. The
morning that Chief Schuettler and
myself arrived at the station he set
an investigation on foot and found
three places where dynamite had
been placed. The charge in each
case was large enough to blow the
forbidding stone building to atoms.
One charge had been placed inside
the patrol barn, just outside the cell
in which Marks had been placed.
This charge, it was thought, was
placed there when the wagon was
out on a call. The confessions of
the boys later showed that all the
precautions that were taken were
we'll taken, for their plans to blow
up the station were well laid and
only prevented by the vigilance of
the department.
1t was during this day that Marks
finally confessed the rendezvous of
the trio, in the event they were dis
covered and the police were de-
termined to capture them. The story
that | had printed in the American
in the morning had put Van Dine
and Niedemeier wise on the PROPOSE
ton and in all probability they
would make quick their trip to their
last stand.
In few words Marks stated that
at any time the boys would ever
have to "fy the coop" they would
assemble at the dug-outs near Miller
Station in Indiana. They intended
to make their last stand among the
sand dunes on the south end Of Lake
Michigan and there determine their
strength with the police or farmers
with whom they were to fight their
last battle. Almost coincident with
this confession there came a letter
to the chief, dated Miller Station and
signed by a school teacher named
Williams, stating that he had seen
three men, desperate looking fell
lows, making their way over the
trackless sand dunes toward the dug
outs. He expressed the opinion that
they were the car barn bandits, and
the chain of circumstances then
seemed to be about finished
By this time it was getting quite
late in the afternoon. / was in a
quandary as to what to do. The sta
ton was besieged all day with re-
porters from all the competing pa
pers, and they showed quite a bit of
jealousy as they saw me gallavant-
ing around with Schuettler. They
came to me for news and I had none.
They went to Schuettler and he had
none. But, the problem was, how to
get the story in the morning paper
and still be the only reporter to go
with the police on the special train
in the morning to the scene OF the
last fight. | finally decided to tell
the story in full and say that the
special train would leave in the af-
ternoon. And this l did.
Toward midnight, after all the re-
porters had left for their homes or
their offices the station rapidly as
sumed the aspect of a genuine ar
senal. Winchesters were CLEANED