Orange Daily Tribune. (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1904 Page: 1 of 4
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NUMBER 34
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VOLUME 3
ORANGE, TEXAS. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 22. 1904
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THREE BANDITS
EXECUTED TODAY
W. J. WINGATB.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office at
NEIDERMIER, MARX AND VAN-
DYNE PAY DEATH PENALTY.
CHICAGO TRIPLE EXECUTION
Brief History of lifts Crimea Which
the Bandits Ware Charged With
Having Committed.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, April 22—With their exe-
cution so near at band as to be wait-
ed for only by minutes, Peter Nelder-.
oiler, Gustav Marx and Harvey Van-
Dyne the car-barn bandits after prac-
tically a sleepless night prepared for
the end to come. At first it was the
Intention of Sheriff Barrett to hang
the trio simultaneously from one
scaffold as the anarchists were exe-
cuted some years ago. the plan how-
ever was abandoned mainly on ac-
count of Neidermelr’s attempt at sui-
cide which left him in a weakened
condition and made It advisable that
he be hanged alone. A large crowd
aasembled at the jail to secure admis-
sion but were turned away, as only a
limited number will be allowed in
j the jail to witness the execution of
the bandits.
Chicago, April 22—Peter Neider-
mier, Gustav Marx and Harvey Van-
Dyne the notorious car barn bandits
and confessed murderers were hanged
today. Neidermler was the first to
die. and the manner of his death was
rather unusual; he was so weakened
as the result of his attempt to com-
mit suicide that the jail guards were
forced to carry him to the scaffold.
He was placed in a chair, and the
drop was sprung at 1:36 a. m. his
body moved convulsively aa it bung
and he was slowly strangled to death.
8tory of^jfce Crime.
The hanging cJT the youthful car
barn bandits followed cloaely a period
,of crime of less than six months. In
that time eight murders were com-
mitted. all attendant upon robberies
or efforts to escape arrest.
It was during an attempt to escape
on a stolen train, after an extraordi-
nary battle In the swamps of North-
ern Indiana, just east of Chicago, that
on November 27 of last year the cap-
ture of the gang was completed by
the arrest of Neidermler, Van Dyne
and Emil Roeskl, their associate Marx
having already been placed behind the
bars to await trial.
The specific offense for which Van
Dine, Neidermler and Marx were tried
and sentenced was the murder of
Frank Stewart, a clerk In the Chicago
city railway car barns, during a rob^
bery there on the morning of August
30, 1903. James B. Johnson, a motor-
man, was also killed, and*two persons
were wounded. The bandits escaped
after having secured $2240. Roeskl
was not concerned in that crime, but,
after the conviction of his companions,
was tried separately for one of the
murders in which he was accused of
being the principal.
Apprehension of the trio in Indiana
was brought about through the boast-
fulness of Marx, which also caused his
own undoing. ‘While under the Influ-
ence of liquor he displayed a maga-
zine revolver of the kind known to
have been used by the car barn mur-
derers. He asserted that the police
would never take him alive.
This came to the notice of Captain
Schuettler. Detectives Quinn and
Blaul were detailed to arrest Marx.
They found him November 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.
8everal days later, angered at the
failure of hts companions to carry
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out a prearranged plan to dynamite
the police station In which’he was con-
fined and release him, Marx confessed
to the murders at the street railway
barn and Implicated Neidermler and
Van Dine. Marx told of other desper-
ate crimes they had committed add
involved Roeskl. Until this admis-
sion identity of the perpetrators had
remained a mysterf.
On Thursday evening, November 26,
less than a week after the confession
of Marx, word was received that three
men answering the descriptions of the
car barn bandits were in hiding near
Clark,, Ind. Seven policemen were Im-
mediately sent to the town, arriving
there Friday morning. They were
met by Henry J?. Retchards, who had
reported the clew and who bad se-
cretly traced the trio to a dugout in
the sand dunes, where they were liv-
ing. /
With Relchards as a guide, the po-
lice, armed with rifles and revolvers
and led by Detective John H. Sheehan,
waited till daybreak and then started
for the snow covered cave near the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks at
Wilson’s, a short distance from Clark.
Surrounding the abode, the officers
prepared for the fight they expected
would follow, while Sheehan ap-
proached and opened the door to the
dugout. One of the bandits, who was
immediately recognized as Roeskl ap-
peared ana was ordered to surren-
der. Instead, he darted back into the
cave. No sooner had he done so than
firing began, and volley after volley,
aimed at the officers, came from the
magazine guns of the bandits. Con
cealing themselves a$ best they could
behind trees and bushes, the police
steadily returned the fire. In this
manner the fight continued for a short
time. Suddenly two of the outlaws
jumped from the cave and escaped
across the frozen prairie, keeping up
a fusilade as they ran.
Detective .Driscoll advanced to the
dugout and was firing at the fleeing
desperadoes, when Neidermler (the
police thought there had been but two
in the hollow) emerged, fatally shpt
him In the back and Joined his com
panions, while the other policemen
were still engaging the outlaws.
A moment later Detective Zimmer
fell, seriously wounded, but neither
side yielded. Some minutes later,
however, the police being obliged to
care for the two wounded detectives,
and finding their fire falling short, de^
elded fo give up the fight temporarily
and send to Chicago for reinforce-,
ments. The bandits continued their
flight.
A special train with fifty policemen,
armed with rifles, was rushed to the
scene, and the hunt renewed.
Although escape was now Impossi-
ble, the men showed no signs of sub-
mission. They had not baited since
firing their last volley, and arrived at
Tolllston exhausted, but still deter-
mined to avoid capture.
On a side track at Tolllston, where
section men were working stood atf
engine and a train of care. Then fol-*
lowed the execution of a quickly form-'
ed plan to seize the train and escape.
The three outlaws jumped into the
cab and confronted Fireman Frank
Coffey, the engineer being away at the
time. At first Coffey did not notice
that they were armed. Brakeman John
Sovia did, however, and crawled over
the tender evidently to warn him.
Sovia attempted to take the revolver
from Neidemeler while the other two
bandits pointed their revolvers at
Coffey. The scuffle was short and
Sovia pitched beadformost out of the
cab with a bullet in his brain, dying
almost Instantly.
With their guns still pointed at Cof-
fey’s bead the trio ordered him hasti-
ly to take the train out of the siding,
and it started on a wild run to Liver-
pool.
In the woods a short distance away
were a number of armed farmers, who,
having heard of the escapade and «*-
cape of the outlaws, had started to
Intercept them. The posse reached
Tolllston’e about noon, Just as f|M
train passed. They rushed across the
prairie to a point where the road
curves and where there was a locked
switch, compelling Fireman Ooffey to
stop.
The posse opened fire as the train
stopped and the trio fled to a cornfield,
exchanging shots as they ran. Charges
from the guns of the farmers, under
the leadership of Charles Hamilton,
struck Neidemeler and VmnDlae,
did not seriously wound
bandits who bad now made
stand were not deterred and
quent volleys at theijr purs
Knowing they were sure©'
that further resistance w-
the criminals some
to surrender.
' the gang, who
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