CAR-BARN BANDITS HANGED
Carried to the Scaffold.
SHORT BUT
olicism, Went Calmly to their Doom, While
Neidermever, Who Had Boasted of His Nerve
Was Carried Half Dead to the Scaffold
Incidents of the Execution,
Chicago,
Gu
meyer, stan
Vandine, the
dits and confesed mure
men, hanged
Friday.
Niedermeyer, wha was hange d first,
he
at
were
to the scaffold
had to be carried
cauge of his desperate attempt
last Straps were
Monday
his
above his knees.
suicide
just
placed over ankles and
1 -
was then placed
and vel to one of
on a truck
the lower floors of il, after which
carried scaffold and
he o
a chai the trap. He
was
placed mn
wore a red
10t asked
he had anythi
was quickly
He instinctivel
the noose
at 10.35
nounced
broken
During
warrant
paper Ir
and P
barn
closely
six mont
ders
upon
arrest. It
escape ot
traordinary bat
Northern Indi
go, that, on
ture of
the
and Emil R
having
the bars
The
dine,
tried and
of Frank Stes
cago City Railway
robbery there on ti
gust 30, 1003, Jame
torman, w
BONS Were wot
caped after
Roesk: was
crime, but after
COMPanions WHS
one of the murders in
the principal
sentenced to life nnprisonment
Apprehension of tl
brought about
ness of Marx i i
fluence of liquor, he displaye magi
zine revolver of the kind
have been used by the car-barn
derers. He asserted that the
would never take him alive
arrest
as
having
not
the con
'
trica
He was cof
mur
to arrest Marx. They {ound him on
November 20 in a saloon,
about to take him into custody, Marx
shot and killed Quinn and tried
shoot Blaul, but was wounded
gaptured.
Several days later Marx, angered
at the failure of his companions to
carry out a prearranged plan to dy-
namite the police station in which he
was confined, confessed to the car
barn murders and implicated Nieder-
meyer and Van Dine. Marx told of
other desperate crimes they had com.
mitted, and involved Roeski.
The case went to the jury on March
#1 and the next day Hy Nieder-
meyer and Vandine were found guilty
iand sentenced to be hanged.
None of the bandits had yet reached
fhe age of 25 years,
and
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ratified
ashier, of the
at Elkhart, were i
nd 6 vears In pris
banking laws
son Abeel, who posed
Goelet and became engaged
Anderson, in New
Sutlty of forgery In
das
became Jemented
ym abroad, :
panic am
on
returning re
omething of a
ngers the
steerage
pass
Majestic,
Daniel J. Sully
bankruptcy
was overruled
Di
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the
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contract in
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direct the
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The University of Glasgow confer
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Philadelphia banks and trust com-
panies officially reduced the call mon
ey rate to 3% per cent. Since Janu.
ary 18 the rate has been 4 per cent,
but many loans have recently been
made at 3% per cent. Money is ex-
tremely plentiful in that city.
It is expected the United States
Steel Corporation will turn out about
1,000,000 tons of steel rails this year,
against 2,301,000 tons last year.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas' net
earnings for February were $326,080;
increase, $55,243.
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Thousands
Coast of Island
Soldiers and Sailors
the War to Russia— Daily Expenses Average
£75,000 May Have to Float Internal Loan
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Peterst
KILLED LAYING A MINE.
A'exictt Was Apparently Blo k'ng 's
Arthur,
$s Oat of
Port
Alexieft has
ships gO to
An inferior
though this not be the
licy of Viece-Admiral SkryJdloff
who will determine a plan of over
assumes command
nirance
fntention
Again, even
force,
On
when he
Alexieff's report, as given out, was
‘1 respectiully report to Your Ma-
atinns
tome steam launches,
Fell and twenty men were killed
through a mine exploding prematures
ly under the stern of one of the
launches,
“Quite a series of reconnaissances
carried out on the Yalu have shown
that the Japanese are copcentramng
in considerable force. It is believed
tihat they have about one division to
the north of Wij. They are also be-
ginning to concentrate troops in Wiju
trom which place they have moved the
Korean population,
“Information has reached me that
quantities of material, apparently
parts of pontoon bridges, are being
collected opposite the island of Ma-
bikhe.
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ot
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timony Senat
fice hearing
pator Reed Sm
On Ste am
the German
to the resident
the principal edit
National Zeitung, if
The remaine of Harry
former journal clerk of the House of
Representatives, were interred at the
Hill Cemetery
nhurg,
hapssador, presente d
igen Zabel Ww Od
Berlin
H. Smith,
The Senate passed the Emergency
and Harbor Appropriation Bill
During an examination by a com-
mittee of Congress Representative
Roberts confessed that he hal been
times and that he has
three wives living.
The House of
vill unanimously.
The House Judiciary
will report favorably the
General to ‘transmit certain informa:
tion 10 the House.
The State Department is in receipt
of information that Mr. Ruscel, Uni-
ted States charge d'affairs at Panama,
who has been ill, is slowly improving.
Senator Cockrill introduced a hill
prohibiting the importation of adulter-
ated tea,
TORONTO'S BIG FIRE
Millions.
STOPPED AT THE WATER FRONT.
The Total Damage Conscrvatively Estimated
at Twelve Million Dollars Dynamite Used
To Check the Progress of the Flames By
Blowing Up Small Houses - Custombouse
Was a Barrier to the Fire.
> 1 2.000.000.
reduced to
were
length
two
BANK ROBBER K'LLED.
Emmert Stewart Shot By the Watchman af »
Richmond Baok.
meet
him to hal
hit the
aimed
sinking
arm, kill
the
left
stantly
in
Murderer Aicllo Hunged.
Pa (Special) Ie
Baptise Alello was here fou
the murder of Frank Carfa on the
night of May 2 last year. Caria wae
an mnocent spectator of a street haght
and Aiello rushed upon him with a
Brookville,
hanged
Aiello’s execution was twice post.
Husband and wife Dead.
Ogden, Utah, (Special).—~Mr. and
MINER'S FAMILY EURNED
i
cach other's arms at their room in a
lodging-house here. It is believed by
the police that the woman first poison.
cd her husband and then herself
Stone had refused to let her have
charge of his children by a former wife
and this had been the cause of fre.
quent quarfels between the two. Jeal.
ousy of Stone's sister, who had charge
of the children, is supposed to have
been the cause of the quarrels.
in Their Home,
ALEXIEFF WOULD GO
Viceroy Asks the Ciar to Relieve Him of
His Post
ravoft
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AN ANAR WET pp oT
Attorney Alleges Taa: >yrimus Have Beodcd
Together.
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siarthng statement
lice Station, where eight Syria
had been
trad
Ae
irrested for riot were being
Shibley New
siponcment nd
He
0
arrived Is rom
OF A
the hearing, but this was refused
then stated that an anarchistic
ciety under the guise of a benevalen?
Mr. Korkemas, in jail Many of then
countrymen of good character, he saie
were forced to flee from New York
they were opposed” 1a the
tion had threatened to torture
wives and mothers of thor
in true oriental fashion,
Mr. Shidley «aid that he had about
a dozen witnesses to show before the
proper tribunal that this was true
The men were ordered to forfeit $s
of to serve twenty days in jail
the
enemies