Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1904 — HAS HAD A GOOD EFFECT [ARTICLE]

HAS HAD A GOOD EFFECT

"Quick” Work In tho Car-Barn Bandits' Case Said to Have Saved Two Uses. Chicago, April 22. Four men— Frank Howard, Albert Schoeppe, William McFadden aqd John Mack —have been arrested on the charge of having committed numerous burglaries and hold-ups iu the city. After they had been locked up the men confessed to numerous crimes of a similar character in the south, the principal one being in a gambling house in Memphis where, they said, they compelled twenty men to line up against the wall while they searched them. Less than S4OO was secured. Later the men planned to rob the State bank of New Orleans* but gave up the undertaking when they found it would be necessary to kill two clerks. “We would have killed them,” said Mack, “if it had not been for the quick work iu the case of the car-barn bandits in Chicago. I would not stand for murder after that, and we gave up the job.”