Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1904 — END OF THREE THUDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Niedermeier, Van Dine and Marx Die Victims of Their Own Diabolism.

TWO REPENTANT AND CALM Bat Niedermeier Tries to Kill Himself and Collapses When He Finds tbe Law Too Strong. Chicago, April 23. car-bom bandits were hanged, one at a time. In the county Jail. They were taken to the scaffold at half hour Intervals between 10:30 o’clock and noon, amd by 1 o'clock the black coffins had been shouldered ouit of *a side exit and carried away to a morgue in Chicago av-

enue. Niedermeier, the boastful, was the meet craven of the threes He was carried limp and half unconscious, to the gallows, and the trap was sprung as be was sitting on a chair. No clergymanaccompanied him to whisper words of consolation to him at the last Van Dine the Last to Swing. Van Dine was the last to be hanged. The possibility that his mother's pJ?as to the governor might result in a reprieve led Sheriff Barrett to delay his execution until after both Niedermeier and Marx had been cut down and wheeled away to the Jail hospital. He died, like Marx, with prayers on his lips and a priest on either side of him as be dropped. Aside from the pitiful spectacle of Nledermeder’s last mo monte the execution was devoid of more than the usual awful scenes. Marx end Van Dine said nothing to their attendants either on the death martib or on the scaffold, and they died quickly. Guards Had to Hold Niedermeier. Niedermeier, as he was wheeled along the corridors, tried to beat his head against the walls and wrest himself loose from his shackles, and the guards were forced to hold him until he was strapped in his chair. It was nine minnteß after the trap fell before his heart stopped beating, and he was In convulsions for that length of time, although the doctors testify that his neck was broken by the fall.

GUSTAVE MARX. H. VAN DINE. P. NIEDERMEYER.