Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1903 — Man Hunt In LaKe County. [ARTICLE]

Man Hunt In LaKe County.

.1 ' .\ , ■ •. , , Three Desperate Chicago Criminals Caught There Friday. ( 1 Three desperate Ghioago criminals were captured in the northern part of Lake county, Friday, after one of the moat exciting and dangerous man bunts that ever took place in Indiana. They were Pete Neidermeier, Harvey Van Dine and Emil Doeaki. They were the companions of Gustav Marx, in the oar barn murders at Englewood of the 30th of last August, and four or five other desperate rooberies and murders, of the laet five months. They fled from Chicago when Marx was arrested, and were found in a dugout in a sand pit, near station. 1 A big squad of Chicago policemen tried to capture them in the dug-out but they wounded two of the policemen, one of them probably fatally, and escaped, going to East Tolleston.

Here they sei*ed a switching engine, needlessly killing a brakeman named SoVea and started to make their.eshape on the engine. A blacksmith named Hamilton was banting rabbits close by when Saves was killed, and he fired at the robbers in in the engine oab, peppering them with bird shot. They were headed off at Liverpool, by a telegram, and side-tracked. They left the engine and took to the woods. Hamilton and four or five other huuters followed them for miles, tracking them in the snow. They finally overhauled them in a field of shocked corn, and captured Van Dine and Neid ermeier, Roeaki escaping. They took the two me i baok to the railroad and deliverfd them to the Chicago police. They then returred and tracked Roeefci until night, and found and captured him ia the railroad station at Etna, waiting to oatoh a train to Chicago. Tneke four men, including Marx, oonfees to five murders in the past five months, not including Quinn killed \n arresting Marx and Sovea killed Friday, besides a number of others wounded. They are all mere boys, none being much over 21 years old.