Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — CONFESSES CAR BARN MURDERS [ARTICLE]

CONFESSES CAR BARN MURDERS

Gang of Young Chicago Bandits Said to Be Guilty of Many Crimes. The recent tragic death of Detective John Quinn has resulted in clearing up the robbery and murderp nt the Sixtyfirst street barns of the City Railway Company, says a Chicago dispatch. This crime, as well as five other murder mysteries and eight robberies, are the subjectof * confession by Gustave Marx, the self-confessed slayer of Detective Quinn. The latter, with Detective Blaul of the Sheffield avenue police station, sought to arrest Marx Saturday night. In a written statement, complete in its details and graphic and accurate in description,' Marx told the story of the car barn murder mystery and others, with no spirit of bravado. His avowal was made to Assistant Chief of Police Herman Schuettler, ■who called in several witnesses -to hear the story. Marx named his alleged confederates in his murderous and desperate acts as being Peter Neidermeier, Harvey Van Dein and Emil Roeski. Marx’s arrest Saturday night after he had murdered Detective Quinn in a saloon, caused his alleged accomplices to go into hiding. The police department flashed messages nil over the United States and Canada, hoping soon to have the three men under arrest. All, including Marx, are scarcely out of their teens. Love of money %nd the determination to sacrifice lives to get it, nerved the young desperadoes to arm themselves with the deadliest Of weapons—.automatic magazine revolvers. One peculiarity developed in Marx’s confession of the car barn murders and robbery. The surviving ear barn employes of the Chicago City Railway Company at the inquest which resulted in John Slueder being held to the grand jury testified that the robbers . began shooting without warning. Marx declares he commanded the employes to hold up their hands and that before he knew or could prevent it Neidermeier began shooting. Van Dein then joined him and the bullets from their magazine revolvers ended tile lives of Motorman James B. Johnson and Clerk Francis W. Stewart.