Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — The Capture. [ARTICLE]

The Capture.

After tlielr unparalleled reign of terror the actual capture of the bandits Was accomplished with surprising ease. Backed by a posse of seven men, Charles Hamilton, the Tolleston blacksmith, came upon Van Dine and Nledemeyer In a field of shocked corn a mife northwest of Liverpool. Brought to bay. Van Dine showed his head from behind a shock of corn. At the point of a shotgun Hamilton compelled the desperado to throw out hls threa.automatic Colt revolvers and then to come from his hiding place with his hands above his head. Nledemeyer was taken In the same manner from behind another com shock. Roeskh who gave his pursuers a longer chase than Ills confederates, was finally captured with ease. Having thrown away his firearms and secured a railroad ticket as a safer piss to liberty, he was found in the way station on the Wabash Railroad at Aetna, waiting for a train to take him to Chicago. There Hamilton’s posse, reinforced by city detectives, burst in and capture 4 him without resistance on his part.