Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — ADMIT MANY MURDERS. [ARTICLE]

ADMIT MANY MURDERS.

Members of Chicago Car Bara Gang TeU of Their Crimes. The Chicago car barn bandits, convicted and sentenced to death, are now confessing crimes that have long mystified the authorities. Peter Niedemeyer, the brains of the gang, admits killing twenty-three men, oue for every year of his life. Gustav Marx remembers murdering eight persons. Marx declared in a confession that he was one of the three men who held up the Chicago and Northwestern express train at Tower W, near DeKalb, four years ago. The crime, which has passed into history as one of the most desperate ever committed in or about Chicago, has never been accounted for. Marx says both his confederates in the crime are dead and refuses to give their names. One of them, he declares, “died with his boots on.” The railway authorities admitted a loss of $102,000 by the robbery. Marx says the robbers secured only SB,OOO, the rest of the money having been destroyed by the explosion of dynamite used to crack the safe. “I used dynamite for the first time in the tower robbery and made a bungle of it,” Marx said. "We tied aud gagged the tower man and then flagged the train. One Of my pals had got the dynamite in California. I placed a big lot of it on top of tho safe, and when it went off it not only wrecked the safe but most of the money Inside. With a swag of SB,000 we came back to Chicago, although the police were under the impression we headed for Omaha. “Besides John B. Johnson, killed at' the car barns; Detective Quinn, killed at tho time of my arrest, and Otto Bauder, whom Roeski Is generally supposed to have killed, I have killed five other men.” If Peter Niedemeyer’s story is to be believed, ho has killed a man for every year of his life. “I have killed twenty-three men and wounded seventeen,” he declared. “Innocent men are serving time for my crimes in more than one penitentiary. Rewards amounting to $10,500 are outstanding for me in different States. I will confess these crimes if the police will give me a written promise to give a part of the reward to my old mother.”