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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-12-8, Page 2"For Tea You Can't Beat Lipton,'s. " ..a Tour First Cupful yin Not Be Your Last Oi R C I AD BLOODSHED I�IE N BANDITS WARRED AGaINST SOCIE11 FOR MONTHS. The 1VIen Were Finally Captured by Police after a Desperate Struggle, Lawlessness becomes fairly ram- pant at times on the other side of the "Herring Pond," says an Eng- lish paper. Not even in the an- nals of the Wild West, however- when, in days gone by, men shot one another on sight for trifling differences of opinion, and then treated the sheriff who went to ar- rest the murderer to a dose of lead —can such a story of crime and bloodshed be found as that con- cerning the bandits of Chicago, who were executed about six years ago. It furnishes, too, a striking il- lustration of the perils of the Am- erican detective and at what ter- rible costhe perform his duties at times., Early on the morning of Aug. 30th, 1903, three young bandits walked into the sheds of the Chic - cage : City Railway Company and held up the cashier for the night's earnings. In doing so they mur- dered two men and wounded two others. Thirty minutes later they weresitting in the underbrush of Jackson Park waiting for the day to bring light enough to divide the plunder. Then they calmly board- ed a street car, rode over to the 'West Side, read in the early morn- ing papers the account of their ex- ploit, and chuckled over the re- ward of $5,000 offered for their cap- ture. It was the climax to a number of other audacious and MERCILESS OUTRAGES, and the police strained every nerve to find the guilty bandits. At first the task of running the murderers to earth seemed hopeless. The on- ly glues were certain exploded cart- ridges which proved that automatic revolvers had been used. The same. kind of shells had been found at the scene of several other hold- ups, and since this weapon was new to the highwayman industry, the police naturally concluded that the same persons were responsible for all the crimes. Then out of the clear sky came the thunderbolt of discovery. A young man named Gustave Marx, who had been drinking heavily, --showed an automatic revolver in a saloon, and boasted that the police could not take him alive. Chief of Police. O'Neil detailed Detectives Quinn and Biaul to arrest Marx. At a saloon which he frequented they found this young man. He was quiet, self-contained, and mas- ter of himself. Apparently he had `nothing to conceal from the world, but when the detectives stated. their mission his true nature flared out. There was a sudden gleam of steel, a flash, a report, and De- tective Quinn pitched forward 7n his tracks, dead. Biaul was saved only by a hitch in the working of the weapon. Before Marx could right the defect in the mechanism Biaul was grappling with him for dear life. Assistance came to the detective, and he succeeded in se- curing his man. In Marx the police felt confident they bed secured' one of the murderous gang of bandits who had NEW VICEROY OF INDIA WHICH OF HIS PREDECESSORS WILL ILE FOLLOW'? now Lord Minto Ras Rescued Ins dia Prom the Grip oR Anarchism. this incline the polis had to charge, The officers advanced in a circle and were allowed to get so near that they thought the robbers had escaped. Driscoll, one of the detectives, picked up a stickand fling it playfully at the hut. There came a flash, a sharp report, and Driscoll fell forward At the same in stint Roeski appeared at the deer. and was ordered to surrender. He darted back into the cave, and promptly the magazine guns of the bandits began to volley at the officers. Concealing themselves behind trees and bushes as best they could, the police A correspondent writes The London Daily Chronicle from Cal- cutta as follows: -- Lord Hardinge is confronted with an exceptionally difficult task in being sent to India, but he has one great advantage. His two prede- cessors have provided him with in- imitable object lessons es to how the, country should be governed and how it should not. If he goes wrong after noting the contrast be- tween the methods of Lord Curzon and Lord Minto—and the results— he will be more to blame than ei- ther of them. If there is a danger in appoint- ing a man of Lord Hardinge's an- tecedents to the Viceroyalty, it is that he has spent much of his life in a bureaucratic atmosphere. It is absolutely certain that if he has become imbued with that atmos- phere he will fail as Lord Curzon failed. It is a pathetic fact that, although Lord Curzon came out with a strong prejudice against the bureaucratic principle, and made more than one determined attempt to override it, he speedily became a convert to it, and towards the end of his career in India stood forth as RETURNED THE FIRE. Suddenly, through the smoke, two men ran crouching from the dug- out. One of them, Emil Roeski, sped away in flight, but Harvey Van Dine, the second outlaw, was made of different stuff. He had been a soldier in Cuba, and had seen seryice in the Philippines. He retreated slowly step by step, keeping up a withering fire mean- while, A minute later Niedemier emerg- ed from the hut. The two young desperadoes were not in the least excited by the firing, but backed away toward the tracks of the Michigan Central Railway the re- volvers in each of their hands speakingseteadily. Detective Zim• mer exposed himself slightly, and Van Dine shot him through the arm. Before he fell to the ground another bullet from Van Dine's re- volver had entered his head. Hampered as they were with kill ed and wounded the police were ob- liged to give up the chase for the moment. Van Dine and Niedem- ier cut across the country till they reached the track of the Pennsyl- vania Railway. Here they boarded a switch engine which laid on the side track, and compelled the driv- er to run them down the line. The fireman attempted to grapple with them and was shot dead. Now, however, the whole countryside was roused. Hundreds of men were in pursuit and ultimately the two bandits, were obliged to abandoc the engine and take to a swamp. Here they were sighted by the pur- suers, who turned loose A VOLLEY OF BIRD SHOT TERRORIZED CHICAGO for many months, It having been arranged among the bandits that if any member of the gang was caught'the rest were to dynamite the prison to secure his escape. Marro grew moody and bitter when he found no rescue was. sittempted,' and concluded that his, aecomplroes had deserted him. Perhaps in pique, perhaps in fear, he Vitiated out the full story of the robbery and murder at the sheds of the Chicago City Railway Com- pany. Thus the police discovered' that there were four in the gang— Gustave Marx, Peter Niedemier, Harvey Van Dino, and Emil Roe - ski. Ultimately the pollee tracked the last three to some rough country in Indiana, where they were Iiving in a smell dug -out on a hill top which commanded the approach from the tn.iway embankment • below: Up shins if you live in the fog, upon the weary refugees, which caught Niedemier full in the face, while Van Dina received his share in the hands, face and throat. "The game's up," said Niedem- ITS ZEALOUS CHAMPION. His inherent tendencies were too strong for him. He was a bureau- crat of bureaucrats. That is .why he was drawn into errors which, coming at the time they did, have lied a most serious and lasting in- fluence upon the loyalty of British India. Lord Minto leaves India having achieved the almost incredible task of rescuing it from the grip of an- archism by the administration of drastic purgatives, and at the same time building up anew the loyalty upon which his predecessor had made such an exhausting drain. He has done this, speaking roughly, by never allowing the man tobe merg- ed in the official—by bringing his strong commonsense and good feel- ing resolutely to bear upon every question, and refusing to be flat- tered or hoodwinked into any pol- icy of which his conscience disap- proved. It has been a tremendous strug- gle. The forces of officialdom are powerful even in England, as Lord Morley knowse but in India they are almost irresistible, and to have done what the retiring Viceroy has managed to do in spite of them ier, and Van Dine nodded a surly' assent. The two thereupon emerg- ed from their shelter and surren- dered. Chained wrist to wrist, their hair matted with dried blood, their eyes haggard, and their faces pallid, these two beardless out- laws—for neither was more than twenty—were put aboard a train for Chicago. That night they sat before Mayor Harrison and Chief of Police O'Neil, calmly confessing their share in the four months' war which they had just•'finrshed wag- ing against society. Marx and Niedemier, posing as desperadoes of the worst kind, even confessed to murders which they did not com- mit. Yet it is probable that Nie- demier, .as a boy of fourteen, shot a detective in Ontario for ordering him from the top of a freight train. In prison Niedemier made two attempts to commit suicide, but he did not succeed; and ultimately, he together with Marx and Van Dine, was executed, while Roeski receiv- ed a life sentence. Thus the cur- tain was rung down on one of the most amazing episodes in the his• tory of Chicago; for, including themselves, eleven lives had neon sacrificed to pay the penalty of their wild attempts to disregard the laws of society. Has been Canada's favorite. Yeast over a quarter of a century. Enough for 5 oto to produce 5Q large loaves of fine, wholesome, pour 'fishing, home-made bread. Do not experiment—there is nothing "just as good.", E. W. GILLETT CO. LTD. Winnipeg TORONTO, OHT. Montrece Awarded highest honors et !.M•.e..Y all Expositions, results has been far more success- ful as an Imperial statesman than most of our recent proconsuls. The result is that both Europeans and Indians are vying with each other to do him honor, and that the pro- posal to .set up a memorial, which in Lord Curzon's case had to be underwritten by the Chamber of Commerce, has, in Lord Minto's case, already been oversubscribed. If Lord Hardinge will only tread in Lord Minto's footsteps he will leave behind him, when'his turn comes to go, an India still further tranquilized and prosperous. If he treads in Lord Curzon's foot- steps he will undo all the good work that has been done during the last five years, and will raise the de- mon of unrest in still more formid- able shape. All temptations will urge him to the latter course. The greater credit will be due to him if he hasthe courage and the wis- dom to resist them. 0 EE DITION THE SEEDS. OF S INDIAN STUDENTS EXPOSED TO BAD INFLUENCES. _ r Plea for the Protection of the Young Men From the Great Eastern Empire. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, England, the new Viceroy of In- dia, speaking at a banquet tender- ed him recently by old Harrovians, said he had had a conversation with an Indian gentleman of great abil- ity who had made it his ^business to be in touch with some of the, large number of Indian' students who were working in English uni- versities, hospitals, and jaw schools, and this had provided'him with food for serious reflection. Most of those young students were argues a'capacitywhich few people young men of good family in India, would have given the quiet little often sent to England at consider man credit for. Of course he has able sacrifice by s heir parents, some frequently been compelled to give of the most loyal British subjects way. The point is that Lord Min- in order that they might obtain a to has succeeded in his main object good education in England and as- -that of tranquilizing India and sociate with English gentlemen of setting its feet once more upon the good repute and paths of SOCIAL POSITION.. ORDERLY PROGRESS. Unfortunately, whether the Not least among the factors which fault was with the English or the have helped Lord Minto has been Indian students,or with their mas 5i - the steady courage with which he has pursued his policy, in spite of opposition on the right hand and the left, in spite of threatened breakdown in health, in spite of more than one attempt upon his life. A weak man might easily have .allowed himself to be stam- peded by the anarchist outrages in- to reaction pure and simple. So far, was this from being the case with Lord Minto that he laid- his reform schemes before the Legisla- tive Council the very day after the last and most daring of these out- rages had been committed. It is true that he deported a doz- en or to agitators from India, and kept them in prison without trial for some months. But what is not perhaps realized as it should be is that but for Lord Minto and Lord Morley these men would be in prison to -day. It is notorious that the bureaucracy was solid against their release, and it is also notori- ous that if the officials had'their way there would have been depor- tations upon a very much larger scale. While on the ono hand Lord Minto has been execrated for de- porting a dozen men, on the other hand he has been sworn at for not deporting a thousand. And when he diad the hardihood to release the nine Bengali deportees at the be- ginning of this year, • you would. have imagined that there was going to be another "White Mutiny" in Calcutta l Now that be is going, both In- dians and Europeans are beginning to realize SENTENCE SERMONS. It is easy to show mercy to our masters. Truth is found only by following that you have. Character is what we wrest from temptation. One may fight a bo and still nob follow the truth. Life's danger lies nob in its Heights but in its cliffs. Temptations to wander never AS - sail a hitching past. He cannot attain greatness who ters and teachers, he (the speaker) heard that they mixed rarely to- gether in their universities and law schools, and 'that Indian students were exposed to evil influences and temptations that could only be re- sisted successfullyby a strong mor- al sense of right and duty. He had heard of regrettable in- stances of attempts at seditious and disloyal propogonda amongst' the students, but he trusted that the poison had not sunk deep. It should be the duty of everyone to do all in their power to assist and protect the Indian students from all pernicious influences at the univer- sities or elsewhere, and at the same time to make their lives happy in England while in pursuit of their studies. Those young men, when they returned to India, would be the flower of the educated minor- ity in that country, and would be in a position to exercise influence on many, whether for. WHAT HIS HAS DONE, The former see their' public methyl - ties broadened and quickened, with eclt-government crowning. the long vista. The latter look round then and 'find the country tranquilized without any of those terrible ef- fects which f-fects,which were so confidently pre diciuel from the Tiro -native'' policy cannot admire it. of the Vier. ray. And it kris just be - ids no use preaching on sun- gun to riawn upon thein that the pending ctorma that they shut out bear brought about these all present sunlight. Perfection Beverages TEA AND COFFEE Have won popular favor on their merits. Try them to -day and you will be charmed. A STIRRING FINISH. Interosting Story of a Race Across the Atlantic., Racing across the Atlantic Ocean in a forty -rater seems like a dan- gerous undertaking. Such it prov- ed to be, says. Mr. G. E. Hop- croft, who had the experience some years ago on board the Arrow, the British winner over the American Old Glory. The start was made, Mr. Hoperoft relates in Cassell's Magazine, in the month of Decem- ber from Southampton. The goal was to be Sandy Hook. For the first few days of the contest nothing of any importance happened; but then the wind increased, and by night- fall was blowing it gale. The sea was getting worse every moment, and the yachtwas ship- ping a lot of water. I could see that the skipper was uneasy. The great seas came hissing along, and even under a small trysail, the yacht had too much canvas set. About midnight a great wave struck:, the boat, and she was thrown upon her beam -ends. The shook brought the swinging lamp in the saloon down with a crash. I tried to cross the room,, but a great mass of water rushed below, drenched me, and . half-filled the place. The skylight had been smashed by the waves. I reached the deck, soaked through and shivering with cold. The night was inky black and the sea was rougher than ever. The waves seemed to tower over our lit-' tie ship as if they wanted to crush us. Everything was black except the foam cap of the great seas that shone in a strange, unearthly way. Theskipper took the helm him- self, and tried to get the ya,cht before the wind; for like most of the yachts of that period, she was too much cut away forward to lay to with safety. As the night wore on, the storm increased. It seemed to be only a matter of time and chance whenwe should be overtaken by oneof the great waves and sunk under its pressure. About four o'clock in the morn- ing we shipped a lot of water, and decided to try to see whether the vessel would ride with a sea -anchor. Two small casks were made fast with a stout piece of wood, and to this a strong line was made fast. Once headed to the wind, we lay in comparative safety. At length day dawned, and with the force` of the waves broken, we felt reassur- ed. RIGHT OR WRONG. Lord Morley had made efforts dur- ing the last few year::: to improve the position of the Indian students, but there was still much that might be Bono which must necessarily be left to private initiative and to the good feeling of English students. The question was vee of concern to the future of the Empire. A little kindness shown to young Indians would repay itself a thousandfold by the spread in India of a warmer spirit of loyalty and devotionto the Empire. He saw no reason to doubt the loyalty of the great masses in India. Ile (the speaker) was full of .hope, that tho unrest in India would disappear under the influence. of sympathy` and kindness connbin- ed with firmest, and that it would give place to a period of calm and of prosperous commercial and ag- ricultural expansion. SoSome get so :anxious over im- Soon after this adventure the wind went down, and wseq made sail again. For some days we'l'led splen- did breezes. All this time we had heard nothing of our rival, but we slow in developing. He s unlike believed that she was a hundred the ordinary, vivacious ,Bruise miles astern by now. News from a youngster of his age, and mach passing liner, however, told us refers sittingabsolutely still with that she was two hours tamed. We his ittle hans gravely folded to sent up our largest club -topsail on running _about in the palace gar - hearing this, and in spite of the dens risk, eta jib-tol,sail. at that moment the shores of the New World came into view. The wind increased, and we be- gan to gain once more. But Sandy Hook was in sighs Foot by foot we came up with our rival; the people on the steamers roared their excitement, and the bands played British and American tunes. Half a mile from the finishing -level, and we were overtaken by a Brit- ish battleship on her way to New York; , As she passed us the men lined up on the deck and cheered and cheered again. The band played !'Rule Britannia," and we crossed the line, the winner of the great race by fifty-five seconds! TILE JUNIOR PARTNER. How He First Came to Find Favor With Ills Employer. "Our junior partner," said a bu- siness mars, "came to us as a boy. We had two boys at that time,both equally promising, but one of these boys has since risen only to be a junior clerk in our shipping depart- ment, while -the other has now be- come our junior partner. How did we coma to know which was which l I will tell you. "When I came down to the stare one morning .I found one of the boys sweeping the sidewalk and hr was sweeping against the wind. Dust and litter blowing back over the space he had swept, and he going back to sweep it, up again. Nice boy and meant well, but lack- ed the kindling spatk of quick in- telligence. It didn't dawn on him that he was sweeping the wrong way. "Next day I found the other boy sweeping and he was sweeping the right way, with the wind. No dust and litter blowing back, to be up again with, loss of time, but ev- erything going with him. He was sweeping the sidewalk cleaner, making a better job of it, and in half the time. Even at that age the boy had good sense and intelli- gence, a faculty for doing things the rightway, and this faculty he developed more and -more strongly as he went along." ALPHONSO'S CHILDREN -PUNY Inherit His Weakness rather than Their Mother's Health. More stories on good authority are being heard to• the effect that Spain's royal children have inher- ited; the weakness of their father rather than the blooming health of their mother. The Prince of t'u• Asturias, to be sure, resembles the Queen and seems fairly stnoug, Lea, is lacking in vitality and ds very ACROSS AFRICA IN MOTOR' YOUNG AUSTRIAN OFFICER: WILL ATTEMPT ADVENTURE. The Craft is Being Built Specially, and WiilsStart From the East Coast. Lieut. Paul' Granath, the young Austrian officer who made the first journey across Africa' in a motor oar, isabout to make a similar jour- ney in a motor boat. fie expects to start from Chinde. on the east Boast, After ascending; the Zambesi and the Shire to Lake. Nyassa, he will reach the water- shed dividing the river's which flow to the east from those, which flow' to the west. His motor boat will be carried overland for a distance of about twenty miles. A kind of bicycle car- nage has been constructed for THE OVERLAND JOURNEY, which will enable the boat, to be pushed across country with ease, even if there are no roads. , The boat will then be taken dowia the Fife and the Chambezi Rivers to the unexplored Bangualo Lake. Lieut: Graetz states that this lake has never been traversed by a Eu- ropean. He passed near it on his motor car journey, but the natives refused to allow him to make a voyage on the lake in a canoe, as they declared it wasguarded by enormous serpents and filled with water spouts of boiling water. A careful survey of this lake is one of the objects of the expedition. , The river issuing from Bangualo Lake is one of the headwaters of the Congo, and THIS GREAT WATERWAY will be reached after traversing Lake Meru. The boat will then proceed down the Congo to Boma, at its mouth. Lieut. Graetz's motor boat has been specially built for the expedi+ tion. It -has a draught of only twelve inches. It is twenty-eight feet long, and four and a half, feet wide, and is fitted with an eight horse -power Daimler motor. Four natives from German East Africa will be taken as crew. The jour- ney will take about seven months. Another Austrian explorer, :Herr Arbauer, intends making his way through the Tibesti district within the Sahara. It is inhabited by un- friendly tribes. Several other explorers, includ- ing an Englishman named Richard- son, were murdered while travel- ling through the country. DON'T TALK ABOUT YOUR AGE A Man of Experience M.alces a Sug- gestion to Old and Young "Don't," said a man of exper- ience, "tell people your age. "I don't mean by that that you want to lie about it; indeed you want to tell the truth if it's neces- sary; but what I mean is, don't go around blottingabout it. Keep it, to yourself. "You meet men who are proud of their' age, men of mature years; but who are still strong and rugged and able, that like to tell how old they. really are, and then you meet youthful men who are getting on in the world and doing fine things that like to tell how young they really are. Mistakes both. "The mature man may really look years younger than he is, and if he does that is to his great ad- vantage, for the majority ..of peo- ple don't like old men around; they want young blood. And as for the young man who may look older but who boasts of his youth, that's a mistake because ,people don't like men too young; they want men seasoned with at least some age and experience. "It's a foolish man, however able he may be, who goes around talk- ing about haw old or how young he really is, This can't do him any good and it may do him harm. It is 0 wise man, whatever his age, that doesn't talk about, his age at all but let's his work do the talk- ing." Pu nce Jaime, the second boy, Daring the next two clays we wereas suffering froSt. Vitas signaled by two liners and e brig. canhoebforeen some time, andin" this and The Old Glory was still ahead, first his generally delicate. health: have by a few hours, and then, a little been traced to a growth' in his later by one hour and twenty min - throat, The doctors have decided utes. Thick weather prevented our seeing her. The next morning the sun came out of the mist, and by ten o'clock the horizon was clear. To our joy, we saw the Old Glory away to the northwest,reaching away to the west under w press of sail. Foot by foot we. gained upon. her, but we know that we wore now quite near to the American ooast. Should we manage to will, nr would the American keep her death For some hours we gained, then the' wind dropped a, little, and the American, with bor larger sail area, seemed to draw away again. Just not to operate on' him yet, as they tale ash tree seven years ago and Kink ofhmay ; suffers outgrow t. has thrived heartily:- The limb Icing, coursr., suffers iii .. si .... . 1 loetors' have alwr •s Itro the first fruit last season, and way, and the t y . PEARS ON ASII TREES. Wisconsin Tian Produces Fines Fruit Than Before 'Grafting,. Martin Pederson,' of Marinette, Wis., has earned a reputation as a wizard gardener. Hundreds visit- ed his home for a eight of the pears growing ona mountain ash tree. The limb on which the pears grew was grafted on the sturdy mould hesitated i;o operate upon his this y� throat;' Prince Jaime is to bq I';derson isnot a profession - throat, kept in the sea :dr as much as pas- . Mr. the year pears readies per Brice e ape l stud sible. The babyPrincess Beatrice al gardener, but has made y of i;he soli act beingos iall ex- pert is an extremely delicatechild. l oc p y pert in grafting and in thegrow• ing of _shrubbery. He believes that Faith le not preeatve41 by ern- the grafting of pears on mountain baiming it inancient verbiage.r ash trees might be followed with i It's alwgys tomorrows Interiors rases as ,ry Business, as thr heli that breaks the heck of Lesley, tlntrs cnit.dvat•ecl is larger, rfah.r:r aur,' Faith is often the sense for faciamom, Int pious than its . nal;urttl as set above all fallacies. state.