Fort Wayne News, The (Newspaper) - April 22, 1904, Fort Wayne, Indiana v ti V 1 i C 1 iP INDIANA WEATHER j I Showeis and Thunderstorms Tonight J ard Saturday South World is Rid of Desperate Heartless Murderers Collapsed at the End and Was Put in a Chair on the Dine and Marx Were Resigned and They Died CHICAGO April meier Maix and Van Dine were executed in the Cook county jail this morning The men met death with fortitude meier refusing to accept belief in any religion He spent his horns di- guing with Catholic The men were converted and tized in that faith They lowed to the gallows by their con- verters who o be repeated by them until the drop fell Two Died Painlessly Van Dine and Marx died They were men a fall of four feet broke their necks a lithe and light writhed in at the end of a lope while 200 spectators watched his If the authorities will lit the i datives who are fte will admission fee to the was carried to lis death the jailer and sheriff cell to lead the death warrant the bandit at them He continued until the di op fell Goes First was the first to go was caused his refusal to the guards to escort him to the scaffold He was carried through the long corridor A thousand signalled the hour of execution by shouring Hats A shout wained those in the execution ber of the approach of the condemned man Guards with the victim snd denly appealed from the ing the second tier of cells dermeier was pal and trembling The smile that was his facial istic seemed grimly of place The doomed man was quickly pushed into an upright position on the drop Jailer Whitman strapped his arms and legs as a further precaution The bandit's vv condition made these preparations seem unnecessary his nature excused the care hanged While The white domino was thrown the man's shoulders next adjusting the noose slipping the knot under his ear Without waiting an instant the jailer stepped back and the drop fell Convulsive movements of the en- sued The physicians an- that death was apparently from strangulation re- fused to stand and was placed in a chair The fell with The drop For six utes the twisted Doctors Gather About The doctors it and fell he pulse Until the man is said one he his lie too numbed to foci physical pain but his mind is not too clouded to know the import of what is digestion will in a moments when consciousness will The legs be up the begins to in the brain Then consciousness erase and a few minutes will the The tinners of the doctors felt a pulse on the wrist of the strangling man foi full live imitates The beats then became weaker and moie irregular momentarily until they ceased in about nine minutes After were occasional that were perceptible un- iil life was Showed Weakness died to be converted to the church He ed so in Lis convictions that the up in despair He too weak to much could not alone in the chair on the He held his head to enable the jailer to place the noose Then hig head fell on his Body Is Down The body was cut down at The said the neck was at the cervical brae He was not asked the maiy questions Despite his the condemned man made h's toilet carefully resting after the ex- of donning each garment On his cell saw pial men watching him He don't jou get those necks out of TV o of- and witnessed the executions Bid Other Farewell After was re- moved Whitman closed the tiap and tested the rope for the ond victim Tie a drop of he feet Then he to the chapel in the debtors department to to death Maix was with the and sisters of He rose and tiled to speak His voice failed He turned to Van Dine had been kneeling with him Marx extended his hand Van Dine grasped it The two men stood silent for a moment then embraced Good-bye exclaimed Van Dine Keep a brave heart old man Do the priest We shall be together again Marx answered in a tone inaudible save to Van Dine and the sisters of Then began the second journey to the scaffold A was sent ahead of the ion and ordered the spectators to their hats Marx Walks to Gallows Mir among nearest the cor- ridor and another shout by the caused silence to fall on the execution chamber Maix walked to the He woie a black snit uid a white rose in his coat He quietly to being strapped Two followed him and which he repeated in a 22 1904 PAGES CAN IS AfA TO THE OF WILL DEMAND voice The drop fell at Did Not Speak V Hie big body fell Instantly it and convulsed The con- lasted two Death in six minutes after the diop being taken to the scaffold Maix concentrated his mind on re- ligion He asked the jailer not to him to speak As he stepped on The tiap he a crucifix before the cap was over his head he kissed the symbol He in the midst of having Hist repeated the wolds Holy when the drop fell The priests ed over the until it was lowered in a basket The flower in the coat not The condemned man's half-grown gave it to him when she kissed him farewell the night before The body was cut down at was one of the and most painless in the history of the jail The yellow grass rope that strangled the two murderers was from the neck of the second victim again tried and tested for the victim Physicians expressed the opinion that neck was broken between the first and second vertebrae Van Dine Executed Van Dine was found at the executioners again the chapel Two were praying with him They bade him be brave placed a in his hands and took positions by his side He bent his ejes on the cross and began the death march His guards towered above and almost concealed him from view On the on the lows he repeated the words of a He also wore a white rose in his black coat He held his head erect to permit adjustment of the noose While he was uttering the prayer the drop fell at His muscular body hung without a ment for a moments Death was almost instantaneous the neck ing been broken Van Dine's body down eleven minutes after the trap was sprung The Last Hours of the Bandits Niedermeier Keeps Up His Show of Nerve Last Property Owned by 2 Wheat I Reach Admiral Tells the Czar How the Japs Sunk Two of His Warships LONDON April Port Arthur correspondent of the Central News wires that news has been received of the complete destruction C he are v The large grain at New Haven owned by Z of ledo was totally destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock this morning The loss is in the neighborhood -911 partly covered by Incendiarism is given as the cause cf the fire The town is much up over the fire as theie has been theie between the people and the saloon Mrs of the local manager being pi ly with The elevator was located near the Nickel Plate tracks Bi cad way It had a capacity of bushels though Jack wap was in charge did not care to malce a statement at present it is the amount of grain in the structure at the time cf the fire was about bushels They Had The fire was discovered by several people in different of the town about the same An alarm was given by ringing and ing the whistle stave factory Practically the Village turned out to help the fire ment quench the blaze The New Haven water works system run unde high pressure is used for fires and there is no engine As the water works plant stops running at 8 o'clock in the evening and does not begin until 5 ii the morning there was no water to be had and tne fire fighters were forced to see granary go up in smoke and flames It is improbable that much could have been done to save it as the fire was leaping from the top of the elevator when the fire men arrived Soon nothing was left but a heap of ashes me Incendiary Theory Although the charge of incendiarism is only a rumor some facts give rise to the suspicion The elevator had not been in operation for two days and there was no fire about the place The fire started In the coiner occupied for an office and spread rapidly to all parts of the structure Jack Travis the local manager will not talk about the fire until the insurance adjusters have arrived He is the man who re- cently filed suits against Fort Wayne gamblers CHICAGO April meier weak pale from his attempt at suicide stubbornly refusing to em- biace religion within a few hours of certain death joking and laughing with the death watch and smoking the greater part of the night isolated Harvey Van Dme and Marx guards who spent the on Tenth HAWS THE LAW FOR THEIR GRIMES ANOTHER FORM OF EXECUTION UTAH MAN WHO BILLED ELEVEN PEOPLE DEATH AT V SALT LAKE April Fiank Rose the was ex- this rifle bullets found lodgment of the heart Rose confessed to ten other murders Hose he Ijad passed fourteen In committing successive crimes fiom was his first crime according to his story From that he into of description and Instances he had killed d little money Kose he had In San where with n companion Who was him on the Santa Fe the bay from the city The was found In the bay and Rose sAys ne murdered him In St Louis according to Rose's confession he was guilty of a number of crimes including murder Wants Home the Homo Where Govern the in ike tt on Delaware died In the wants it for his Pt purchase price li in whose r who is here p Bowery After- ho of John O The cGovern the An Exhibit Kaiser Sends His Picture as a Gift BERLIN April Wilhelm has presented his picture to the hol exhibition in Vienna The picture bears his majesty's autograph and the following The mineral treasures from the depth of the earth are exhaustible but the sun causes light strength and warmth The in- scription refers to the preparation of alcohol from potatoes MURDER MYSTERY MISS PAGE MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED FOR WAS MISSING WALTHAM Mass April ing of L Tucker in the Page murder case was icsuroed this morning and the cross-examination of Miss Amy Roberts a servant in the Page home was continued She was asked if Miss Page had money in the house on the day of the she said that she did but did not know the amount had and la that She took the desk draper f was putting on my to go out When I saw her take thff money out of the was Important In view of the Miss hat kiter Hie murder he found only a little change in his possession Mr evident purpose was to find out If a bery mas committed ftt of the murder Miss Roberts declared that after the not found ST roy to the full report of the of the shin ami the Russian on 11 The renoit is published today It an amplified account of what is already known to the world A take bv the of the who mistook Japanese for Russian k-d to the greater the of the Started to the Rescue The Japanese n the of the Diana but half v Japanese cruisers appeared n their places and attacked the iana It was then that stalled to the rescue of the ianu reports After a short fusillade at a distance of jauis i of Japanese battleships and the ships re- ired At a ths explosion he light side of the Petropavlovsk hen a second explosion under her bridge A of smoke was seen o lisc from the battleship her budge and turret were up and the battleship keeled jv er on her starboard side The ship vas surrounded by flames and in Iwp sank bow Japs Laid the Mines tells the of severi officers Giand Cyril and seventy three seamen all that sunned from the ill-fated battleship It was while nearing the harbor that the battleship Pobieda met a like faie a mine under he of the ship She listed but entered the harbor Alexieff makes no the damage by the Pobieda An indication that the Japanese the fatal mines is given by He that the night preceding the lights and ships seen in the distance Ad- miral in person he says watched this movement from the Diana until dawn The says the inoi ale of despite the which has attended the Pacific fleet RUSSIANS ARE FLEEING Hundreds Are Drowned In Crossing the Yalu special dis- patch to the Times fiom states that a messenger from the Yalu reports Japanese outposts near the Russian entrenchments with large bodies five miles distant The senger states that the Russians ing north across the liver in over- is Gen Gelinski cue of Russia's younger officers but considered a master of detail crowded boats are losing hundreds jy The newspaper to the Russian who left for Mukden lay had to bind themselves not to respecting the of engagements the enemy the suffered by the in- which might awaken lic uneasiness Rumors About Alexieff Morgen Post today repeats the report that Alexieff Russian viceroy of the far east has tendered his to tha The says the paper has not accepted the nation but bade the and Km opal Kin to co-operate in the work of for land hostilities Fire Destroys Plans ST April within the naval today a number of important plans JUDGE POWERS ON THE STAND TELLS HOW HEADS OF THE WON CHURCH WERE SENT TO PRISON WASHINGTON 0 W who was appointed by President Cleveland in as an associate justice if the couit of Utah was the flist witness in the Reed Smoot case this at Die of the hearing iy the senate committee The lons undei the Edmonds act was just be- ginning there at the time and theie ully a bundled cases of polygamy and cohabitation tiled him nd convictions All but two or hiee of the convictions weie for mous cohabitation the difficulty of ng marriages the ew convictions for polygamy snow one of twelve apostles was mong those convicted Judge is and was sentenced to the penitentiary Ic was elected of he chuich hauling a load of stone when the hoises became f lightened and lan overturning the loaded wagon beneath which Captain Clemans fell lie was dragged dis- tance and terribly mangled especially about the face and part of the body His wife witnessed the accident and ran to him and dragged him out but he was unconscious and died a few minutes later nas an and prominent in Wabash county He was 65 years old and leaves a widow and one son ing the Spanish-American war he was commissioned a of a company but his company was not in Cuba Tha captain was a delegate to the lican state convention next week Gapt Clemans Killed Wabash Man Meets Violent Death in Ind B Clemans until Jan 1 was auditor t Wabash county and who prior to mo had been joint senator fiom Wabash nd counties was killed afternoon on near county f Negro Meets Death Confesses to Murder and Is Lynched by a Mob i MOBILE Ala April special from Bayminette says that Sheriff has from the scene of the murder of Dr Cole at Little River to report to the governor the lynching of Ruebin Sims a negro by the of Monroe county at North Baldwin ten hours before he was notified of the murder Sims con- after ana was hanged to and bullets Emperor's Visit of the Hungarian railway i emperor's visit to Budapest day has beea The minister of Var fearing that trouble may has ordered that should be detained
