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Show CONFESSES KILLING FIVE . Gustavc Marx, Car Barn Bandit, Tells of His Bloody Career. CHICAGO, March lt-Qustave Marx, one of the three car barn bandlta now under sentence of death, declared in a confession yesterday i that - he was one of the three men who held up the Chicago Chi-cago & Northwestern express train near Dekalb four rears ago. The crime, which has passed into history as one of the most desperate ever committed in or about Chicago, has never been fastened upon any one. Marx aays both his confederates In the robbery are dead and he refuses to give their nsmes. One of them, be declares, "died with his boots on." The railway authorities admitted a loss of S102.000 by the robbery. Marx says the robbers secured se-cured only SS00O, the rest of the money having been destroyed by the explosion of dynamite used to crack the safe. In a sort of foot note to this startling confession, Marx admits the killing of five men in bis career. "Besides John B. Johnson, killed at the car barn, Detective Quinn, killed at the time of my arrcat and Otto Bauder. whom Roeskl Is generally supposed to have killed, I have killed two other men. "Eight' years ago Nledermeler and I went to Janeavllle, Wia, to rob a train, and hid onr dynamite alongside the track. A trackwalker or railway detectiveI detec-tiveI have never learned which came upon ua and asked us what we were doing do-ing there. I shot blm and we threw his body into Rock river. "The other man whom I killed I had done criminal work with In Michigan. I met him at Camp Oold field, Colo., when Nledermeler and I were there last fall. He knew too much about me, and I killed hlra and left his body lying In the suburbs of the camp. Both these crimes csn be verified by the police." No Such Crime Committed. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 14. No such crime as Gustav Marx, the Chicago bandit, describes In his confession, con-fession, has been committed in the Cripple Creek district within the past year. All crimes committed in that district have been run to earth and fastened on some person. |