Eureka Reporter | 1904-03-18 | Page 2 | Killed Five Men

KILLED FIVE MEN chicago car band t confesses to long lica of crimes gustav marx one of the three achl cago car barn bandits now under sen tence of death declared in a confes sion made sunday that he was one ot the three men who held up the achl cago northwestern express train near dekalb four years ago the crime which has passed into history as one of ohp most desperate ever committed in or about chicago has never been fastened upon anyone marx says both his confederates in the robbery are dead and he lefouses to give their names one of them he declares died with his boots on the railway authorities admitted a loss of by the robbery marx says the robbers secured only 8 the rest of the money having been destroyed by the explosion of dynamite used to crack the safe in a sort of footnote to this startling confession marx admits the killing of five men in his career