Chicago Car Barn Bandits

A string of robberies had plagued the city since early March 1903. Then, in July, the bandits killed two men while robbing Benjamin La Gross's saloon on North Ashland Avenue.

Toward the end of August, three boy bandits raided the city's car barns, killing two men before escaping with almost $2300. Since then, the police had beaten the streets for nearly two months with no results.

Detectives had dug up a few leads but nothing they could sink their teeth into.

The first real break in the case came in late November when detectives captured Gustave Marx. After that, things came together quickly.

The Chicago Car Barn Bandits is the first volume in Murder Ink, a new series combining crime reporting with a sampling of contemporary magazine and newspaper articles. This allows you to watch the story unfold as it did for contemporary readers.