The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-18

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A London paper gives narrative of
terrible Scene which lately occurred in
railway car on the road from Liverpool to
London, where two passengers were at
tackled by mailman, and had narrow
escape with their lives. The story is as
| follows:
Two travellers, Mr.. Mclean and q
Mr.. Worland, took seats in second class
carriage by the Friday night express from
Liverpool to London. In the same COM
partment vera moody looking Irishman
and an elderly woman. The freshman
sat BY one window, the woman near the
other, and the two men between. Until
the train passed Bletchley the sedate pas
senger was hardly noticed by the others.
1t is true that he had now and again
talked to himself somewhat fercely, and
seemed to be threatening an invisible foe.
| Mr.. Mclean and Mr.. Worland glanced at
him, and then continued in friendly chat.
Now, it SO happened that the man had
been insane, and was rapidly growing in
sane again. A wild notion was fast ae-
curing the strength of fixed idea. The
tive men in familiar chat were, in his
mind, thieves planning how they could
rob him, and he was resolving to be the
first in the field.
There was some method 10 his madness,
4 for he postponed the execution OF his pro-
ject until the train had fairly started on
it's last run to London. AS soon as it left
Bletohley the maniac drew knife
and stabbed Mr.. Worland in the head
He drew back his arm to renew the stroke,
when Mr.. Mclean, who seems to have
had his wits about him. knocked him
back into his seat. Springing up, the
mapiac made another dash at the now in
sensible Worland, but here he was foiled
again BY Mclean, who gripped his throat
and his armed hand, and close combat
began. All the time the train few rap
idly through the country. The woman
sitting near the other window had done
all she could to alarm the driver by vast
iihe her tthie morning
Inow lay insenslble from effect of terror
The mailman drew the blade Of his knife
through the fingers of Mclean, ant
thrust with it wildly.
Worland had now regained his senses
and he at once entered into the combat
getting behind the mailman, and THROWN,
him down. The maniac's yells were loud
er than those of the woman; they wer
continuous, but neither guard nor drive
heard them. And so the tragedy contin
ued-one long act--a raving maniac hel'
down by two men, all covered with blood
lighted by a drip lamp aud the gray dawn
For forty long miles this scene lasted seel
by none except those engaged in tn
strife, until a ticket collector hastily open
ing the poor, saw the two gashed ant
haggard men bending over tho exhausted
mailman on the blood stained floor.
Since the French police found the bod,
of murdered Judge in railway CARR
age, nothing SO terribly has occurred 0
course the madman--for he must bav
been mad-was taken before magistrate
and there he gave as reason for his con
duct The explanation we have alread
mentioned--he thought the two mel
were about TO rob him. He turns out +
be an Irish schoolma.ter. Michael Ly on
BY name, coming to London on mike
errand Of, business and pleasure II
lum for year, and of course every inqui
ry will be made into his past life an
character. He is now in the Bucks coun
ty Jail.