Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-08-26
A Terrible Scene in a Rail Car--Passengers
Penned Up with Lunatio.

a London paper gives narrative Of ter
rible scene which lately occurred in railway
car on the road from Liverpool to London,
where two passengers were attacked by a
madman and had a narrow escape with their
lives. The story is as follows:
Two travellers, a Mr.. Mclean and Mr..
Worland, took seats in a second-class carriage
by the Friday night Express from Liverpool
to London In the same compartment we're
a moody-Ioolling Irishman and an elderly wo-
man. The Irishman sat by one window, the
woman near the other, and the two men be-
tween. Until the trail passed Bletchley the
sedate passenger was hardly noticed by the
others. 1t is true that he had now and again
talked to himself lfsomewhat fercely and seem
ed 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 insane again. A wild
notion was fast acquiring the strength Of
fixed idea. The two 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 in his madness,
for he postponed the execution of his project
until the train had fairly started on its last run
to London. As soon as it left Bletchley the
maniac drew knife and stabbed Nj. Wor-
land in the head. He drew back his arm to
repeat the stroke, when Mr.. Mclean, who
seems to have had his wits about him, knock
ed him back into his seat. Springing up, the
maniac made another dash,at the now insen-
sible 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 rapidly through the
country. The woman sitting near the other
window had done all she could to alarm the
driver by wasting her screams on the morn
ing air, and now lay insensibIe from the effect
Of terror. The madman drew the blade of his
knife through the fingers of Mclean, and
thrust with it wildly.
Worland had now regained his senses,
and be at once entered into the combat, get
ting behind the madman and throwing him
down. The maniacs yells were louder than
those Of the woman; they were continuous,
but neither guard nor driver heard them
And so the tragedy continued, one long act, |
q raving maniac held down by two men, all
covered with blood, lighted by a dim lamp
and the gray dawn. For forty long miles this
scene lasted, seen by ncne except those en-
gagged in the strife, until ticket collector,
hastily opening the door, saw the two gashed
md haggard men bending over the exhaust
ID madman, on the blood stained floor.
Since the French police found the body
# a murdered Judge in railway carriage,
lothing so terrible has occurred. OF course
he madman, for he must have been mad, was
AIKEN before magistrate, and there he gave
S reason for his conduct the explanation we
AVE already mentioned-he thought the two
men were about to rob him. He turns out
o be an Irish schoolmaster, Michael Lyons
y name, coming to London on a mixed er-
and Of business and pleasure. It is said that
e has been confined in an asylum for a year,
nd CT course every inquiry viii be made into
is past life and character. He is now in the
Bucks County Jail"