St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-01
SEIZED BY A MANIAC.
A Madman Takes Command Of Passen-
ger Train and Runs Things to <
Suit HIMSELF
Drawing a Revolver He Orders Everybody
to Leave the Chair Car or Suffer
Death.
Wounds Several, But is Finally
Overpowered.
Richard Hands, New York Drug
Clerk. Mystertously Murdered
,t, in the Store.
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A Thrilling Adventure.

A Thrilling Adventure.
CHICAGO May Passenger Train No.
6 on the Wabash, ST. Louis & Pacific rail
road arrived here to-day an hour and half
late, in charge Of a mailman. Out of the
twevle or fifteen men, officers and citizens,
who finally secured him, one officer is dead
shot through the bOdy-anOther probably
fatally wounded, several citizens injured,
and the lunatic himself lies in tile county
hospital, mortally wounded with three bull
lets in him. Shortly before noon to-day the
station policeman at the Wabash, ST. Louis
IL Pacific depot on Polk street, received
the following dispatch:
Chenoa, Ill, May 31.-I have an insane man
on my train who has possession of one car.
The police at Kansas City, Jacksonville and
Peoria were all afraid to take him. Please
take him when we arrive in Chicago. They
had better come in citizens clothes. They
will have to look sharp or some one will get
hurt. PUTNAM, Conductor No. 6.
No. 6, which left Kansas City last night,
was due here at $3.50 p. m. There was
difficulty in starting out No. 1, as directed
in the dispatch, and it was decided to meet
the train at the depot Officers Casey,
Ryan. Murphy. Rowan, Walsh, Stenning,
Dohney, Barrett and Keenan,, in uniform,
and Smith, Terry, Arnstein, O'Brien and
Laughlin, in citizens clotheS under the
command of Lieut.. Laugh, made up the
squad, which arrived at the depot
few minutes before the train was due.
The train being delayed, as was subse-
quently learned by Intellectual efforts to
capture the lunatic, the police were forced
to wait more than an hour. After consid-
,1ofs IN +tn
ton of things on board No. 6, the officers
patch from a suburban station warning
them that the maniac was well armed and
would resist desperately. Later No. 6 ap-
peared in sight, and
THE POLICE,
separating so as to form two squads,
awaited her arrival on either side of the
track. AS the train approached the whistle
sounded number of warning notes in quick
succession. People, hanging half way out
of the car windows, were seen to gesture
wildly to the crowd Before the train had
stopped dozen passengers jumped, to the
ground and fied looking back with blanched
faces. Officer Barrett was the first
to observe the lunatic. Barrett was
standing near the rear end of
the smoking car. The mailman, with lev
eled revolver, glared at him from the front
platform of the chair car, the length of a
car distant Barrett turned half around
and stopped instantly, but too late. A ball
from the lunatic's revolver struck him IN
the side and in five minutes he was dead.
One look at the maniac was enough to sat
isfy anyone that while his ammunition
lasted he would
NOT BE TAKEN ALIVE.
Seeing this, the officers, after removing
their wounded eomrade, began fusilade
through the windows of the smoking-ca
where the madman had taken refuge
After minute or two he plunged out on
the platform, fired couple of shots into
the crowd and dashed down Fourth avenue.
Officer Laughlin started in hot pursuit, and
at him the mnatic fired the last
shot in his weapon, but without
effect. The maniac stopped there
and awaited Laughlins coming with
cleaning eyes and frothing mouth. They
cllnched, the officer tripped his prisoner
and they both fell, the mailman meanwhile
beating Laughlin numerically on the head
with his revolver. The officer was in citi-
Zen's clothes and was set upon and terribly
pounded by an excited colored man, who
mistook the officer for the prisoner. The
rest of the squad arrived shortly, the maniac
was secured, taken first
TO CELL
and then to the hospital to have his wounds
dressed. When he realized that further
resistance was useless he grew calm and
said. quite nationally, that his name was
Louis Reaumesy, that he was % years old
and was en- route to his home in Detroit,
from Denver The trainmen- of No. tell
thrilling story of the trip from Kansas
City, where the man boarded the train.
At that place he remarked that
people were after him to lynch
him, and that if left alone
he would molest no one. At ElPaso. ILL.,,
he became violent and with revolver in
hand ordered the train men to cease max
ing some changes in the makeup of the
train. The passengers all left the chair
car, which the mailman made his head
quarters and were locked into the others.
No one dared approach him, and after he
had exchanged several shots with the city
marshal he ordered the train to proceed,
and from there to Chicago his will was the
only law obeyed.
Since his wounds have been dressed
Reaumesy has become somewhat more
communicative. He says he is
French Canadian by birth,
fresco painter by trade and has wife
and three children in Detroit. He wore
white sombrero, and as he ran down Fourth
avenue was thought by residents to be a
cowboy on a spree,
Literally Butchered.
New YORK, May 31.-John Lauer, day
clerk at Henry Crawford's drug store, ON
Hudson street, upon reporting for duty this
morning found the door unlocked. though
closed. Upon entering the back room