The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-03
A Medmsn Takes Possession Of a va.
bash Train aud Scares the Train.
men and Passengers.
a Squad Of CnicaEo Policemen at
the Depot TO Arrsst Him,
One Of Whom he
Kills.
FREAKs OF a nIANIAC.
he Takes Possession Of wabash Train no.
GzEhrilliBE Experiences OF Passengers
anG Train Men--8ills One Police
man and v on ads Another
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CHIcAeo, Nay 81 Passenger train No. 8,
en- the Waoss5, s.. Louis and Pacific Rail-
rOsd, arrived hers to-dsy sn hour and
half late in charge OF msdman. Oat OF
the twelve or fifteen men, ofhcsrs and citi-
zeus who finally secured him, one officer is
dead, shot through the body. another prob
ably fatally wounded several citizens lnjur.
ed, sad the lunatic himself lies in the coun-
ty hospital mortaliy wounded, with three
buIlels in him. Shortly before noon to-day
the station policemen at the Wabash, st.
Louis aud Pacific depot, on Polk street, re-
ceiyed the following dispatch:
''CHESOA, H.. Nay SI-L have insane man
on ny train, who has possession OF one car. The
police az Kansas CITY, Jacksonville and Peoria
we're all afraid to take hin. Please send me ten
twelve policemen out on No. 20 take MIN
cone in eiiizens' cIot6es. They viii have to iook
''PUTSAN Conductor No. e.
No c, which left Kansas City last night,
was due here at $50 .. m. There wss d.f-
fculty in starting ont No. az directed in
the dispatch, aud il tzss decided to meet the
tFain a. the depot. Officers Casey, Ryan,
Murphy, Rowan, Walsh, Streaming, Dol
new. Barrett and Keenan,, in uniform, and
Smith, Terry. AmsEein, o. Brien and Laugh
liz, in citizens clothes under the command
Of Lieutenant Lough, made up the squad
which arrived at ths depot ten
minutes before the train was
due, The train being delayed, as was
subse Queuily learned, by Intellectual efforts
| 10 capture the lunatic, tbs police we're
forced to wait more than an hour. After con-
siderable anxious speculation as to the con-
\ di.ion Of things cn board No. 6, the officers
kveIe finally any thing but reassured by dis
patch from a suburban station that the ma
njas wss well armed ard would resist desPer-
atsly. a little later No. appeared IL sight,
! and the police. separating so as TO form two
squads. awaited ber arrival on either side of
| the tracks. as the train approached the
whistle sounded NUMBER at warning notes
in Quick succession. People hanging half
way out the car windows were seen gesticu.
lating wildly to the crowd. Before the train
had cone TO q standstill a dozsn passengers
had jumped to the ground and fed, looking
back with blBnched faces. Officer Barrett
was the first tOrObserYs the lunatic Barrett
was standing near the rear end of the smok.
ing car. The madman. With leveled revolver,
glsHed at him from the front platform OF the
chair car the length OF one car distant. Bar
ratt EzzDed hall round and stopped instantlg,
but too late; a ball from the lunstic's revoi
yer struck him in the side, and In five
minutes be wss dead. One look at the
msDiac was enough 70 satisfy anyone that
while his ammunition lasted he would no.
be taken alive. Seeing this, the officers, after
removing their wounded comrade, began
fDsilade through the windows Of the smok-
Ing car, where the madman had taken refuge.
Aftera minute or two. he plunged out onto the
platform, fred cOUD pie OF shots into the
crowd lsspsd from Ihe train, and dashed
down Fourth svenue. Officer Laughlin
started in hot pursuit, aud 81 MIN the luna
tic fred the last shot in his weapon, but
without effect. Fac maniac stopped then,
and awaited Laughlins coming. with gleam-
ing eyes and frothipg mouth. They clinched.
the oficer tripped bls DTioner. and they both
fell the madman mean while beating Laugh
lip unueTcif ullv on the head with his re.
volver. The cfficsr wss IN citizens clothes,
and was set upou and terribly pounded 0y
an excited colored man. who mistook the Of
{ ficer for the prisoner The rest of the squad
arrived lhortly, the maniac was secured,
taken f.st to cell and then TO the hospital
70 have his wounds dressed. When he rsa-
lized that further resistance was useless the
prisoner grew calm and said quite nationally,
, that his nEme was Loais Reaume that he
was thirty three years Old, and was
IN route to his home in Detroit from Dsn
yer. The train men Of No. tell thrilling
story OF the trip from Kansas City When
the man boarded the train at that place hs
remarked that people were after him TO
lynch him, and that IL left alone be would
molest no one. At El Psso, Ill, he became
violent, and With revolver in hand ordered
IN the make up Of the train The passel-
gers all left the chair car, which the mad man
made bis headquarters, and we're locked into
the others No one dared approach the
lunstic, and, after he had exchanged several
shots with the City Marshal be ordered the
train TO proceed, end from there to Chicago
his win Wss the only law obsysd.
Eince his wounCs have been dressed,
ReaHme has become someahat more CON-
municative. He says he is q French-Csns-
dian ~ birth. and a fresco painter by trade,
ard Las 3 wife and three children in De-
troit. He wore q white sombreo. and SIS he
ran down Fourth avenue, was thought by
the residents TO be q CIV boy on q spree. As
the train on which he. arrived
@Ss ost.k,,s PASSING sas ,9~ly c.t through ths
By the name OF soruck jumped aboard the
platform where ths maniac stood. Reaume
immeoistely bIszej away with his revolver
the ball just grazing Soruck's neck, taxing
button Of his coat When the train
reached the DEPOT the maniac loaded as fast
as bis Weapon was smptied, and altogether
more than hlleen shots were fred. Epruck
ran away
II Kansas CRY, No. Nay 31-The maniac
Passenger Who created q sensation at the Wa.
/ bash Depot. AZ CEicsgo. to-day, attracted
n some attention here yesterday on account of
his evident balluciDsfiOn. he came over the
Union Pacific yesterday from Denver giving
Ibis name ss Louis Reaume, and aaids b was
Doing 10 Detroit. He stated to the train men
1at be had beer driven out OF Denver on
,count CT some crime. of which he was in-
1cent, and that he wss being pursued; and
his request be vas permitted to ride in the
sggsge-car as being a sAfer place. He was
med with q revolver. and upon his arriv-
Z here the police, who had been notified
y telegraph, at first proposed to arrest him,
4 as the man gave no evidence of insauis ~
ley decided to permit him to continue his
ufney, which he did last night.
Not at All Disappointed.
KEoKrK, Iowa, May 2S After Mr.. Will