The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-06-04
A GRAVY Man

whose crazy freaks created such a sensa-
ton in Chicago last night left Denver on
Friday evening for Detroit, Michigan, to
visit his mother, Mrs. Geo. W. 1homp-
son. Louis has lived here for some
years. a year and half ago he mar
ried Miss Lizzie Rockford, since which
time he had lived in an apparently happy
state with her. Last Christmas they
went on visit to his people In Michi-
gan and returned to Denver only three
weeks ago. Since that time they have
lived with his brother in law, Charles E.
Rockford, at 272 GIenarm street. A re-
porter was first to break the news to
Mrs. Reaume last night of her
husbands wild ride and It's tragic end.
Reaume bore COED reputation, he sell
dom drank liquor aud was dutiful to his
family.
KANSAS CITY WHISKY.
CHICAGO, June 1.-Louls Reaume the
Iunatic who terroriZed a train full of
passengers from Kansas City to Chicago,
and battled with the police on his arri-
val here, was this morning resting easy
at the hospital. The doctors entertain
9 more favorable view OF his case than
at first. They say he Will recover. o.
Hazelton, now on his way to James.
town, New York, stated before leaving
Chicago that when the train was board
ed at Kansas City by Resume, the latter
had bottle of whisky in his hand, and
in Hazciton's opinion Reaume is not q
particle crazy, except such a dementiS
as Kansas City wbisky may have pro-
duced.
THE DETAILS.
CHICAGO, June Passenger train
No. 6 on the Wabash, st. LOUIS and Pa
clfic railroad arrived here yesterday an
hour and half late, in charge of a mad
man. Out of the twelve or fifteen men
Officers and citiZens-who finally Sc
cured him, one officer is dead-shot
through tina body; another is probably
fatally wounded, and several citizens in
jured. The lunatic himself lies in the
county hospital MORALLY wounded, with
three bullets in him.
Shortly before noon yesterday the
station policeman at the Wabash depot
on Polk street received the following
dispatch:
CHENOA, Ill have an insane man
on my train who has possession OF one
car, The police of Kansas City, Jack
sonVille and Peoria were all afraid to
take him. Please send ten or twelve
policemen out on No. l to 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.
FIFTEEN OFFICERS ON HAND.
There was difficulty in starting ouI
No. as directed in the dispatch, and il
was decided to meet the train at the depot
The train being delayed as
was subsequently learned by
Intellectual efforts 10 capture
the Iunatic, the police were forced to
wait an hour. The officers were finally
anything but treasured by d
dispatch from suburban station
warning them that the maniac
was we'll armed and would resist
desperately. A little later No. 6 ap-
peared in sight with people hanging
half way out OF the car windows gesti'
culating wildly TO the crowds. Before
the train came to standstill dozen
paf seDgers jumped TO the ground and
fed, looking back with blanChed faces
Officer Barrett was the first to observe
the lunstIc. The mailman, with leVeled
revolver, glared al him from the front
platform of the char car, the length OF
one car distant. Barrett turned hall
round and stopped instantly, but TOO
late, q ball from the lunatIc'S revolver
struck him In the side and in five min-
utes he was dead. One look ut the
maniac was enough TO satisfy one that
while his ammunition lasted he would
not be taken alive Seeing tins the Off.
GERS, after removing their wounded
comrade, began a fusilade through the
windows of the smoking Car, where the
mailman mad taken refuge. After min
ute or two he plunged out onto the
platform, fired couple of shots into the
crowd, leaped from the train and dashed
down Fourth avenue. Officer Lau 2hlIn
starter in hot pursuit aud At him the
lunatic fired the last shot III his weapon
but without effect.
The maniac stopped and thea awaited
Laughlin's coming with cleaning eyes
and frothing mouth They clinched, the
both fell, the madman meanwhile beat
ing Laughlin numerically ON the heaC
with his revolver. The officer was IL
| citizens clothes and was set upon anC
terribly pounded by an excited coloret
man who mIstOok the officer for tn
| prisoner. The rest "a the sqqad arrived
| shortly; the maniac was secured, t4kel
| first to cell and then To- hospital 4
have his wounds drt Ssed. When b
| realized that further resistance was use
less the prisoner grew calm and SAT-
quite nationally that his name WAS LOui
Reume that he was SO years old, ant
| was en- route to his home in Detrol
from Denver.
The traiEmen of NJ. 6 tell thrlllin
story of the trip from Kansas City
When the man boarded the tram at tina
place he remarked that people were afte
him to lynch him, and that If left alon
he would modest no one. At Ell PasC
| Illinois, he became violent, and with
revolver in each hand ordered the trsir
men to cease making some changes i
the makeup of the train
The passengers all left the chair ca
which the mailman made his headqual
tiers, and were locked into the other
| No one dared approach the lunatic, an
after he had exchanged several sho
with the city marshal he ordered Ii
train to proceed, and from there to Oh
cage his Will was the only law he ODE!
ed.
In the fight at the depot the mani'
reloaded as fast as his weapon WI
emptied, and altogether more than Il
shots were fired.