Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-06-01
FIGHT WITH A BAD MAN.
A Maniac Creates Pandemonirm on a
Passenger Train Between Kansas
City and Chicago.
he is Taken After Bmptying His Re-
volver, Killing One Officer and
Badly Wounding Another.

CHICAGO, ILL, May 31.-Passenger
train No. on the Wabash, st. Louis
Il Pacific railway arrived here to.day,
one hour and half late, in charge of
q mad man. Out Of the twelve or fiji
teen men, officers and citizens, who
finally secured him, one officer Is dead,
shot through the body, another Is prob
ably fatally wounded, several citizens
are injured, and the lunatic himself
lies in the county's hospital mortally
wounded with three bullets in him.
Shortly before noon to-day the sta
ton policeman at the,Wabssh depot,
on Polk street, received the following
dispatch:
"CHENoA, ILL, May 81, 1885.
VI 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 send ten or twelve policemen
out on No. to take him when we
arrive in Chicago. They had
better come in citizen clothes. They
VIII have to look sharp or some one
will get hurt. "PUTNAM,
Conductor No. 6.n
No. left Kansas City last night. 1t
was due here at $50 p. m. There was
difficulty in starting out No. l, as di-
rected in the dispatch, and
1t was decided to meet
the train at the depot.
Officers Casey, Ryan, Murphy, Ro wan,
Walsh, Fremming, Dohney, Barrett
and Keenan, in uniform, and smith,
Terry, Amstein, O'Brien and Laugh
lin in citizens clothes, under the COM
mand OF Lieut.. Tough, made up the
squad which arrived at the depot ten
minutes before the train was due. The
train being delayed as was subse-
quentlp learned by Intellectual efforts
10 capture the lunatic the police were
forced to wait more than an hour.
After considerable anxious speculation
as to the condition of things on board
No. 6, the officers were finally any.
thing but treasured by dispatch
from suburban station warning them
that the maniac was well armed
and would resist desperately. A little
later No. appeared in sight and the
police separating, so as TO form two
squads, awaited her arrival on either
side Of the racks, as the whistle sound
ed number of warning notes
in quick succession. People
hanging half way out of the car win
dows were seen gesticulating wildly
to the crowd. Before the train had
come to standstill dozen passengers
jumped to the ground and fled, look
ing 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
wi
glared at him from the front platform
OF the chair car the length of one car
distant. Barrett turned half around
and stopped instantly, but too late. A
ball from the lunatic's revolver struck
him, aud in five minutes he was dead.
One look at the maniac was
enough to satisfy one that while
his ammunition lasted he would
not be taken alive. Seeing this the
officers after removing Barrett began
iusilade through the windows of the
smoking car where the mad man had
taken refuge. After minute or two
he plunged out into the platform, fired
couple of shots into the crowd ,leaped
from the train and dashed down
Fourth avenue. Officer Laughlin
started In hot pursuit and at him the
lunatic fired the lsst shot in his
weapon but without effect. The naa-
nice stopped then andlawaited Laugh
Inns coming with cleaning ewes
and frothing mouth. They clinched.
The officer tripped his prisoner and
they both fell, the mailman meau-
while beating Laughlin numerically
on the head with his revolver. The
officer was in citizens clothes and was
set upon and terribly pounded
by an excited colored man,
who mistook the oflicer
for the prisoner. The rest of the souad
arrived shortly. The maniac was Sc
cured, taken first to cell and then to
4 hospital to dress his wounds
When he realized that further resist
ance was useless the prisoner grew
calm and said very nationally that his
name was Louis Reaume; that he was
thirty-three years old, and was en-
route to his home in Detroit from Dem
yer.
The train men ofNo. 6 tell start
ing story of the trip from Kansas
CITY When the man boarded the
tram at that place he remarked that
people were after him to lynch him,
and II left alone he would molest no
one. AT Eel Paso, Ill.,, he became yio-
lent, and, with revolver in
his hand, ordered the train men
to cease making some changes
In making up the train. The pas
sengers all left the chair car which
the mad man made his Headquarters
and were locked into the others. No
one dared approach the lunatic, and
after he had exchanged several shots
with the city marshal he ordered the
train to proceed and from there to
obeyed, -"