Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-01
A MaDMiN CAPTUREs 4 TRAIN.
The Havoc That Was Caused On Western
Itoad-One OGlcer Killed Others In
iured-Ihe Iunatic Hurt.

The Havoc That Was Caused On Western
Road-One omcer Killed Others In
Jured-Ihe Lunatic Hurt.
Passenger train No. q, Oh the Wabash, ST.
Louis & Pacific railroad, arrived i'll Chicago,
on Sunday, an hour and half late, in charge
of madman. Out of tho twelve or fifteen
mcn--oficers aud citizens-who finally Sc
cured him, one officer is dead, shot through
the body another probably fatally wounded,
several citizens arc injured and the lunatic
himself, lies in the hospital mortally hurt,
with three bullets in his body.
Shortly before noon at the Wabash, ST
Louis Pacific depot, dispatch was received
from Chcnoa, Ill, from Conductor Putnam,
saying he had AN insane man on his train,
who had possession of ono car, and that the
police at Kansas City, ,Jacksonvilloan and Peoria
were all afraid to take him, and asking ten or
twelve policemen TO arrest him when they
arrived in Chicago. Nine officers in uniform
and five in citizens clothes, under the COM
mand of Lieutenant I.aughlin, made up the
squad. Tho train was delayed, aS was sub
ScQuently learned, by Intellectual attempts to
capture tho lunatic. After considerable anN-
iOus speculation as to the conditions OF things
OH board No. u, the officers were finally any
thing but rcassured ny a dispatch from Il
suburban station, warning them that the ma
MAC was armed and would resist desperately.
A little later "No. q" appeared in sight
and the police separating 50 as To form two
squads awaited its arrival on either side of
the track. People hanging half way out Of
the car windows were seen To gcStiCulato
wildly to the crowd. Before tho train had
| come 10 a standstil dozen passengers had
jumped to the ground and fled, looking back
| ward with blanched faces. Oihcer Barrett,
who was the first To observe the 1unatlc, was
standing near the rear end of the smoking
| car. The mailman with lcyeled revolver
| glared at him from the front platform
| of the chair car one car length distant. Bar
rett turned half round and stopped instantly,
but he was too late. A ball from the lunatic =
| revolver struck him in the side and in five
minutes he was dead One look at tie
maniac was enough to satisfy any one that
while his ammunition lasted he would not be
| taken alive.
| The officers, after removing Barrett, began
| a fuslade through the windows of the smok-
| ing car, whore the madman had taken re-
| fuge. After minute or two he plunged out
| on to the platform, fired a couple OF shots
| into the crowd, leaped from tho train and
| dashed down Fourth avenue Officer Laugh
| lin started in pursuit and the lunatic fired at
| him the last shot in his weapon, but without
effect The maniac then stopped and awaited
| Laughlins coming with cleaning eyes and
| frothing mouth They clinched, the officer
tripped his prisoner and both fell, the
| madman meanwhile beating Laughlin
numerically on the head with his revolver.
| The officer was in citizens clothes and was
set upon and terribly poundeu py an eNclteu
| colored man, who mistook him for the
| prisoner. The rest of the squad arrived
shortly and the maniac was secured. When
| he realized that further resistance was useless
| he grew calm and said, quite nationally that
| his name was Louis Reaume that he was
thirty-three years old and was en- route to this
home in Detroit from Denver.
The trainmen tell thrilling story OF the
| trip from Kansas City. When 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. Al
| El Paso, Ill, he became violent and with
| revolver in hand ordered the train men to
| cease making some changes i'm the makeup
of the train. The passengers all left the chair
| car, which the madman made his quarters,
| and were locked into the others No one
dared approach the lunatic and after he had
| exchanged several shots with the city mar.
shal he ordered tho train to proceed and
from there to Chicago his will was the only
| law obeyed.