Richland beacon., 1885-06-06
A MANIAC on A TRAIN.
Desperate Fight witha Mailman
ina Chicago Railroad Depot.

dav an hour and half laie, in charge
of a mailman.
/ Dat Of the twelve or fifteen men.
officers and citizens who finally Sc
cured him one officer, is dead. shot
through the body; another probably
fatally wounded. Several citizens
are injured, and the lunalic himself
hes in the country hospital mortallv
wounded, with three bullets in him.
J. Shortly before noon to-day the
station policeman at the Wabash. St.
louis and Pacific depot, on Polk
street. received the following dis
patch:
CHr.So, ILL.,, May 81, 1885.
| have an insane man on nv train
who has possession of one ear. The
police at Kansas City. Jack -onville
and Peoria were all afraid 10 take
him. Please send ten or twelve po-
hcemen 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 Y. 6.
No. 6, which lief, Kansas Citv las,
night, WAS due here at $50 y. IN.
There was difficulty in starting out
No. l, as directed in the dispatch, and
1t was decided to meet the train
at the depot.
Officers Casey. RYAN, Murphy
Rowan, Walsh, Streaming. Daeh.
ney, Barret, and Keenan,. in uniform:
and Smith, Terry, Amstcin, O'Brien
and Laughlin, in citizens clothes,
under the Lieut. Tough, made W.
the squad, which arrived at the depo;
ten minutes before the train was
due.
The train being DELAYED, ms was
subsequently, learned, by Intellectual
efforts to capture the lunatic, the DO
lice We're forced to wait more than
an hour.
After considerable anxiousp specn-
lation as To the condition of things on
board of NO.6 the officers were finally
anything but treasured 10y disdatch
from n SUBURBAN station warning
them that the maniac was well
and would resist desperately. /
A little later No 6 appeared. and
the police, separating so as to form
squads, awaited her arrival on either
side of the tracks.
As the train approached, the whis-
tie sounded a number Of warming
notes in succession. People hanging
halfway Gut Of the car windows
were seen Sesticulating wildly to the
crowd.
Before the train had come to
number of passengers
Jumped to the ground and fled, look
ng back with blanched faces.
Officer Barrett was the first to OBJ
serve the lunatic. Barrett was stand
ng near the rear end of the smOk-
nS car. The mad man, with level
'evolver. glared at him from the
ront platform of the car, the length
# one car distant Barrett turned
around but stopped instant
v. but too late, hall from the luna
les revolver struck him in the side
mi in five minutes he was dead.
One look at the maniac vas enough
o satisfy one that while his amuni-
ion lasted he would not be taken I
live. Seeing this, the officers after
their wounded comra1e. ,
,egan fusilade through the win
lows of the smoking ear where the
mailman had taken refuge
After moment Ortwo he plunged
nut of the car to the platform fired .
couple of shots into the crowd, !
eaped from The train, and dashed I
Town fourth avenue.
Officer Laughlin started in hot
pursuit and at him the lunatic fired /.
he last shot in his pistol, but with /
nut effect.
The maniac stopped then and
waited Laughlin's coming with
'leeminc eyes and frothy mouth
They clinched, the officer tripped his
prisoner and they both fell, the mad
nan meanwhile beating Laughlin !
lnmercifully on the head with his 4,
evolver.
The officer was in citizens clothes !
nd was set upon and terribly pound /
1 by an excited cOlored man, who t
listook the officer for the prisoner. .
The rest of the squad arrived :
hortly. The maniac was secured +
nd taken first to station, then to
he hospital to have his wounds