The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-01
THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
A Madman Takes Charge of a Train
on Western Railroad.
One Officer Killed and Another Fatally
Wounded Before He Is Captured.

CHICAGO, May 31.-Passenger train No. 6
on the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific railroad
arrived here to-day an hour and half late in
charge of madman, and out of IL or 10 men,
officers and citizens, who finally secured him,
one officer is dead, shot through the body, and
another is probably fatally wounded, and
several citizens were injured. The lunatic
himself lies in the county hospital mortally
wounded with three bullets in his body. Short
ly before noon to-day the station policeman at
the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific depot on
Polk street received the following dispatch
CHENo, Ill, May 81.
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
MN. Please send 10 or IL policemen to take him
VIII IN we arrive in Chicago. They had better come
in citizens clothes and they will have to look sharp
Or some one will get hurt
(oigned) PUTNAM, Conductor No. 6.
Nine officers in uniform and five in citizens
clothes, under command of Lieut.. Lough,
made up the squad which arrived at the depot
ten minutes before the train was due, the
train being delayed, as was subsequently, learn
ed, by the Intellectual efforts to secure the lu-
natic, and the police were forced to wait more
than an hour. AS the train approached, the
whistle sounded number Of warning notes,
and people hanging half way out of the car
windows were seen to gesticulate wildly to the
crowd. Before the train had come to a stand
still, dozen passengers jumped to the ground
and fled, looking back with blanched faces
Officer Barrett was the first to observe the lu-
natic, who, with leveled revolver glared at
him from the front platform of the chair car.
Barrett turned half round and stopped instant
ly, but too late. A ball from the lunatic's re-
volver struck him in the side, and in five min
utes he was dead.
One look at the maniac was enough
to satisfy anyone that while his ammunition
lasted he would not be taken alive
and the officers after removing
THAR W0undQ do rin
through the windows of the smoking car,
where the mailman had taken refuge,
After a minute or two he plunged
out on to the platform, fred a couple of shots
into the crowd, then leaped from the train and
dashed down Fourth avenue, with Officer
Lough 10 hot pursuit. The lunatic fred the
last shot in his weapon at the officer, but with
out effect, and then awaited Lough's coming
with cleaning eyes and frothing mouth. They
clinched and both fell, the mailman mean
while beating Lough 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 mstook him
for the prisoner.
The rest of the squad arriving shortly after
the maniac was overpowered and taken first to
cell and then to the hospital to have his
wounds dressed.
When he realized that further resistance
was useless the prisoner grew calm and said
quite nationally that his name was LOUIS
NOUNS, !nat no was % YEARS olu ana Waa en-
route to his home in Detroit from Denver.
The train men of No. tell thrilling story of
the trip from Kantas City, where he boarded
the train, remarking that people were after
him TO lynch him, and if left alone he would
nolest no one. At El Passo, H., he became
violent and with revolver in hand ordered the
tralnmen to cease making some changes in the
make up Uf train, when the passengers all left
the chair car which the madman made his
headquarters and were locked into others, No
one dared to approach the lunatic, and after
he had exchanged several shots with the city
marshal he ordered the tram to proceed and
from there to Chicago his viii was the only
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