The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-02
A LBNATIC ON WHEELS
lie Runs IA Train from Kansas
City to Chicago.
BABhy SCARED PASSENGERS
FBs Naanan Finally stopped by a
Bnlget-A Terrible and ENcit-
ing Affair
Hew a Maaman Ean a rraIn.

e7osoo, May 3l-PaSsenger tram
mo. s. on the Wabash, st. Louis &
Pasife railroad. arrived here to-day an
hear aud q half late. in charge of a
nAa6snaH. Out of twelve or fifteen men,
oaseers sid citizens, who finally secured
kisa, sAe officer is dead, shot through
no eSdy. another probably fatally
wSsnded, several citizens injured. and
tAe IuBatic himself lies in the county
kssxital IuortsIIv wounded with three
Az4Iets in him. Shortly before noon to-
day a station policeman at the Wabash.
D. Louis e. Pacific depot, on Polk
stPest, received the following dispatch
GHrMsA, Illinois, May 81.
| have an insane man on my tram.
VIE has possession of one car. The
RDsiOe 1t Kansas City, Jacksonville and
Peoria we're all afraid to take him.
F3ease send ten or twelve policemen out
en- No. to take him when we arrive in
8hisagO. They had better come in citi-
zeBs' clothes. They will have to look
sAaFp, "a some one will get hurt.
tSdgned.l PUTNAM,
Conductor, No. 6.
he. s, which left Kansas City last
Aaghk, was due here at 30 pm. There
wes difficulty in starting out No. as
erected in the dispatch, and it was de-
eided to meet the train at the depot.
Hgbt uniformed policemen and four in
eitszsns' clothes, under command of
Lieatenant Laugh, made up the squad,
whioh arrived at the depot ten minutes
bsfore the train was due, the train be-
nag delayed, as was subsequently
leaIRed, by Intellectual efforts to cap
tzTe the lgnatic The police were
forced to wait more than an hour.
After considerable anxious speculations
as ~ the condition of things on board
Ne g." the officers were finally any
hkiag but treasured by dispatch from
gsaburb station warning them that the
maniac was well armed and would re-
sat desperately. A little later NO. g.
appeared in sight and the police separat-
las 50 as to form two squads awaited
her arrival on either side the track As
tee train approached the whistle sounded
a RuAaber of warming notes in quick
saceessi0n. People hanging half way
0Et the car windows were seen to geS-
tsziate wildly To the crowd. Before the
train had come to a standstill a dozen
passengers jumped to the ground and
ned looking back with blanched faces.
Cf6ceT Barrett was the first to observe
the fanatic. Barrett was standing near
the rear end of the smoking car; the
nRdman with q Ieveled revolver glared
at hlEa from the front platform of the
eeair car. the length of one car distant.
Barrett turned half round and stopped
INSTANTLY. but toe late; ball from the
lasaic's revolver struck him in the
SIDE and IN five minutes he was dead. |
enc l00k at the maniac was enough to
satisfy any one that while his ammuni- |
sOEa lasted he would not be taken alive. |
Seeing this, the officers. after removing |
tAeiF wounded cOmrade, began fusil |
lade through the windows of the smok-
ing ear where the mailman had taken |
refuge After minute or two he |
plunged out on to the platform, |
ared couple of shots into
The crowd, leaped from the train and |
dashed down Fourth Avenue. Officer |
LAugialin started in hot pursuit. and at |
him the iuRatic fired the last shot i'll
his weapon, but without effect. The |
maniac stopped then and awaited |
IsaHghlin's coming, with cleaning ewes
Aa4 frothing mouth. They cllnched,
me Otheer tripped his prisoner and they
both fell. the nadman beating Laughlin
1ulR0ToifHlly on the head with his re-
veiveT. The officer was in citizens
siotAes and was set upon and terribly |
pounded by an excited colored man |
who migtook the officer for the prisoner.
The rest of the squad arrived shortly, |
and the maniac was secured, and taken |
6Tst to . cell, and then TO the hospital !
10 have his wounds dressed. When he |
roali7ed that further resistance was use
less. the prisoner grew calm and said
quite nationally that his name was |
L0Ris ReaRme, that he was 80 years old,
md was eRroute to his home in Detroit
frOR Denver. The train men of 'No
60 tell thrilling story of the
xipS from Kansas City. When the
nam bearded the = train at that
place he renarked that people were
sfter him To- lynch him, and that if left
done he would modest no one. At
HpasS, Illinois, he became violent, and
Eith e revolver in hand ordered the
rain Men to cease making some changes
n she makeup Of the train. The pas
,engers all left the chair car which the
mailman made his headquarters and
Kere locked into the others. No one
aaned approach the lunatic, and after
he had exchanged several shots with !
he city marshal he ordered the train
o prcoeed, and from there to Chicago
ais, will was the only law obeyed.
Since his wounds have been dressed,
ReaUme has become somewhat non
communicative. He says he is a French
lansdian.by birth, and fresco painter
3y trade, and has wife and three
children in Detroit. He wore white |
,0Enbrero, and as he ran down Fourth .
avenue he was thought by residents to |
be a ceVb0y on q spree. As the train |
IN which he arrived vas passing slowly |
through the outskirts of the city, man /
by the name of Spruck jumped aboard |
The platform where the maniac stood.
He Immediately blazed away with his |
revolver, the bail just grazing Spruck's
1aain and taking button from his ceat.
sprnck slipped off and waited for |
sno&her train. In the fight at the depot |
he maniac reloaded as fast as his wea
pom was empty, and altogether more /
han 15e shots were fired.
Kansas CRY. Nay 31--The maniac |
PASSENGER who creed s sIassss5Talii0n at /
he Wabash depot in Chicago to-day, /
attracted come attention here yesterday I
on acc0unt OF his evident halluciuation. |
BE seHae over the Union Pacific yester |
DAY from Denver, giving his name us
L0Bis Rsa1me, and said he was going !
70 Betroit. He stated to the train men |
that he had been driven out OF Denver
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