The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-03
A LUNATIC~S CAREER.
He Runs "A Train, Using His Pistol with
Deadly Effect.


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CHICAGO, May 31.-Passenger train No. 6,
on the Wabash, st. Louis Pacific railroad
arrived here to-layan hour and a hall late
in charge Of a mailman. Gu Of twelve or
fifteen men, officers and citizens who finally
secured him, one officer is dead, shot
throuh the bod; another probably fatally
wounded; several citizens injured and the
lunatic lies in the county hospital MORALLY
wounded with three bullets in him. Shortly
before noon the station policemen at the
Wabash, st. Louis e Pacific depot,
on Polk street, received the following dis
patch:
CHfMsA. III May 81 - have an insane man on
my train who has p session o en- car. The po-
lice at Kan sas { ty, Jack olvi 10 and Peoria were
policemen out on No. 10 10 take him when we ar
rive in Chic ago. They had better Come / =: citi-
zen's clotht s nr they will gel hurt.
PUTNAM, Conductor Of Nc. 6.
STARTING IN PURSUIT.
Number 6, which left Kansas City last
night, was due here at 2:5o p. m. There
was some difficulty in starting out number
10, as directed in the dispatch, and it was
decided to meet the train at the depot.
Eight uniformed policemen and four in citi-
zens' clothes, under the command Of Lieu
tenant L.aughlin, made up the crew, which
arrived at the depot twenty minutes before
the train was due, it being delayed as sub
sequently learned by Intellectual attempts
to capture the %lnnatic. The police were
forced to Wait more than an hour.
After considerable anxious speculation as
to the condition OF things OF board ofnum-
Der 6, the officers were anything but reas-
sured by Il dispatch from Il supurb station
warning them that the man was well armed
and would resist desperately. a little later
number & appeared in sight and the po-
licemen, separating so AS to form two
squads, awaited her arrival on either
side of the train. As the train approached
the whistle sounded a number OF warning
notes in quick succession. People hang
ing half way out of the windows were seen
to gesticulate wildly to the crowd. Before
the train had come to a staislstill q: dozen
passengers Jumped to the ground and fled,
looking back with blanched faces. Officer
Barrett was the first to observe the lunatic
Barrett tool a position near the end door
of the smoking car. The mac man with II
leveled revolver, glared at him from the
front platform of the chair car. Barrett
turned half round and stopped. Instantly,
but too late, Il ball from the lunatic's
revolver struck him in the side and in
FlvE MINUTES HE WAS DEAD.
One look at the maniac was enough to
satisfy anyone that while his ammunition
lasted he would not he taken. Seeing this
fine officers. after removing the wounded
man. began a fusiladc through the windows
of the smoking car where the mailman had
taken refuge. After a minute Oh two lie
| leaned onto the platform, fired a couple on
shots into the crowd, leaped from the tram
and dashed down Fourth avenue. Officer
Lauphlin started in hot pursuit and at INN
the Iunatic fired the last shot III his weapon,
hit without effect. The maniac stopped
there and awaited Laughllns ARRIVAL Win
CLEANING EYES AMI FRoTHiNG MOUTH.
They clinched, the officer tripped ms
prisoner and both fell, the inadinai 'tati.'
Lauehlin numerically on the head WIN ms
revolver. The officer was III citlzen )
clot nos and was set upon and terribly
wounded by an excited colpred man WIN"
rnn;stnnk the officer for the prisoner. Inc
cost If the squad arrived shortly ANA !he
maniac was secured and taken flrst TO lsl'i
and then to The hospital to nave ms Mou'''S
Iro.sad When he realized that further re-
.io+.nce was useless the prisoner grew cailfi
and said quite nationally that ms han,J
was Louis Bea,lIne; was 81 years ora, ",u
was en- route to his home IN i,e.fU'' TO-
Danvcr The trainmen OF No. . tell a urn
1;'m Glory OF the trip from Kansas ,ity.
1VH5on the man boarded the tram at Una,
Mace bc remarked that people were i'ter
PPi m,'e + -, lvnch him. that il left alone he
m',,,J modest no one. At Ell Pas", III.
HE BECAME VIOLENT,
and with revolver in hand he ordered t''e
conductor to cease making The
changes i'm the makeup OF the tIa.,'.
,,ssanoc,s left the chair car, winch the ''ls'-
p.Sa' made his headquarters, and were
inc,Iad into the Others. No one darea ap-
proaeh the lunatie, and tttf +. he eit h'1 marx aT-
changed several shots with 10 '1 nro u,ss and
f sl,,, II there to Chicago his will was the only
1so% ob 3eyss 70 Since Iis wounds naol nsSs nssn
c aatis He says he is q F re TRADE Sa anS has
by birth, a ireseo ,,, Ra,prefi living W in Detroit.
: ns S, Mo ,,'a a whit white sombrero, and as h he , ran
Down doe mo Fourth avenue was thought gu by Is r the
dents to be a cowboy on a rs 5pr was passing pa" ing
train on which The he eut s1Firs" OF It" the city :
slowly tnrou aama Of Spruck jumped aboard