Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-01
WHEELING, W. va. MONDAY MORNING. JUNE l. 1885.
TERRIBLE FIGHT WITH A LUNATIc-

lEhhlbLE FIdni Will ~ hONhi'S
| In which an Ofhcer Is Killed, Several
Wounded and the Mad Man Shot Three
Times.
CHICAGO, May 3l.-Passenger train No.
6 on the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific
railroad arrived here to-day an hour and a
half late in charge of a mad man. Out Of
the twelve or fifteen men, officers aud eiti-
zens who finally secured him, one officer is
dead, shot through body another probably
fatally wounded, several citizens injured,
and the lunstic himself lies in the county
hospital mortally wounded, with three bul-
let's in him.
Shortly before noon to-day the station po-
licemen at the Wabash, St. Louis and
Pacific depot in Polk street received the
following dispatch:
CHENoA, ILLS, May 3l.-Ihave an insane
man on my train who has possession of one
car. The police at Kansas City, Jackson
vile and Peoria were all afraid to take him
Please send 10 or II policemen out on No.
| 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.
(Signed) PUTNAM,
Conductor No. 6.
No. 6, which left Kansas City last night,
was due here at ESQ p. m. There was
difficulty in starting out No as directed in
the dispatch, and it was decided to meet the
train at the depot. Officers Casey, Ryan,
Murphy, Rowan, Walsh, Streaming,
Dohney Barrett and Keenan, in
uniform, and Smith, Terry, Amstein,
O'Brien and Laughlin, in citizens clothes
under the command Of l.. 7. Laugh, made
up the squad which arrived at the depot
ten minutes before the train was due. The
train being delayed, as was subsequently
learned, by Intellectual efforts to capture
the lunatic the police were forced to wait
more than an hour.
The Mad Man Well Armed.
After considerable anxious speculation as
to the condition of things on board No. 6,
the officers were finally anything but reas
snred by dispatch from a suburban station
warning them that the maniac was well
armed and would resist.
A little latter "No. 6" appeared in sight
and the police separated so as to form two
SQUADS awaited her arrival on either side OF
the track. As the train approached the
whistle sounded q number of warning notes
in quick succession, and people hanging
LII g . ha pu,pInuyS uua
gestulicate wildly to the crowd. before the
train had come to stand still dozen
Passengers Jumped to the Ground and Fled
looking back with blanched faces. Officer
Barrett was the first to observe the lunatlc.
Barrett was standing near the rear end OF
the smoking car, the madman with leveled
revolver glared at him from the front plat
form Of the chair car, the length Of one
car distant Barrett turned halt
around and stopped instantly
bu. too late, ball from the lunatics reVol'
YER struck him in the side and in FIVE min
utes he was dead. One look at the maniac
was enough to satisfy any one that while
his ammunition lasted he would not be taken
alive, seeing this, the officers after remov-
ing their wounded comrade, began
A Fusilads
through the windows of the smoking car,
where the mad man had taken refuge.
After a minute or two he plunged out on
The platform, fred a couple of shots into
the crowd leaped from the train and dashed
down Fourthwavenue. Officer Laughlin
started in hot pursuit after him. The
luDatic fired the last shot in
his weapon out without effect. The maniac
stopped there and awaited Laughiins CON-
ing with cleaning eyes and frothing mouth.
They clinched, the officer tripped his pris
oner and they both fell, the madman mean
while beating Laughlin numerically on the
head with his revolver. The officer was in
citizens clothes, and was set upon and terri
bly, pounded by an excited colored man, who
misiook the officer for the prisoner. The
rest of the squad arrived shortly after the
maniac was
Secured
and taken first to cell and then tn the hos
pital 10 have his wounds dressed. When
he realized that further resistance was use
less, he grew calm and said
quite nationally that his name
was lJOulS 1ecduWC Nuot "oo bhIl
ty.three years old, and was en- route to his
home in Detroit from Denver The train
men OF No. 6 tell a
Thrilling
story ot the trip from Kansas City. When
lbe man boarded the train there
he remarked that people were after
him 70 lynch him. and if lefr
alone be would molest no one.
At FL Paso, Illinois, be became violent, and
With revolver in hand ordered the train.
men TO cease making some changes in the
makeup OF the train. The passengers all
hen left the chair car, which the mad man
made his headquarters and were locked into
he others. No one dared approach the
luuatic, ard after he had exchanged sew
eral shots with the city marshal, he ordered
he train to proceed, and from there to Chi
cago, his will was the only law obeyed.