The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1885-06-03
Il Fearful Ride.

A LuNArIo CAPTURED CHICAGO TRAIN
KihLnD AN OFFICER AND Is HIMSELF SHOT
Passenger train No 9 on Wabash, st.
Louis 4 Pacific railroad arrive In Chicago,
Sunday, an hour and half late In charge
of n mailman, aud out of twelve or fifteen
men, officers and citxeus, who finally Sc
cured hun, oae officer Is dead, shot through
the body, and another Is probably fatally
wounded aud several citizens wefe injured,
The lunatlc himself lies In the county hos
pital mortally wounded with three bullets
in his body. Shortly before coon Sunday
the station policeman al thu Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific depo ON Polk street re-
ceived the following despatch
CuENo, III. May 3lst.
have an insane my train who has posses
soa OF one car. The police at Kansas CITY, Jack
Please send ten twelve policemen to take hun
when arrive IN Chicago; They had better come
IN cit zens clc hes and they Will have to look sharp
some viii get hurt
(sgnetO PUTNAM, Conductor No,
Nine officers in uniform and five In cti-
zens' clothes, under command OF Lieut..
Tough, made up the squad which arrived at
the depot ten minutes before the train was
due, the train being delayed, as was subse-
quently learned, by the Intellectual efforts to
secure the lunatic, and the police were
forced to wait more than an hour. As the
train approached, the waistle sounded Il
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
standstill, a dozen passengers jumped to
the ground and hed, looking back with
blancbed faces. Officer Barrett was the
first to observe the lunatic, who, with IA
leyellei revolver, glared a, him from the
from the front platform of the chair car.
Barrett turned half round and stopped in
stantly, but too late. ball frJm the lu-
natic's revolver struck him in the side, and
in five minutes he was dead.
e;sse ieak Z. he ;iaaisc .-ss c;ssSh &c
satisfy anyone that while ammunition last.
ed he would not be taken alive, and the Of
ncers after removing their wounded COM
rade began firing fusilade through the
windows of the smoking car, where the
mailman had taken refuge. After minute
or two he plunged out on to the platform,
fired couple of shots into tn crowd, then
leaped from the train and dashed down
Fourth Avenue, with officer Lou9h in hot
pursuit. Inc luuAtlC Hreu tne laSJ SnOC Ill
his weapon at the officer, but without eff
feet, and then awaited Loughr coming
with cleaning eyes and frothing mouth.
They cinched and both fell, the madman
meanwhile beating Tough numerically on
the head with his revolver. The officer
was in citizens clothes and was set upon
aud terribly pounded by an excited colored
man, who mistook him for the prisoner.
The rest of the squad arrived shortly af.
ter the maniac was overpowered and TAX
first to a cell and then to 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 Reume; that he was 80 years old,
and was EN- route to his home liz Detroit,
from Denver.
The train men of No. 6 tell a thrilling
story of the trip from Kansas City, where
he boarded the train, remarking that peo-
pie were after him to lynch him, and If
left alone he would modest no one. AT FL
Paso, H., he became violent, and with re-
volver in hand, ordered the train men to
cease making some changes in the making
up of the train, where the passengers all
lett the chair car, which the mad man
made his headquarters, and were loo led
into others. No one dared approach the
lunatic, and after h, had exchanged sever
al shots with the City Marshal, he ordered
the train to proceed, and from there to
Chicago, his will was the only law obeyed.