Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-01
A FIGHT WITH A MANIAC.
ONE OFFICER KILLED AND AM
OTHER WILL DIE.


The Hadman MortaIIy wounded by
Three Bullets Several Citizens Badly
Hurt-A Train Fun OF People at the
Mans Mercy from Kansas City TO Chi
cagO.
CHICAGO, May 8l.-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 madman. Out
of twelve or fifteen men, officers and ciu-
zens, who finally secured him, one officer
IS dead, having been shot through the
body, and another is probably fatally in
jured, several citiz ems were badly hurt
and the lunatic himself lies in the county
hosnitaI, mortaily wounded, with three
bullets in his body.
shortly before noon to-day the station
poluenan at the Wabash, st. Louis and
he iia depot, on Polk street, received tue
following dispatch:
CHENoA, ILL., May 81, 1885.
have an Insane man on my tram, who has
possession of one car. The police at kansas
to take him. Please send ten or twelve po-
lioemen out on No. l to take him when we 4
arrive in Chicago. They had bctter come in I
citizens clothes. They VIII have to look
sharp, or some one will get hurt.
PUTNAM, Conductor No. 6.
THE OFFICERS IN READINESS.
No. 6, which left Kansas City last night
was due at $3.50 O'Clock this afternoons
There was difficulty In starting out No. /,
as directed in the dispatch, and 1t was
decided TO meet the train at the depot.
Eight oficers-Casey, Ryan, Murphy,
Rowan, Walsh, Strcning, Doheney, Bar
rett and keenan-were in uniform, and
Smith, Terry, ,Amsteiu, ,V Brien and Laugh
lin we're in citizens clothes, under COM
mand OF Lieut.. Laugh, made up tae squad
which arrived mt the depot. After con-
siderable anxious speculation as TO the
condition Of things on board No. 9, the .
officers were finally anything but re-
assured by dispatch from suburban .
station warning them that the maniac
was we'll armed and would resist desper-
ately.
ARRIVAL or THE TRAIN.
A little later No. appeared in sight,
and the police separating 80 as to form
two squads awaited her arrival on
either side of the track. AS the train ap-
preached the whistle sounded a humber
of warnings in quick succession. 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, a dozen passengers jumped to
the ground and fed, looking back with
blanched faces. Oillcer Barrett was the
first TO observe the lunatIc. Ohlcer Bar
rett was standing near the rear end of the
smoking car. The madman. with lev
eled revolver, glared at him from the front
platform Of the chair Car, the length OF
one car distant.
BARRETT SHOT DOWN.
Officer Barrett turned half round and
stopped instantly, but Was too late. A
ball from the lunatic's revolver struck
him in the side, and In five minutes he
Nga "a ma
enough TO satisfy any one that while bis
ammunition lasted he would not be taken
alive. Seeing thus, the officers, after re-
moving their wounded cOmrade, began a
fusilade through the windows Of the
smoking car where the madman had taken
refuge. Alter a minute or two he plunged
out on to the platform, fired a couple OF
shots into the crowd, leaped from the train
and dashed down Fourth avenue.
HAND TO HAND FIGHT.
Officer Laughlin started in hot pursuit.
At hIm the luDatic fired the last shot in
his weapon, but without effect. The
maniac stopped there and awaited Officer
Isaughlin's coming with cleaning eyes
and frOthing mouth. They clinched,
aud the officer tripped his prisoner and
they both fell, the madman meanwhile
beating Officer Laughlin numerically on
the head with his revolver. The officer
was Ia citizens clothes, and WAS set upon
aud terribly pounded by an excited coli
Ored man, VINO mistOOk the officer for 2.
prisoner. The rest OF the squad arrived
shortly and the maniac was secured,
taken first 10 "a cell and then % a hospital
TO have his wounds dressed.
When he realized that further resist
auce was useless, the prisoner grew calm
and said, quite nationally, that his name
was Louis Reaume, that he was 80 years
old, and en- route 10 his home in Detroit
from Denver.
THE STORY or THE TRAINMEN.
The traInmen OF No. o tell a thrilling
story Of the trip from Kansas City. When
The man boarded the train at tnat place
he remarked that people were after
him 10 lynch him, and II left
alone he would modest no one.
Az El PasO, ILL.,, he became violent,
and, revolver In hand, ordered The train
men 10 cease making some changes In ths
makeup OF the train. The passengers all
left the chair car, which the mailman
made his headquarters, and were locked
into others. No one dared approach the
lunatic, and after he had exchanged
several shots with the City Marshal he
ordered the train 10 proceed. and from
there TO Chicago his Will was the only law
obeyed.