Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-04
CALIFORNIA And COAST.
The Freak Of a Crazy Man On an Ore
SOn Railroad Train.
AN INDIAN STABBED AT CARSON.
Al. Farrow, the Ruled.Of Race
Horse, Reinstated-End of
Famous Mine Suit.
AN INDIAN STABBED AT CARSON
SPECIAL DGsPArcEEs TO TIE sEoozD-USloH. j
QUEER CoNpuCToR.
A Maniac Captures an Oregon Train
His Crazy Actions.

"A maniac captures an oregon lIdln-
His Crazy Actions.
PESpLEToN (Or.), December Sd.-The Portland
train which arrived here this morning was in
charge of a queer coz rductor. He boarded the
train at Portland, and until Pendleton was
reached his sway was supreme and undisputed.
lie had long navy revolver cooked and ready
for action in one hand and bowie-knife in the
other.
AS the train left the depot at Portland he said
to conductor Dunn: 81 am not here for cure,
but for preventive. "
When asked for an explanation of the strange
statement he said: u don't believe in this
double-doctor business" And then commenced
e long harangue in which the physicians and
insane asylums figured.
1t then became evident that the man was
crazy, and might shoot on the least provocation.
i was then thought best to humor him, and
having things his own way, he exhibited no
particular dangerous freaks until some distance
from Portland, when he became imbued with
The hallucination that he was in charge of the
train, and that great vigilance was necessary
1)r the safely of the passengers.
The experience of one of the brakeman,
George II. Wensley. will never be forgotten by
him 10 his dying hour To him the maniac
seemed to have taken an especial dislike and
paraded him through the cars at the point of
his pistol. Wensley wore pin which the in
sane man said was the symbol OF secret order
which seemed to add to his disrust.
He would say, You are guilty" pointing the
pistol at the brakeman's heart and threatening
instant death if he stirred an inch, and on two
occasions took his photograph with a camera
which he ca Tied for what purpose his crazy
brain alone was aware.
At Cmatilla the conductor telegraphed to
Pendleton the news that a crszg many armed
with pistols and bowie-knlfe had take the
train and asked for officers to be On hand to
arrest him.
When the train stopped Sheriff Houser and
Constable Taylor met ii. The maniac was on
the platform, his pistol pointed at brakeman
Wensley.
Taylor advanced cautiously, aouser and
others following and caught the man by the
arm. At this signal he was seized and over
powered, not, however, before he pulled the
trigger OF his pistol. The hammer descended on
the hand which grabbed the weapon, which was
thus prevented from exploding.
He was then handcuff-d. jailed and searched,
resulting in the discovery OF q pocket pistol, be-
tides the revolver and bowie-knife on his
He became quiet enough after he was un-
armed and talked nationally while being
Searched.
Little is known about him. He is a tall,
handsome man, with a splendid physique, dark
eyes, dark mustache and pale complexion.
He was strikingly dressed, wearing long
and rakish looking hat He seems 10 be from
Yakima and has a frst-class ticket from Port
land to New York That he is not an escaped
lunatic is evident, and he does not appear 70 be
suffering from the effects of excessive drinking.
If any one has lost q maniac OF this descrip-
ton let him apply to PendletOn and he viii be
cheerfully returned He gives his name as
James McCireen Arnold and says he has gone
intO the cowboy bQsi.teSS