The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-24


One day he disappeared entirely and his host
has not seen him since.
ABOUT this time and after brief term in
jan, barrand conceived the brilliant idea
OF creating himself the financial represente-
tive OF the Brazilian government. Under
TINS alias he did some amusing things. One
or them was TO go to Philadelphia and
order lot of locomotives for railroad be
SAID the government was building in
brazil His technical knowledge of ma
chine construction and his familiarity with
the country through which the road was to
60 completely imposed upon the engine
builders. Barrand drew detailed plans of
the ten locomotives he wanted. These
were OF peculiar design, and the makers
We're surprised at the ability be displayed.
He furnished them with an elaborate de-
scrIption of the route, and they actually
started work upon one Of the engines The
master mechanic aud the expert designers
were completely taken in, as thew found
that he knew just as much about the subject
as they did. They discovered eventually
that he was not what he represented himself
to be.
HIS DEBUT AS TRAINswRECKER.
After his release from Auburn prison in
1856 he developed his mania for blowing up
trains. His first attempt in this line was
only two weeks after he got out of jail. 1t
was at Pittsburg that he put dynamite on
the track for the first time. He placed
several cartridges on the line, and then, for
some reason decided to prevent the wreck
he was trying to cause. He ran down the
line waving red flag and shouting to the
engineer OF the coming train. But he was
too late. The engine struck and exploded
the torpedo. Several people were seriously
injured by the crash, but no one was killed.
BRrrand, when he saw that the accident
was inevitable, sat down by the track and
watched. His face assumed an expression
OF wild delight, according to those who
found him there an hour after the explo-
sion. They describe him as grinning and
chuckling over his bloody work as il ne
thoroughly enjoyed it. OF course he was
arrested. He admitted ct once that he was
the author OF the damDable deed, but joked
about it and said he did it Just for fun"
The judge who sentenced him did not see
where the fun came III, and gave him six
years in DaHnemora prison. He behaved
so well that this was reduced by commuta-
ton to about five. Last spring he was lib
Grated.
There is one thing remarkably about
Barrand, and that is his wonderfully good
behavior in prison. He has no fear or hor-
ror of imprisonment, and when he has COM
mitted a crime he owns up to it In his
peculiar jocular manner, and then goes off
merrily to spend his term. He is said by
0N0EJ HhIOeH WHO ever Ddu QlUl III CUdTR6
to be a model prisoner. BY his good be-
havior he always gets his sentence oom-
muted. But as soon as he is free once more
the devil in him breaks loose.
He was here in New Y ork last May, and
among his effects found at Bethlehem on
his arrest last week was a document of a
unique description. 1t was marriage con-
tract signed A. Barrand, aud containing a
number OF curious conditions upon which
aOrQa0 a u
Barrand told the New Jersey police that
he had been in Europe since his release
from Dannemora last March. This is not
true, as he has left his tracks in New York,
which has been his headquarters ever since.
For some weeks he has been staying in a
hotel at Bethlehem, Pa. While there he
made good use of his remarkable powers of
fascination.
CAN HE CHANGE HIS FACEs
Every one in the hotel liked him, and he
was really the most popular man In the
neighborhood. This was strange in view of
the fact that he-had operated there years
ago and must have been recognized unless
he shares the faculty possessed by the
notorious murderer, Charles Peace, of
changing his face so that his own mother
would not recognize him. This is probably
the case, for prominent railroad officials
who had been victimized by him in the
seventies and eighties were 80 favorably
impressed by him on this occasion that they
would not believe in his guilt
His latest escapade is similar in all re-
spects to that of Plattsburg He placed
three dynamite cartridges upon the track of
the Lehigh Valley railroad and sat down
upon the bank toawalt developments. The
express came along and the engine was
blown up. The fireman jumped out Of the
window In his fright, and it is a miracle
that no one was killed
After his arrest he admitted to General
Superintendent Goodwin of the Lehigh Val
ley road that he had done theesdeed, and
said he had not selected that ro4d or that
train for any particular reason. but came
to the conclusion, after careful inspection
of the surrounding country, that that was
perfect spot for very pretty explosion,
and that was why he selected it.
HIS FRIENDS STICK TO HIM.
His friends at the hotel were indignant at
his arrest, but when the detectives vent up
to his room and came down with enough
dynamite to blow up the whole town they
turned pale. 1t seems he had whole trunk
full of dynamite which he was in the habit
of carrying around with MIN, placing it in
the baggage cars of trains and letting ex-
press wagons take it about for him. 1t was
in the form OF cartridges and was bought
from the Hecla Powder Company.
Barrand has not lost his cheerfulness on
account of his arrest. He seems to think he
has done an exceptionally funny thing.
He consented to return to Now jersey with
the detectives and give them no trouble
A story is told about him in the early
days of his career which is a fair sample of
his methods. When be was posing as THE
man from Peru" in the early years of the
last decade, he went into the works of a
great pump manufacturing company in
Philadelphia. After examining the pumps
and machinery critically for some time, and
showing a knowledge of the subject that
amazed the managers, he said thst they had
no pumps sufficiently powerful for this pur-
pose. Then he told just what he wanted.
and gave a de scription of an enormous
pump for bis San Juan mines in Peru. The
manager said he could fill the order, and
work was begun on the machine. The
man from Peru" got the firm to cash largo
draft. and then disappeared.
Belief that you ''can't be cured" Is a symP-
tom of dyspepsia. Take simmons Liver Reg
ulatOr.-Ad.
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