The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
tually that he was not what he represented
himself to be.
HIS DEBUT AS A TRAIN-wREoKER.


After his release from Auburn prison in
1886 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 Plattsburg 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.
Barrand, 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 if he
thoroughly enjoyed it. OF course he was
arrested He admitted at once that he was
the author of the damnabe deed, but ioked
about it and said he did it lust for fun
The Judge who sentenced him did not see
where the fun me in, ana gave him six
years in Dannemora prison. He behaved
so well that this was reduced by commuta-
ton to five Last spring he was liberated.
There is one thing remarkable 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 iocular manner, and goes on mer-
rily to spend his term. He is said by every
warden who ever had him in charge to be a
model prisoner. By his good behavior ne
ALWAYS gets his sentence committed. But
! as soon as he is Tree once more tne devil IN
! him breaks loose.
H was here in New York last May and
among his effects found at Bethlehem on
his arrest last week, was document of an
UNIQUE description. IL was marriage con-
tract signed A. Barrand, end containing a
number of curious conditions upon which
| he agreed to marry woman In Paris.
Rarrand told the New Jersey police that
he had been in Europe since his release from
Dennemora last March. This is not true,
as he has left his tracks in New York,
which has been mis- headquarters ever
since. For some weeks he has been stay
ing in hotel at Bethlehem, Pa. While
there he made coed use of his remarkable
powers of fascination.
CAN he CHANGE HIS FACE?
Everyone in the hotel liked him and he
was really the most popular man in the
neiehborhood. This was strange in view
of the fact that he had operated there year:
ago and must have been recognized, unles:
he shares the faculty possessed by the no
torious murderer, Charles Peace, O.
changing his face, so that hi,
own mother would not recognize him
This is probably the case, for prominen
railroad officials who had been victimlzet
by him in the seventies and eighties wer,
80 favorably impressed by him on thi
occasion that they would not believe in hi
guilt.
His latest escapade is similar in all re
spects to that of Plattsburg. He place,
three dynamits cartridges upon the trscl
of the Lehigh Valley railroad and sat dow
upon the bank to await developments Tn
express came along and the engine wa
blown up. The fireman jumped out Of tn
window in his fright, and it is miracl
that no one was killed.
, After his arrest he admitted. to Genera
Superintendent Goodwin, of the Lehig