Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-14
WILD RIOE OF THE MANIAC.
He Drives Turiou~Iy +" a Polio. Static
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Redmond drove furouNly down Cottage
Grove avenue to- Calumet. down Calumet
to TweuJy-third street, east 10 Michigan
avenue north to Twenty-second street.
and thence to the Twenty Second Street
station. Throughout the drive he piled
the whip and the horse was kept at his ut
most speed all the way. Redmond turned
aside for nothing. Drivers of other vehi-
cles FASTENED 10 clear the way and then
stopped to gaze in wonder and alarm a.
the reckless driver Arriving at the station
Redmond drove his foam covered horse to
the curb, lcaprd from the sleigh, and ran
into the station demanding To be informed
Of the whereabouts of Desk Sergeant Tom
Carey.
where II" should Have Been Before.
Finding the man he wanted Redmond
held out his revolver ana exclaimed:
Take this Tola. I've done il at last
You've done what" asked the sergeant.
I've shot and Killed Wilder And this
j. what dId the business, " pointing 10 the
weapon.
By Sergeant Carcy's direction, Redmond
WAS placed iii cell Four Of the five
chambers Of the revolver had been emp
! mess, g. was received from the Cottage
Grove Avenue station asking that a look
out be kept for Dr. Wilder-s SLAYER
Being advised IF Ecdmond's action in
giving himself mp Lieutenant Healey sent
| two officers to take the prisoner tack to
the Cottage Grove AEcnuc station Red
Inonu accompanied them without word
- Was to Have I:een Expected. -
This murder j. another argument for he
safe keeping uf those who have been in
| sane. Two years ago Rcdmoud's little
girl was stolen, and for weeks no trace OF
her could Ice discovered During her alb
scnce Redmond. who loved her devotetllv.
went insane. lie WAS sent to Kankakee.
and in the meantime the girl was found III
an orphan asylum and one of her abductors
wa~ sent To the peuitcntiary Redmond
was released apparently cured. but his wife
had to leave him because he threatened
frequently to Mil her
We're AbundautIy Warned.
She informed the police that her hus-
band would surely Kill some one. but for
lack of authority or for some other reason,
Redmond was allowed to be at large. He
| used to drinl, heavily and at that time he
frequently called On DR. Wilderto he treat
| ed. The doctor was never in Redmond's
| house bot once, and after the doctor left
Redmond showed his insanity 10y destroy
ing the medicine left declaring that the
doctor was going to poison him At the
station yesterday he told a long story of
how the doctor had broken up his home
and tried to kill him, not one word CT
which j. true.
DIR. Wilder's EecoFt.
DR.. Flavius VI. Wilder was one of the
best known and most popular physicians
IN Chicago. He was born forty-six wears
ago in Oswego y. y. but was educated at
Ann Arbor, Mich. from which university
he graduated IN medicine in 1868 He i'm
mediately came 10 Chicago aud opened an
Office al State and Tventy-Second streets.
In 1870 he married Miss Brown. of Ann
Arbor. When Wilder was graduated his
parents lived in Ann Arbor. and his wife
was wishing there when he met his IN
timely death \ telegram yesterday al
nounced that she had started for hoIne.
The doctor was a Mason of high degree
an odd Fellow and a Knight of pythias.
He was generally beloved and his sudden
death is mourned by all who knew him.