The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-30
he OWNED THE TRAIN,
And His Two Revolvers OVerawed
the Police of Half a Dozen Towns.

ana His Two REVIEWERS OVeraWed
the Police of Half a Dozen Towns.
From the Chicago Tribune.
"a desperate with two revolvers is ter
rorizing the train. Have officers meet us at
the depot" was dispatch sent from Del
phos, o., by Conductor Craig Of passenger
train No. of the Fort Wayne road at noon
Wednesday to all stations on the line west
of Delphos.
The desperado, quiet looking man, APP
parently maddened by whisky, boarded
the train at Delphos. He did not become
unruly until the conductor asked him for
his fare. Then he took Il drink from a black
bottle, whipped out pair of revolvers and
with prodigious oath declared he would
never paid fare and drove the conductor
from the coach.
The foregoing dispatch was then sent and
the train sped on.
The drunken rUffian strobe through the
crowded coaches compelling passengers at
the point Of revolvers to drink with him
and cheer for Cleveland, and threatening to
kill any one who disagreed with him.
At the first stop, Middlepoint, a small
village, the marshal and the night watoh-
man, the entire police appeared heavily
armed. They peeped into the coach, but on
hearing his horrible threats retired behind a
neighboring corn crib aud the train
proceeded.
The Van Vert policemen were at the
depot. The desperate had fastened one
door of coach, stood with his back against
it, and covered the other entrance to 1t with
his revolvers. Passengers crouched under
the seats, and the policemen, after viewing
the landscape over, declined to enter the
coach.
The next stop was at Convoy. There the
two policemen were at the depot. The
walking terror became more bold, stood on
a platform and defied any one to touch him.
Officers were at the depot at MonroevIlle,
but he stood on the rear platform, flourish
ing his weapons aud inviting any one to ex-
change shots with him, and reviling those
on the depot platform in the most blas-
phemous terms He was not molested. At
Naples officers appeared, but declined to
act. He fired few shots from the platform
to keep the interest warm.
At Fort Wayne Police Lieut.. Lspp and
Officer Quinn, with patrol wagon, were at
the depot as a committee on reception. AS
the train drew in the conductor shouted to
them from a window that the desperate
was in the rear coach, that all the passen-
gers had fled from 1t. He was seen standing
at the middle Of the rear car, day coach.
The officers approached from either end Of
the car with revolverS leveled. They were
greeted by volley OF profanity.
AS they entered the car he shot at the
lieuten ant. who returned the fire. Both
balls missed. He snapped his revolvers, but
they failed to discharge.
The officers closed with him and dubbed
hun with their revolvers. He was power
fully built and an athlete. He threw
Officer Quinn over a seat, but was drawn
down with him and partially disarmed. A
terrible struggle ensued.
The arm of the desperate was broken in
the attempt to wrench from his grasp the
second revolver. He was finally thrown down
in the elsie, and the officers sat on him until
he could be bundled into the patrol wagon
and taken to the police station. Both the
officers were severely bruised in the struggle.
The prisoner gave his name as Henry
Kaufman, and said he was a hotel porter
in Delphos, O.. that he had a good Job
there, and was ordinarily peaceable, but
that a stray actor who was walking back
to Chicago from an Improbable eastern
season struck Delphos, induced him to
drink heavily, and then invited him to join
him In trip to the worlds fair.
The actor was lost in the shuttle.
Desplaines street police officers. the police
men at the Union depot, Depot Master
Cropsey, Assistant Depot Master Case were
all prepared with shotguns, revolvers and
other warlike implements to receive the
desperate had be not been arrested before
reaching Chicago.