St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-28
BULLETS WERE THICK,
A Maniac Creates Terror
Among Chicago Brokers.
SHOTS FIRED FROM THE GALLERY
Widest Scenes Ever Wit
messed on the Board.
THREE PEOPLE BADLY INJURED.
The Assassin, Recently From
an Asylum, Is Captured.
BRAVE ACT OF AN OPERATOR.

BRAVE ACT OF AN OPERATOR.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.-A> panic on the
Chicago board of trade was witnessed
today more extraordinary than any,
thing possible from causes merely finan-
cial. Nearly 1000 people, brokers and
spectators, men and women, were held
helpless in terror for moments that
seemed an age at the mercy of maniac
sending death into their midst.
Cassius Beldin, poorly dressed and
incoherent-talking sign painter, stood
in the south gallery of the main trading
room and deliberately discharged bullet
after bullet from pistol into the crowd
ed pits on the floor below and into the
throngs of worlds fair sight-seers In
the surrounding galleries.
Three persons were unable to disen-
gage themselves from the confused
mass into which all were thrown in
time to save themselves from the flying
bullets. These are:
Amry Bennett, board of trade broker;
shot through the neck.
Charles w. Roswell, assistant chief
operator of the board of trade telegraph
office; jaw broken by bullet.
Mrs. w. w. Lewis, of Titusville, Pa;
worlds fair visitor; flesh wound in
back.
The first warning to the brokers was
lhe cry of woman who was seated
near the maniac. All eyes were at
tracted by the noise, the hubbub of the
traders ceased, and, in another instant,
the
SHOOTING BEGAN.
Every one scrambled for the shelter
of bulletin boards and ante rooms, the
crowd seeming to be more crazy than it's
asSallant. before any one recovered
from the shock sufficiently to realize
what had happened, and to take means
to stop the work OF the madman. The
first to act was Thomas E. Barrett, of
the commission firm of Boyden & Co., a
stalWart young Irish-American with q
record as an amateur athlete. With a
courage and readiness in emergency
characteristic of his race, Barrett made
rush up the staircase and throttled
the madman, throwing him to the floor,
while bootblock Wrenched away the
smoking weapon.
A scene of pandemonium had by this
time set in. The traders had partly re-
covered their wits, and the news of the
shooting had spread to the people on
the streets, who Immediately began to
crowd into the building. They sur
rounded the prisoner and his captor.
From fighting with the prisoner, Bar
rot & fn fri fO b
lynching. Half dozen of the directors
and other cooler heads promptly assist
ed him, and the excited throng was
kept back. In the pushing and hauling
that followed, rush was made by the
self-constituted bodyguard of the pris-
oner, and the man was soon hurried
into room.
The maddened crowd ran to the room
and the great stairway creaked under
its unusual weight In order to notify
the police it became necessary for one
of the secretaries to crawl over the
heads of the men. but in q short time
SQUAD OF OFFICERS
arrived, marched up the stairway, and
the crowd was driven back. During
the wild scenes attending the capture
and removal of the maniac many were
slightly bruised and the clothes of some
were badly torn.
While the assassin was being hurried
away by the police the scene on the
floor of the exchange was one of wild
CONSERVATION. Business was entirely
suspended, and the traders began to
group about the fallen forms of Bennett
and Roswell,
1t all happened just at the beginning
of the busy closing hour on Change.
The two men among the victims, though
thought at first to be fatally wounded,
are reported tonight as having good
chances OF recovery. The woman in
jured, Mrs. w. W. Lewis. of Titusville,
Pa, was seated beside her husband in
the north gallery, and one of the first
shots struck her in the middle of the
back, inflictIng a severe flesh wound.
She fell to the floor and was quickly re-
moved in a cab to DOCTORS office,
where it was said she would soon be
about.
The man who did the shooting was
evidently lunatic. He was a stout
man of middle age, poorly dressed, and
"Chicago." Subsequently he gave the
name of Cassius Belden. of 365 La Sale
avenue, Chicago. Business was COM
pletely suspended and everything was
CONSERVATION.
AS soon as the physician arrived, he
examined Bennett and pronounced him
fatally shot. Streams of blood flowed
from the unfortunate mans neck, and a
gaping wound presented itself. Ben
nett lay on the table, gasping for
breath, and the end was momentarily
expected.
Roswell was picked up senseless and
laid on a table. The ball entered his
chin on the left side and ranged down.
ward. Almost before the shooting had
ceased Tom Barrett, who seemed to
have more presence of mind than any
one of the hundreds of bewidered peo-
Pile at hand, rushed up to the gallery
and caught the man. The latter took
the matter very coolly, and did not
seem to realize what he had done.
at the first crack of the revolver every
eye, of course. was turned toward the
gallery. A puff of smoke ascended
slowly, and gave instant warning as to
the location of the murderous lunatic.
The next instant the revolver was again
pointed, apparently at the crowd to the