Show WILD WORK OFA MANIAC A Madman Captures a Train from Kansas City Chicago I And Runs It Through at the Muzzle of a Kcvolver A Terrible Fight with Fatal Results Before the Lunatic is Laid Low An Eventful Railroad Ride CHICAGO June Passenger train No Con I C-on the Wabash St Louis Pacific Railroad arrived hero yesterday an hour and a half late in charge of a madman Out of twelve or fifteen men officers and citizrme who finally secured him one officer is dead shot through the body another is probably fatally wounded several citizens injured and the lunatic himself lies in the county hospital mortally wounded WITH THBEE BULLETS IN HIM Shortly before noon yesterday the station policeman at the Wabash St Louis Pacific Pac-ific depot on Polk street received the following fol-lowing dispatch CnEiisA Ill May 31 I have an insane man on my train who has possession of one car Police at Kansas Kan-sas City Jacksonville and Peoria were all afraid to take him Please send ten or fAvnlvn Tinlicemen out on No 1 to take him when we arrive in Chicago They had better bet-ter come in citizens clothes they will have to look sharp or some one will get hurt Signed PUTNAM Conductor No 6 No 6 which left Kansas City last night was due here at 250 p m There was some difficulty in starting out No1 as directed in the dispatch and it was decided to meet the train at the depot Eight uniformed policemen and four in citizens clothes under command of Lieutenant Lough made up the squad which arrived at the depot ten minutes before the train was duo The train being delayed as was subsequently learned by ineffectual efforts to capture the lunatic the police were forced to wait more than an hour After considerable anxious speculation as to the condition of things on board No G the officers were finally anything but reassured re-assured by a dispatch from a suburb station warning them that THE MANIAC WAS WELL VRMED And would resist desperately A little later No C appeared in sight and tho police separating so as to form two squads awaited her arrival on either side of the track As the train approached the whistle sounded a number of warning notes in quick succession I People hanging half way out of the car win the to dows were seen to gesticulate wildly crowd and before the train had come to a standstill a dozen passengers iumped to the ground and fled looking back with blanched faces Officer Barrett was the first to observe ob-serve the lunatic Barrett was standing near the rear end of the smoking car and the madman with a leveled revolver glared at him from the front platform of the chair car the length of one car distant Barrett I turned half round and stopped instantly but too late a ball from the lunatics revolver struck him in the side and IN FIVE MINUTES HE WAS DEAD One look at the maniac was enough to satisfy anyone that while his ammunition lasted he would not be taken alive Seeing their this the officers after removing wounded comrade began a fusillade through the windows of the smoking car where the madman had taken refuge After a minute or two he plunged out to the platform fired couple of shots into the crowd leaped a Fourth from the train and dashed down fiTormn Officer Lauchlin started inhotpur suit and at him the lnnatic fired the last The effect but without shot in his weapon maniac stopped then and awaited Laughlins coming with GLEAMING EYES AND FOAMING MOUTH They clinched the officer tripped his I and they both fell the madman prisoner Laughlin unmercifully on the head beating his revolver The oflicer was in citi with clothes and was set upon and terribly zens who an excited colored man pounded by The mistook the officer for the prisoner arrived shortly and the rest of the squad cell secured taken first to a maniac was his wounds and then to the hospital to have When he realized that further resistance dressed calm sistance was useless the prisoner grew that his name was rationally and said quite old and Louis Reaume that he was 33 years Detroit from his home in was en route to I Denver The train men of No G tell a THRILLING STORY OF THE TKIP City When the man boarded From Kansas he remarked that the at that place the train after him to lynch him and that people left alone were he would molest no one At El if violent and with revolver he became Paso ill hand ordered the train men to in volver changes in the makeup cease making some all left the of the train which The the passengers madman made his chair car locked into the and were headquarters dared approach the lunatic others No one exchanged several shots and after he had he ordered the train Marshal with the City there to Chicago his proceed and from to law obeyed will was the only his wounds have been dressed Since somewhat noncommu Beanme has become FrenchCanadian he is a He says nicative trade and ter by bv birth and a fresco painter J in Detroit and three cmiareu m jvu wn i has a wife an sombrero and as he ran He wore a white thought by the down Fourth avenue was As the to be a cowboy on a spree residents which he arrived was passing train on by of the city a man outskirts through the aboard the jumped the name of Spruck stood He immediately maniac platform where the with his revolver the blazed away mediately chin and taking a Sprucks ball just grazing button from his coat mTTTT > LEfl SPRUCE STEPPED OFF AND WAITED FOB Ai UAiix TRAIN the maniac reloaded In the fight at the depot was empty and loaded as fast as than his weapon 150 shots were fired altogether more 31The maniac passenger May KANSAS CITY sensation at the Wa senger who created a today attracted bash depot in Chicago yesterday on account here some attention hallucination He came over of his evident esterday from Denver Pacific yesterday said the Union Louis Keaum and giving his name as He stated to the I he was going to Detroit been driven out of trainmen that he had crime of which of some Denver on account and that he was being pur innocent he was request he was At his sued BAGGAGE CAB IN THE PERMITTED TO BIDE armed with was He As being a safer place his arrival here the revolver and upon telegraph a notified by police who had been him but as the I at first proposed to arrest of insanity they decided man gave no evidence to continue his journey I cided to permit him which he did last night |