A DANGEROUS MADMAN.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

A DANGEROUS MADMAN.

An extraordinary affair on the express train from Boston to New York occurred recently. Shortly after the train had left Boston, and when it had attained full speed, a passenger climbed from the forward car over the baggage cars and tender, and made his way on to the engine. He drove away the engine-driver and fireman at the point of a revolver, and then took charge of the train himself. With absolute recklessness as to consequences he opened the throttle as wide as he could. The train dashed forward, and was speeding along at a rate of not far short of one hundred miles an hour. The cars rocked heavily, to the great alarm of the passengers, who only became more frightened when they learnt the circumstances. The driver and fireman, reinforced by a number of persons on the train, clambered back to tho engine, and a desperate struggle occurred in the cab before the man was overpowered and bound. Altogether he had been rushing the train along at topmost speed for a quarter of an hour before the engine-driver could resume his post. It has been ascertained that he was a lunatic, with a mania for travelling by express trains.