Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — FIGHTS ON TOP OF TRAIN [ARTICLE]

FIGHTS ON TOP OF TRAIN

Illinois Sheriff Chases Prisoner to Roof of Speeding Car. Joliet, HI., March 5.-s—A fight for life with a prisoner on the roof of a passenger train going 60 miles an hour, was the story told by Sheriff E. L. Sapp of McDonough county on arrival in Joliet with Frank Mullen, twentythree years old, sentenced to the penitentiary for larceny. After leaving Macomb, Mullen was permitted to go to the washroom at one end of the coach. Breaking the window, he clambered to the roof of the train. Sheriff Sapp broke down the door and followed. Mullen ran toward the ream of the train, followed by the sheriff. They grappled on the roof of the car and Sapp choked the prisoner into submission.