Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-19
BANG. BANG! BANG!
A Difficulty on the Train between Express
men Result In = Shooting Scrapo mt the
Union Depot---Sevcn Shots,
nut No One Hurt,

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When the south-bound train ON tn,
Missouri Pacific road came into tn,
Union depot last night, w. l.. Hefl'nel
walked into the Texas Transfer Office
with his face badly disiigured. His
brother, Pete, who is the transfer
clerk, asked him what was the mat
ter, and was told that Messenger Nc
Mahon of the Pacific express had
beaten him up at Collinsville. Pete
ran out of the Office, jumped into the
car and struck Mcmahon, who was un.
loading his freight and who then left
the car. After the train had pulled
out from the station, and while the
north-bound Missouri Pacific was
standing in front of the depot, the
shooting took place. The following is
an account of the affair given the GA
zETTE by Mr.. a. z. King, an eye
witness :,
'At Collinsville Messenger Glover, the
regular Texas messenger, received a
big lot of eggs in cases. They were
taken in hurriedly and before Messen-
ger Glover had time To arrange them
in the car properly Mcmahon COM
menced kicking and cursing about the
eggs, and Glover said, If you ear
move them any sooner than l can, do
SO | will move them soon as / have
time" Mcmahon says, By God, /
will," and commenced throwing them
back, and breaking the eggs and cases
(Nou could hear them break.
Mr.. w l.. Hea'ner who was
uetd-heading back from Whitesboro
where he had been To carry the run
| from Fort Worth on account of no
messenger being at Fort Worth to go
out on the route, said to Mcmahon,
Mac, please don t throw them eggs
around in that way, you are breaking
them; we will get them out of the way
in few minutes Mcmahon said,
Heffner said, No, you WON'T and
about that time they went together
Mcmahon threw Hefi'ner over an egg.
case and got him down and beat him
and finally said, Have you go
enough?' Heffner said, No; get il
your work now; it will be my tim,
next, and after while HefIner turn
ed Mcmahon and got on top, when
Mac says, For Gods sake don't hi
me in the face, and Heii'ner let hin
up, saying, Il won't hi
you when / have you down.
Mac then grabbed Heffner and threw
him, and beat him in the eyes an,
face. Messenger Glover and / sue
ceeded in separating them, when tn,
Pacific man rushed for his pistol
which was in the safe. | grabbe,
Heflner, who did not offer to draw hi
gun until the Pacific man had his out
AS soon as Mcmahon saw / had Hefi
ner, and that Hefl'ner had pistol, h,
wheeled and ran from the car back {,
the coaches. The conductor came in
and asked what the trouble was, ant
gave him all the particulars in regart
10 the matter. The conductor
said: Il have McMehon's pistol.
told him had Heilner's
Messenger Glover took both pistols
and locked them in his safe and sale
Il will give them up to both of YOU
when we get in Fort Worth. AfteI
the train reached Fort Worth Pet,
Heilner and Mcmahon had som,
trouble IN the train and Pete struck
Nc. and Knocked him out of the car
Nc. ran off crying oh, Lordy! etc
Quite while after that Pete Hefinel
started down the platform and | went
with him, with Bill HeffDer behind II.
with an empty truck TO unload a
wagon of west-Dound freight that wa
standing mt the north end of the plat.
form, near the Pacific express office
When Pete got in front of the Pacific
Office he said TO his brother, sLook
out, he has got IA pistol.
About this time Mcmahon, who wa
inside the Office, shot ut Bill III ,frner,
who returned the fire, and Pee Heff.
ner, who l had held up to that time,
broke loose from me and shot once al
McMahon who then shot at Pete Hen.
per; McMahon then got behind his
freight and the door and this ended the
difficulty"
All three of the men were arrested
and bound over In the sum of $50 each
for their appearancei in court this morn.
ing. No one was hurt though seven
shots In all were fired. King, who gave
the above statement to the GAZETTE
man, lisa Texas express messenger, run
ming out from this city. Inside the
Pacific express Office the marks of two
of the bullets fired by the Heiiners
were found. One had passed through
small kitchen safe and entered a dry
goods box, another had struck the
iron binding on a track and made n
large dent. There was great excite.
ment on the platform during the shoot
ing which had not cooled much at A
late hour. The reporter could NOT
hnd Messenger Glover or Messenger
McMahon to get their accounts of the
affair.
Burial of Oliver Keller.