The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-29
MADE 4 HOT FIGHT
Caldwell Fireman Has a Jig
ger Too Much.
He ATTACKED A NEGRO
And Made a Rough House in
a Special Car.

tried to take possession OF the private car
Of General Manager Russell Harding Of
the Missouri Pacific system and for a
time it looked as If the intruder would
succeed.
Alr. Harding's private car containing
himself, air. Z. c. Clark. general super
intendent and 4Ir. ". c. Watrous. super
intendent OF transportation; Mr.. Doyle
Al. HarGing's stenographer and CLERK,
and the colored cook and the Two porterss
/ came il yesterday afternoon from Yates
4 Center and was set in the yards juss
north Of First street.
Along about > 0 clock when there was
no one in the car except 3lr. Doyle and
/ the three cclored men. Donaldson came
along and one OF the colored porters was
standing On the car steps. He says that
/ Donaldson saIuted him with 8 string Of
oaths and vie language and that he told
I the man that he did not want to talk to
/ him and that this angered the man and
/ he swore at him and ne called 70 Mr..
Doyle. and that the latter came 10 the
/ door of the car and told Donaldson that
| they did not desire to be advertised il
mad and said he would clean out the car
and he started up the steps TO do it.
B1r. Doyle says that the man looked
Wild and ne grabbed a chair and set it in
the doorway and started back TO the rear
Of the car to get something to defend
himself with and that Donaldson followed
him in ever the enair and struck at him
several times but did not hit him. The
colored cook came up with a hatcaet
about this tine ard he and the man
mixed up a little. Just about this time
an engineer in the employ Of the Pacific
who heard the loud talk ran up to the
car and started to climb the steps. The
beseiged occupants OF the car thought
that the engineer was q friend of the
beseiger ard had come to help him and
they retraate6 to the rear Of the car for
more implements Of war.
The cook ran back and got one OF his
best carving knives and organized a
charge on the enemy. The engineer took
hold Of Donaldson and tried 70 get him to
go cut Of the car and then the beseiged
saw that he was form them and not agin
them. They laid hands on Donaldson
and he was forced out Of the car onto
the ground.
Some one had run over to Main street
and had notiied John 1fcConoueh, the
officer on the North Main street beat and
lie hustled 10 the scene Of action. Nc
Cunough arrested Donaldson and told
him that he would have to go to the
station.
Donaldson resisted arrest and started
in to trim up the officer He attacked
the policeman and started a very lively
fight 1IeColcgh tried to subdue the pris-
oner with his fists as he did not want to
hit him with the club, but the man kept
aghting him and wrestling around and
finally threw him down. McColouEh
wriggled out OF his grasp and they both
get Up andthe Infatuated man came at
him again and the policeman drew his
club. He tried TO stop the first rush oy
using his club on the mans fingers and (
hands, but that di5 not step him and he /
kept coming and the Policeman tried a I.
few raps over the fighting mans shins +
but this only seemed 70 make him fight (
harder and Mccullough was compelled 10 /
bat him couple over the head to subdue I
him.
When the hu--y-up-v arrived Nc +
Couough got his prisoner into it and he .
was taken 10 the station ard he fought I
the oncer in the wagon au TIE way to the +
station.
The bystsnders Who saw the arrest I
made said that the policeman took more I
from the man in the first place than any
Gre would have done and that Donaldson /
struck the officer several times before the (
club was used and that they thought he /
would have been justified IN using the +
club sooner.
NIcCollough said at headquarters that
Donaldson was about the toughest prop
osition that he ever tackled and that he
never did quit fighting.
At the station the prisoner gave him
name as II. Donaldson and his home as
Caldwen, Kansas. ard also stated that he
was a fireman on the Rock Island.
Late yesterday evening member of the
local lodge Of the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Fircmen called ut the station To see
Donaldson. BE I'D heard th2t the latter
claimed 70 be a nrensa snd it is crsto-
mary with the T. O. =. T.. that when .
fireman gets IN any trouble to do what
they can in Q legitimate way 70 help him
out OF il. Donaldson talked to the local
fireman e1a Convinced him that he was
what he rePressnted. BE stated that he
was not q member ofthe 3. ef L. F.. but
had expected 70 5oia the order as soon as
he had been a fireman loHE enough.
lie stated that ne lived in Caldwell and .
was vel knswn around there, and that
his father vas 3 director ~ the Roc
Island road. He said that the way the
trouble started vss that ore of the coI-
ored men vas standing o. the steps of t1e
car and that - lust eaid "Hew are vou
TO him and that the negro sasa he dii uot
want 90 taIk TO bin. ana that he did rat
have much use for & negre anyway er5
he told him told the negro 70 60 20 ha5cs
and that the Negro called % some one n +
The car and that a feGow WITH g shirt
waist came out with hstchet and tod
him that = he came IN rhst car h would
hit him vith the hatchet ard that he
started then ard there n shew hia that
he couid 50 81 Re car = De wsate1 10
He said thai -e started - the steFs sr5
that the man zlt hin wiki the h7tch-t
ana thar he knocked him OF % the r-st-
FERN and that ssveral people rsr olt -
the car and he started % cierr th~u uo
zri soae enc jumped On h-n froz le-
hi1i slt pulled h'n CT 90 TIE car ard
th7t The policeman cane 10 and to,s hn
that he Rad re 60 20 the station aHd ta.t
De said thst Re woald 50 blt v,ri5 r-e-
fer % - vlth : waite --az an5 that ere
policemen struck hiaa ~i-h h's c,-h an-
that he started - rhip the policeman
and woui1 hare 6sre 't 4 several ~ tre
tTvtar5e-s hai net hsd his srzas
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