The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-25
Senator from Mississippi For
c.bIy Ejacted from Car
WRAAGLE OVER A TRANSFER
Conductor Was Cut In the Hand and
Mr.. Money Received Two Hard
Blows in the Face-Passen-
ger Took a Hand.

Money of Mississippi had an alteration
with a conductor on a street car this
morning, which resulted in the Senator
receiving two severe blows from the con-
ductor and the conductor being cut quite
severely in the right hand with a knife.
AS Senator Money relates the circum-
stances, he was proceeding from his
home to the Baltimore and Ohio depot to
take the 9 o'clock train on that road for
Baltimore, where he goes frequently for
medical treatment of his eyes. He had
taken a car on the Fourteenth street
branch of the Capital Traction Company
line and had changed to board a car
which stops at the peace monument half
a dozen blocks short of his destination.
He had failed to notice this circumstance
until the car began to turn around the
monument. The car bound for the depot
was Immediately behind the car in which
he was seated. The Senator says that
he had only three or four minutes time
in which to make his train, but that after
he discovered he was on the wrong car
he called to the conductor and asked him
for a transfer ticket for the car bound
for the depot. He does not recall that
the conductor replied, but failing to re-
ceive the ticket and recognizing he had no
time to lose he jumped from the car he
was on and boarded the other. He had
no sooner taken his seat, he says, than
the conductor of the car approached him
and asked for his ticket. He then told
the conductor that he had not had time
to secure a transfer and reminded him,
the conductor had been witness to the
circumstance Of his changing from one
car to the other.
Must Pay or Get on.
The conductor replied that the Senator
would either have to produce a ticket or
pay his fare, whereupon the Senator told
him that he had paid one fare and was
entitled to a transfer, which he had asked
for but had not received, and he would
not pay another Thereupon the con-
ductor told hIm that If he did not pay his
fare he would put him off the car, and
Immediately proceeded to carry his
threat into execution. This the Senator
resisted by grasping an upright post and
engaged in a struggle with the conductor,
who was not making much headway,
when a passenger who had been seated
next to Senator Money volunteered to as
sist the conductor. BY their combined
strength they contrived to break the
Senator's hold upon the post and forced
him from the car.
The Senator says that when they first
undertook to eject him the car was in
full motion, and he feels that If they had
succeeded at that time he would inevita-
bly, have been badly hurt.
The conductor and mis- assistant did not,
however, succeed in their design until the
car stopped at the next crossing to let
off other passengers He says that both
the conductor and the passenger were
very CUFF and abusi, e in their language,
and that after he had reached the street
the conductor lit him a severe blow over
the heart with his clenched fist
Senator Drew a Knife.
The blow, the Senator says, was very
painful and in order to protect himself
he took a small pocket knife from his
pocket and opened 1t. This weapon the
conductor grasped. and in doing so he
cut his hand, so that it bled very freely.
After this proceeding other persons
stepped between the two but notwith-
standing their presence, the conductor,
who is very tall man, struck him an
other blow over the shoulder Of man
standing between them. This blow was
struck with the conductors bloody hand
and it hit the Senator squarely on the
jaw. He was, as a consequence of this
blow, covered with blood from the con-
ductor's wound, and this circumstance
was responsible for rumor that the
Senator himself had been severely in
jured.
The Senator adds that there were three
or four policemen present but that neith-
er of them took any steps to prevent
the alteration. He says also that both
the conductor and the passenger who
assisted in his ejectment refused to give
their nam es. The Senator was not badly
hurt but his trip to Baltimore was pre-
vented. He. however. proceeded with his
customary duties about the capitol during
the day as If nothing unusual had oc-
Cured
Conductors Statement.
The name of the street car conductor
with whom Senator Money had trouble
today is o. H. Shaner. vigorous but
boyish looking man. He says he did not
see the Senator leave the car preceding
his, that he did not strike the Senator
until the latter drew his knife, and that
he did not make any enort 10 pun MN
off the car while in motion His wound
is a slight cut across the ball of the
thumb. A warrant was issued this af-
ternoon for the arrest Of Conductor
Shaner on the charge Of assault 1t was
sworn out by Senator Money
A warrant also was sworn out by the
Mississippi Senator against James e.
Hooper. foreman of Truck A of the Dis
trict fire department on the same charge.
Hooper is the passenger on the car who
assisted the conductor.
Later Senator Money called on Presi-
dent MacFarland of the board Of commits
sioners of the District of Columbia and
preferred verbal charges against Mr..
Hooper Mr.. MacFarland told him Hoop
er would be brought before the trial board
and the case thoroughly Investigated.
Senator Money also wrote to the president
of the Capital Traction Company demand
ing the immediate dismissal of Conduc-
tor Shaner and eatening to sue the
company for damages IL such action was
not taken. The company several years
ago dismissed conductor at The request
of a Massachusetts Senator who resent
ed the conductors polite offer of assist