The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-25
MONEY IN A FIGHT
MISSISSIPPI SENATOR HAS ROW ON
STREET CAR.
TACKLED BY THE CONDUCTOR.
CLAIMED TRANSFER AND WOULD
NOT PAY FARE,


atOr Seems to Have Gotten Much
the Worse of the Amair-Was
Struck over Head by Conductor
and Cut Latter's Thumb with His
Pocket Knffe-PoIicemen watched
Fight hut Did Not Interfere.
Washington, April 24.-Senator H. D.
Money of Mississippi had an alterca-
ton with o. H. Shaner, a conductor on
a Fourteenth street car to-day which
resulted in the senator's receiving two
severe blows from the conductor and
the conductor being cut in the right
hand with a knife. As Senator Money
relates the circumstances he was pro-
! ceeding from his home to the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad depot to take
the 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 car which stops at the Peace
monument, half 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 i'm
mediately behind the car on which he
was seated. He had only three or four
minutes time in which to make his
train, but after he discovered that he
was on the wrong car he
called to the conductor and
asked him for transfer ticket
to the car bound for the depot. He
does not recall what the conductor re-
piled, but failing to receive the ticket
and recognizing that 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 that car approached him
and asked for his ticket He then told
| the conductor that he had not had time
] to secure a transfer and that
he, the conductor, had been a witness
to the circumstance of his change from
one car to the other. The conductor
| replied that the senator would either
4 have TO produce a ticket or pay his
fare, whereupon the senator told him
that having paid one fare and being en-
! titled to a transfer which he had asked
for but had not received, he would not
pay another. Thereupon the conductor
! told him that If he would not pay his
| fare he would put him off the car. and
Immediately proceeded to carry his
| threat into execution. This the SEN
ator resisted by grasping an upright
| post and engaged in a struggle with
the conductor, who was not making
much Roadway, when passenger who
had been sitting next to Senator Money
! volunteered to assist the conductor
| by their combined strength they con-
| trived to break the senator's hold upon
the post and to force 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
inevitably have been badly hurt.
Money Receives Blow.
The conductor and his assistant did
not, however, succeed in their design
until the car stopped at the next cross
ing to let off other passengers. He
says that both the conductor and the
passenger were very gruff in their lam
guage, and that after he had reached
the street the conductor hit him a Sc
we're blow over the heart with his
clenched fist This blow was very pain
full and in order to protect himself he
took small pensknife from his pocket
and opened it. This weapon the con-
ductor grasped, and in doing so cut His
hand, so that it bled very freely. After
this proceeding other persons stepped
between the two but notwithstanding
their presence, the conductor, who is a
very tall man, struck him another blow
over the shoulder of a 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 conduc-
,s,1
was responsible for a rumor that the
Senator himself had been severely in
jured.
Senator Money adds that there were
three or four policemen present
but that none of them took any steps
to prevent the alteration. He says
also that both the conductor and the
passenger who assisted in his eject
ment refused to give their names. The
Senator was not badly hurt, but his
trip to Baltimore was prevented.
He, however, proceeded with his
customary duties about the Capitol
during the day as IL nothing unusual
had occurred.
Shaner is a vigorous but boylish
looking man. He says that he did not
see the senator leave the car spreced-
ing his: that he did not strike the
senator until the latter drew his knife,
and that he did not make an effort
to put him off the car While 1t was in
motion. His wound is a slight cut
across the ball of the thumb.
Warrants for His AssaiIants.
A warrant was issued this afternoon
for the arrest of Conductor Shaner on
the charge of assault. 1t was sworn
out. by Senator Money.
A warrant was also sworn out by the
Mississippi senator against James E.
Hooper, foreman of truck 4 of the
District fire department, on the same
charge. Hooper was the passenger on
the car who assisted the conductor.
Later Senator Money called on Presi-
dent Mcfarland of the board of COM
rnissioners of the District of Colombia
and preferred verbal charges against
Hooper Mr.. Mcfarland told him
Hooper would be brought before the
trial board and the case thoroughly in
vestigated Senator Money also wrote
to the president of the Capital Traction
Company demanding the immediate
dismissal of Conductor Shaner, and
threatened to sue the COM
pany for damages If such ac-
ton was not taken. The company
several years ago dismissed a conductor
at the request of a Massachusetts sem
ator who resented the conductors po-
lite offer of assistance while leaving