The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-24
USED HIS KNIFE.
Senator Money Slashes a Car
Conductors Hand.
Gives Version Of Encounter to
Newspaper Men.
WAS STRUCK IN FACE.
Trouble Started by His Refusal
to Pay Fare
When He Was Entitled to a
Transfer Check.
WAS STRUCK IN FACE.

Washington. April Ex-senator H. D.
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
conductor and the conductor being cut
quite severely in the right hand with q
knife. AS Senator Money relates the
circumstances, he was proceeding from
his home to the Baltimore & Ohio depot
to take the 9 O'Clock train on that road
for Baltimore where he goes frequently
for 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 on
which he was seated. The senator says
that he had only 5 or 4 minutes time in
which to make his train but that after
he discovered that he was on the wrong
car he called to the conductor and asked
MN Tor transfer ticket to the car
bound for the depot. He does not re-
call what the conductor replied, but fail
ing to receive the ticket and recognizing
that he had no time to lose, he jumped
from the car he was on and boarded the
he says, that the conductor Of that car
approached him aud asked for his ticket
He then told the conductor that he had
not had time to secure a transfer and
reminded him that he, the conductor,
had been a witness to the circumstances
OF his change from one car to the other.
The conductor replied that the senator
would either have to produce a ticket
or pay his fare, WhereupOn the senator
told him that having paid one fare and
being entitled to a transfer which he had
asked for but had not received, he would
not pay another. Thereupon the con-
ductor 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 senator
resisted by graspfng an upright post and
engaged in a struggle with the con-
ductor who was not making much head
way when a passenger who hadi been
sitting next to Senator Money volun-
teered to assist the conductor. By their
combined strength they contrived 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 fun
motion and he feels that If they had sue
have been badly hurt. The Conductor ana
his assistant did not. however succeed
in their design until the car stopped at
the next crossing to let off other passen-
gers. He says that both the conductor
ana the passenger We're very grun and
abusive IN their language and that after
ne LaI reached lne street the conductor
hit him severe blow over the heart with
his elenehed fist 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 it. This
weapon the conductor grasped and IN do
ing so 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 a very tail man, struck him an
other blow over the shoulder of a man
standing between them. This blow was
struck With the conductors bloody ha nd
and II hit the senator squarely on the
jaw. He was as a consequence of this
blow covered with blood from the con-
ductors wound and this circumstance was
responsible for a rumor that the senator
himself had been severely injured. The
senator adds that there We're three or four
policemen present, but that none of them
took any steps to prevent the alteration.
He also says that both the conductor and
the passenger who assisted him in his
ejectment. refused to give their names.
The senator was not badly hurt but his
trip to Baltimore was postponed. He.
however. proceeded with his customary
duties about the capitol during the day
as if nothing unusual had occurred.