Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-04-26

Senator Money aud . Street Gar cendae-
tor Clash Over q Transfer.

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Washington. April Ex-senator ii
d. Money OF Mississippi, had an alter
cation with a conductor on n street
car Thursday. which resulted In the
senator receiving two severe blows
from the conductor and the conductor
being cut quite severely in the right
hand with a knife.
The AFFAIR was caused through a mis-
understanding about a transfer. Sena'
tor Money said he was going from his
home TO the Baltimore and Ohio de-
pot to take the 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 boarded a car
which stops at the Peace monument.
half dozen short blocks TO his destina.
ton. lie failed 10 notice this clrcum
stance until the car began 10 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 10 make
his train. hut after he discovered he
was on the wrong car he called to the
conductor and asked him for a trans.
fer ticket TO the car bound for tho De.
nor he does not remember what the
conductor replied. but failing TO re.
celve the ticket. but realizing he had
no time to lose. he jumped from the
car he was on and boarded the other.
lie had no sooner taken his seat he
says. than the conductor of that car
him and asked for his
ticket lie then told the conductor
that he had not had time 10 secure a
transfer. and reminded him that he,
the conductor. had been a witness 20
the circumstance Of his change from
one car TO the other.
The conductor replied that the sona-
tor would either nave 10 produce a
Ticket or pas his fare, whereupou the
senator told him that he had paid one
fair and was entitled 10 a transfer
which he had asked for, but had not
received. he would mot pay another. I
Thereupon the conductor told him that
II he would not pay his fare he would /
put him on the car. and Immediately I
proceeded 10 carry his threat into exc /
sution. This the senator resisted by
an upright post and engaged 4
IN a struggle with the conductor, who /
was not making much Roadway. when I
/ passenger. who had been sitting next I
10 Senator Money. volunteered 10 assist I
he conductor by their combined .
strength they contrlyed TO break the /
senator's hold upon the post and TO |
'orce him from the car.
The senator says that when they first
to eject him the car was In
ull notion and he feels that n they
lad succeeded at that time he would
nave inevitably been badly hurt.
The name OF the streetcar conductor
With whom Senator Money had the
rouble Is o. II. Shaner n vigorous. but
man. He says that he
I'D not see the senator leave the car
his. and that he did not
trike the senator until the latter drew
lis knife. and that he did not make
IN effort 10 put him on the car while
{ was In motion. His wound is a slight
.ut across the bali OF the thumb.
A warrant has been issued for the
Irrest OF Conductor Shaner on the
barge OF assault. II was sworn out by
senator Money.
A warrant was also sworn out by
he Mississippi Senator against James
= Hooper, foreman OF truck A OF the
district fire department. Hooper is
he passenger on the car who assisted
he conductor.