The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-25
MONEY USED KNIFE
United States Senator Fights
Street Car Conductor.
OVER TRANSFER TICKET
No Truth in Report That
Senator Was Badly Hurt.

Washington, April Ex-senator H. D.
Money, of Mississippi, had an alteration
with 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 &, Ohio depot to take
the o'clock train on that road for Bal
timore. where he goes frequently for med
ical treatment for his eyes. He had taken
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 three or four minutes
time in which TO make his train, but that
after he had discovered that 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 what the conductor replied, but
failing to receive the ticket and recogniz-
ing that he had no time to loose, he
jumped from the car he was on and
boarded the other.
He had no sooner taken his seat, he
than he conductor Of
approached him and asked for his
ticket. He then told the conductor that
he had not had time to secure transfer
and reminded him 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 have to produce a ticket or
pay his fare. whereupon the senator told
him that having paid one fare and en-
titled to q 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 that 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 Roadway,
when a passenger, who had been sitting
next to Senator Money volunteered 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 full motion, and he feels
that if they had succeeded at that time
he would inevitably have been badly
hurt. 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 passen-
gers were very gruff and abusive in their
language and that after he had reached
the street the conductor hit him a severe
blow over the heart with his clinched
fist. The blow. the senator says was
very painful and in order to protect him
self he took small pocket-knife from
his pocket and opened it. This weapon
the conductor grasped and in doing so
cut his hand so that IT bled very freely !
After this proceeding other persons step
ped between the two. but Notwithstanding
their presence, the conductor who is a 1
very tall man. struck him apother blow
over the shoulder of a man standing be- |
tween them This blow was struck with (
the conductors Bloody hand and it hit
the senator squarely on the jaw He was
as consequence of this blow, covered /
with blood from the conductors wounds. |
and this circumstance was responsible !
for the rumor that the senator himself /
had been severely injured. The senator /
adds that there were three or four police |
men present, but that none of them took |
any steps TO prevent the alterca ton. 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 I
to Baltimore was prevented. He, how /
ever. proceeded with his customary |
duties about the capitol during the day !
as If nothing had occurred.
Senator Money also swore out a warrant |
for Jemes :. Hooper. a member Of the /
local fire department. who was the pas
scnger who aided the conductors. Later t
Senator Money preferred verbal charges /
against Hooper before the board OF COM /
rissioners of the District Of Columbia i
The senator also wrote the president OF /
the Traction company. demanding the i'm /
mediate dismissal of Conductor Shaner.
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