The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-25
ALTERATION
With SENATOR
Money, Of Mississippi, Used q.
Knife on conduc tor.
EJEc 1ED FROM S. STR r.. EE {. CAR
Senator Changed Cars and Didn't Get a.
Transfer; Refused Is Pay Second
Fare and the Trouble followed,
The Conductor Arrested.
fBJ Associated Press. }

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(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 24.-serla tor II IL
D.. Money, of Mississippi. had an alter t-
cation with a conductor on q streee
car this morning, which resulted IN 'he
Senator's receiving two severe s. ol V-'
from the conductor and the conductor
being cut quite severely in the Tlslef
hand with knife.
AS Senator Money relates the circunn-
stances, he was proceeding from n1a
home to the Baltimore and Ohio Depol
to take the o clock train on that r r1'4
for baltimore, where he goes frequently
for medical treatment of his eyes. iie
had taken car on the fourteel ieiA
Street Branch of the Capital aclioi'
Company line, and had changed to ooat t
a car which stops at the Peace moilu-
ment. half a dozen blocks short OF MS
destination. He had failed to notice '1l' Gus
circumstance until the car began 70 TUT,
around the monument The car pouliu
for the depot was edlatey benlnd
the one on which he was seated.
DEMANDED A FARE.
The Senator says that he had only
three or four minutes time IN WHICH, ~
make his train, but after he dlscoSeieu
that he was on the wrong car, he calleo
"a tha conductor and asked him for a.
transfer to the car bound to the depot.
He does not know what the conductor
replied, but failing to receive the trans
fer and recognizing that he had no time
to lose, he jumped from the car ne was
on and boarded the other. He had no
sooner taken his seat, he says, than me
conductor Of that car approached nm
and asked for his ticket. He then toiu
the conductor that he had not had time
to secure a transfer and reminded nm
that he (the conductor) had been Wit,
ness to tho circumstances of his change
from; one car to the other The con-
ductor replied that the Senator Wouid
either have to produce a ticket or pay
his fare. whereupon the Senator told
him that having paid one fare and pc
ing entitled to a. transfer. which he had
asked for and had not received, he would
not pay another.
PASSENGER ASSISTED.
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 exc
cution This the Senator resisted by
IdSplHS al iSllL poSI s'tN SA'SpSNo
in struggle with the conductor. who
was not making much headway when a
passenger who had been sitting next to
Senator Money volunteered to assist the
conductor, and by their. com bined
strength they contrived to break the
sena tors 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
f,,n ion, nd q fool hlf ba1
succeeded at that time he would have
been seriously hurt. The conductor and
his assistant, however. did not succeed
in their design until the next crossing,
where they stopped to let off other pas
scLgers. He says that both the conduc
ro- and the passenger were very gruff
and abusive in their langua &c. and that
after he had reached the street.-the con-
ductor hit him a severe blow over the
heart with his clenched fist.
BLOOD FLOWED.
This blow. the Senator says. was very
painful, and in order to protect himself
he took a. small penknife 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 proceedings other persons stepped
between the two, but notwithstanding
their presence the conductor. who was a
very tall man. struck him another 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 a consequence of this blow covered
with blood from the conductors wound,
and this circumstance was responsible
for a rumor that the Senator himself had
been severely injured.
The Senator 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 assist
ed in his ejectment refused to give their
names. The Senator was not badly hurt,
but his tripAto Baltimore was prevented.
| He, however. proceeded with his custo-
| mary duties about the Capitol during the
day, as if nothing unusual had occurred.
| CONDUCTORS ACCOUNT
Shancr is vigorous, but boyisll-lookng
man. He says that 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 an effort to put him off the car
while it was in motion. His wound is a
slight cut across the ball Of the thumb.
"A warrant was issued this evening for
the arrest of Conductor Shancr on the
charge of assault. 1 was swo.n out by
| Oeltd lOl ~ - w duI== NdS StiSO
sworn out by the Mississippi Senator
against James E. Hooper. foreman Of
| Truck A. of the District Fire Depart
ment on the same charge. Hooper is the
passenger OH the car who assisted the
conductor. Later Senator Money called
on President Mcfarland. of the Board Of
Commissioners Of the District of Column
| bia, and preferred verbal charges against
| Hooper
! Mcfarland told him Hooper would be
brought before the Trial Board and the
i! case thoroughly invest gated-
| Senator Money also wrote TO the Presi-
dent of ztte Capital Traction Company.
demanding the inm ediate dismissal Of
Conductor Shaner and threatened to sue
the company for damages If such action
was not ia ken.
The company several years ago dis
missed conductor at the=request of a
Massachusetts Senat tor, who resented the
conductors polite offer OF assistance while
leaving the car on an icy day. The com
pany's action resulted in vigorous pro-
tests at the. time.
OBITUARY.