Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-14

man OF the traln was euuotahtslIJ
as given above. The conductor said
he told Mics Lee in the gentlest ma :
ner of the Law 10 operation 10
Vireinis. She declined to move to q
front seat for reasons of her own, aud
when the train reached Jackson City
. he said be again explained the
flaw to her and asked her to take
one of the vacant seats forward. She
said she was encountered with several
pieces OF baggage and such move
ment would be an inconvenience to
her. Mr.. Chauncey said he offered to
move h'r baggage, but no eutrest es
could induce Miss Lee to change her
set. He then went to the motormaD,
stated the case 10 him, called his
attention to vacant seats Ia the
forward position of the car, and again
returned to Miss Lee and made other
futile attempts to induce her to move,
at the same time telling her she was
forcing an unpleasant duty upon him.
These opportunities he continued even
after the train had entered Alexandria.
Her arrest, therefore, be claimed was
dissgreesble necessity. The con-
duttJr sverred that throughout the
entire trouble he was self.possessed
and acted as kind and courteous as
possible. Mayor Simpson In summing
up the case said the conductor had per.
formed bis duty 10 the premises, and
had he acted otherwise be would have
been fined himself. Under the cir
cumstsnces be SAID, when q passenger,
presumiDg upon her station 10 life,
defied a law OF the Commonwealth 1t
was the duty of the conductor to have
the same penalty inflicted he would in
cases where other people violated law.
He farther said he had read In Wash.
ington papers this morning of the grest
sympathy expressed for Miss Lee when |
she was brought to the station house. |
He bad noticed 10 bis experience that
was very cheap commodity, |
and that yesterday evening when such |
seas we're flowing no one manifstt ted |
any substantial quality to the value OF
s.. the amount of collateral usually |
left 10 such cases OF misdemeanor
A representative of the Gizette |
called On Miss Lee this morning to OBJ |
taio her version of the affair. She said |
that when she entered the Car Ia Wash |
IugtOn, che had number of packages !
aud , she being much fatigued, these |
were placed in the nearest seat. When |
the trsio had crossed the Long Bridge |
The conductor approached her and told |
her che would have to change her seat. |
A colored man was standing up and .
she saw no empty seats. She was told I,
hat the rear OF the Car was reserved |
for negroes, and she then asked II she |
was expected to give up her seat to the
,olored man. At Arlinf on the colored |
man secured seat, which be later gave |
up to a woman of his own color and re-
NAMED standing. The conductor again
Iold Miss Lee that she would have to |
move, and she asked II the negro could |
not get a seat in the smoker, but was
told be did net desire to 60 there. |
As the train was nearing this city she
says the conductor offered to get her a
seat and to move her packages, which
she asserts had not been done before.
BOT as no one was standing and as che |
wss 80 near her destination, she said 1t |
was not worth while, for che was very |
fred. The conductor threatened her
with arrest and asked her again to
move. When the train reached Wash
ngton street she attempted to allght,
but was told she was under arrest and
would have to 90 to the station house.
She was distressed over the publicity OF
he affair. and thought that the crowd
W ich FL owed her from the train 10
the polio. ett ton and from there to the |
residence of Mrs. p. T. Yealman should |
have besn caltsred.
Miss Lse left today for Ravensworth,
in Fairfax county.