Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-02
SENATOR FIGHTS CONDUCTOR
MONEY OF MISSISSIPPI AND A STREET
CAR MAN ENGAGE IN A ROW.
Conductor Forced the Senator From the
Car for Refusing to Pay Fare and
10 Cut on the Hand with Pen
knife by the Irate Southerner.

Senator ii. d. Money of Mississippi
had an alteration with conductor
on street car Thursday which re-
suited in the senator's receiving two
severe blows from the conductor and
the conductor being cut quite severely
in the right hand with knife.
1t seems that the senator was on a
car which he supposed was bound for
the Baltimore & Ohio depot, but dis
covering his mistake, changed to an
other car, after asking for a transfer
which was not given him. BEING in a
hurry and thinking the conductor Of
the car which he had changed to had
seen him make the change, he calmly
took his seat, when the conductor OF
that car approached him and 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 SEN
ator would have to produce ticket or
pay his fare, whereupon the senator
told him that he had paid one fare and
being en- titled to a 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 he
would put him off the car and imme-
diately proceeded TO carry his threat
into execution. This the senator re-
sisted 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 con-
trived 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 the time he would in
evitably have been badly hurt.
The conductor and his assistant did
not, however, succeed in their design
until the car stopped at the next cor
ner to let off their passengers.
Senator Money says that both the
conductor and passenger were very
gruff and abusive in their language,
and that after he had reached the
street the conductor hit him severe
blow over the heart with his clinched
fist. The blow, the senator says, was
very painful, and in order to protect
himself 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
stepped between the two, but notwith-
standing their presence the conductor,
who is very tall man, struck him an
other blow over the shoulder of man
standing between them.
Later in the day the conductor, who
proved to be o. II. Shaner, was arrested
on warrant sworn out by Senator
Money. Shaner says he did not strike
the senator until the latter drew his
knife and that he did not make any
effort to put him off the car while it
was in motion.
He also brought charges against Cap
itol Policeman Murphy, who also is al
legged to have taken the part of the
conductor in the struggle with the
senator.