Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-05-01
HANDY WITH KNIFE.
SENATOR MONEY OF MISSISSIPPI
UsEs IT WITH EFFECT.

verely In the right hand with a
kuife.
AS Senator Money relates the cir
cumstances, he was proceeding from
his home to the Baltimore & Ohio
depot to take the o'clock train on
that road for Baltimore, where he
goes frequently for medical treat
ment Of his eyes. He had taken
car on the Fourteenth street branch
of the Capital Traction company line
and had CHANGED to board car
which stops at the Peace monu-
ment, a dozen blocks short of his
destination. He had failed to no.
tice this circumstance until the car
began TO turn around the monu.
ment.
DID NOT WAIT FOR TRANSFER.
The car bound for the depot was
Immediately behind the car on
which he was seated. The sentaor
says that he had only three or four
minutes time In which to make his
train, but that after he discovered
he was on the wrong car lie called o
the conductor and asked him for q
transfer ticket to the car bound for
the depat. lie does not recall what
the conductor replied, but failing to
receive the ticket and recognizing
that he had no time to lose, he
jumped from the car he was on and
boarded The other. lie had no SOON
er taken his seat, he says, than the
conductor of that car approached
him and asked for his ticket. lie
then told the conductor that he had
not had time to secure q transfer
and reminded him that he, the con-
ductor, had been witness to the
circumstance Of his change from one
car to the other. The conductor
replied that the senator would either
have to produce ticket or pay his
fare, whereupOD the senator told
him that having paid one fare and
being entitled to transfer, which
he had asked for but had not re-
ceived, he would not pay another.
SENATOR FORCIBLY ELECTED.
Thereupon the conductor told him
that if he would not pay his fare he
would put him off the car, and i'm
mediately proceeded to carry his
threat into execution. This the
senator resisted by grasping an up
tight post and engaged In a struggle
with the conductor, who was not
making much Roadway, when pas
senger who had been sitting next to
Senator Money volunteered to assist
the conductor. by their combined
st ength tney..contriycd to break the
senator's hold upon the post and to
force him from the car. The Sena-
tor says that when they first under
took to eject him the Car was in full
motion and he feels that II they had
succeeded at that time he would In.
evitably have been badly hurt. The
conductor and his assistant did not,
however, succeed In their design un-
til the car stopped, at the next
crossing to let off other passengers.
He says that both the conductor
and the passenger were very gruti
and abusive in their language and
that after he had reached the st eet
re conductor hit him severe blow
over the healt with his clinched fist.
KNIFE A SMALL AFFAIR.
The blow, the senator says, was
very painful. and In order to protect
himself, he took small pocketknife
from his pocket and opened 1t. This
weapon the conductor grasped and
In doing SO cut his hand SO that 1t
bled very freely. After this proceed
ing other persons stepped between
the two, but Notwithstanding their
presence, the conductor, who Is a
very tall man, struck him another
blow over the shoulder OF man
standing between them. This blow
was struck with the conductors
bloody hand and 1t hit the senator
squarely on the Jaw. He was as a
consequence OF this blow covered
with blood from the conductrOs'
wound, and this circumstance was
responsible for a rumor that the sen.
ator himself had been severely In,
jured.
The senator adds that there were
three or four policemen present, but
that none OF them took any steps tt
prevent the alteration. 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 to Baltimore was prevented.
He, however, proceeded with his
customary duties about the capitol
during the day as II nothing unusual
| had ODrurTnd