Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-05-01
QUARREL OVER CAR FARE
Senator II. ID. Money of Mississippi In
an AItercation With IL Conductor.

Senator ii. ID. Money of Mississippi in
an AItercation With Conductors.
Washington, April Ex-senator H. d.
Money of Mississippi had an alteration
with u conductor on a street car this morn
ing which resulted in the Senator receiving
two severe blows from the conductor and
the conductor being cut severely on the
right hand with a knife.
As Senator Money relates the circum-
stances, he was proceeding from his home
to the Baltimore h Ohio railroad station to
take the O'Clock train on that road for
Baltimore, where he goes frequently for
medical treatment of his eyes. He had taken
a car on the Fourteenth street branch Of
the Capital Traction Co.'s line and had
chanced to board car which stops at the
Peace monument, half 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
Tor the station was behind the ear in 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 found he was on the
wrong ear he called to the conductor and
asked him for II transfer ticket to the car
bound for the station. He does not recoect
what the conductor replied; but failing to
receive the ticket, and recognizing that he
had no time to lose, he junped from the
cur he had been on thus far and boarded the
other. He had no sooner taken his seat, he
says, than the conductor OF that car ap-
preached him and asked for his ticket. He
then told the conductor that he had not had
time to secure a transferand reminded him
that he 1.-THE conductorl had heen witness
TO the circumstance of his change from one
car 10 the other The conductor replied
that the Senator would either have TO pro-
duce a ticket OF. pay his fare, whereupon the
Senator told him that, having paid one
fare and being entitled 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 Immediately proceeded to carry his
threat into execution. This the Senator re-
sisted by grabbing an upright post. and he
engaged in struggle with the conductor,
who was not making much Roadway, when
a passenger who had been sitting next to
Senator Money volunteered 10 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 un-
dertook to eject him, the car was in full
motion; and he feels that, if they had sue
ceeded at that time, he would have been
badly hurt. The conductor and his assistant
did not, however, succeed in their design
until the car stopped at the next crossing
to let off other passengers. He says that
both the conductor and the passenger were
very grutf and abusive in their language,
and that after he had reached the street the
conductor hit him severe blow over the
head with his clenched fist. This blow, the
Senator says,was very painful, and in order
TO protect himself he took penknife from
his pocket and opened it. This weapon the
conductor grasped, and in doing to cut his
hand SO that it bled very freely. After this
proceeding 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 it hit the Senator squarely on the
Jaw. he was, as consequence of this blow,
covered with blood from the conductors 5
wound, and this circumstance was RESPONSE
BILE for q, rullor that the Senator had been
severely injured.
Washington, April Ex-senator H.
d. Money of Mississippi was today
placed in custody on information sworn
out by Orpha d. Shaner, the street car
conductor who elected the Senator from
his car yesterday. The information
charges the Senator with assaulting the
conductor during the disturbance, and
the conductor produced witness who
corroborated his version of the story.
Senator Money, Conductor Shaner
and James Hooper, the truck foreman
of the Fire Department who assisted
the conductor yesterday, were arraigned
in the Police Court later, and their
trial was set for next Thursday morn
ing. Senator Money and Foreman
Hooper were released on personal bonds,
and Conductor Shaner on collateral de-
pos ted with the police.