The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-07-16
SENATOR McLAURIN'S LETTER.
ez, Explaining Senator Moneys
Fight With Washington Street
Car Conductor
Car Conductor

Brandon, Miss, July II, 1908 -
Hon. Lemuel P. Conner, Natchez
Miss. Dear Conner: Your letter OF
the 9Th. came in due time, in which
you ask me to give you brief account
of what some term the ''Street car IN.
cident" i'll Washington, 'as it lay
within my personal knowledge and
was made known to me from the eye
witnesses. - | would have answered
sooner but for serious sickness of sew
eral members of my family | was
not present at the street car and can
only give you the information | have
from witnesses whom [ consider cred
ible.
Senator Money had lost one eye,
and was having the other one and neu-
ralgia there from treated by an oculist
in Baltimore. 1t is about fifty minu-
ties run by rail from Washington to
Baltimore, and he occasionally went
over in the morning and returned to
The train left the Baltimore and Ohio
station at 8 O'Clock a. M, and it
was this train Senator Money was
trying to catch.
The yellow cars go to the Baltimore
and Ohio station and the green cars to
the Navy Yard. They part at the
EeLsoooo Moou,oor+ moan fO1r linn
dred yards from the Baltimore and
Ohio station, the green cars turning
south and the yellow cars north.
Some seIdOm-a yellow car
turns back at the "Peace Monument
but there is nothing to Indicate that
it will do SO. [ never saw but one
turn back there.
Senator Money boarded a yellow
car about a mile west of the ''Peace
Monument and when he reached the
"Peace Monument" the conductor in
formed him that the car would not go
further. He asked the conductor for
a transfer but was told by the con-
ductor that he didn't have time to
make it out, as the yellow car that
was going to the Bait more and Ohio
station and had stopped to take on the
passengers who had been on the pre-
ceding car was starting and he just
had time to board it. This conductor,
whose duty it was to give the transfer
H. ci oil
the other conductor that this passenger
Senator Money-had paid his fare
and he didn't have time to make out
the written transfer, thing [ was
told was frequently, if not generally,
done when yellow car turned back at
the g Peace Monument. When .the
conductor called on Senator Money for
his fare. Senator Money called his
attention to the fact that he was the
passenger the former conductor signal
ed him had paid and he didn't have
time to make out transfer. The
conductor told him to pay or show his
car Senator Money replied that un
der such threat he would not pay a
fare he didn't owe, and the street car
conductor and friend of his in the
employ of the City Government, who
happened to be on the car, seized SEN
ator Money and undertook to throw
him off the car while 1t was going at
the rate of fifteen or twenty miles an
hour.
Senator, Money chung with both
hands to the carseat until the motor
man stopped at the next street eros
sing, about one hundred and fifty
yards from the "Peace Monument,
to take on a passenger who there sig
nailed him to stop. About the time
the car stopped the two men succeeded
in breaking his hold on the acar-seat,
and they Immediately dragged him off
the car. After he was off the car
Senator Money took his pen knife out
of his pocket and opened it but made
no 6IOIb 10 uEC. llG saw
it and went to him and tried to take
it from him, IN doing which he
caught the blade which Senator Mon
ey ierked out of his hand cutting deep
enough for the blood to flow. The
conductor saw the blood on his hand
as he was getting on the car and
turned around and went across the
street to where Senator Money had
gone and reached over the shoulder
of a policeman standing near him
and slapped him in the face with his
bloody hand before Senator Money
knew of his appr zach. The police
man prevented further violence. Sen
ator Money, Immediately, and before
saw him, filed charges against his as
sallants, who, after they were arrest
ed, filed counter-charge against him.
Senator Money was suffering from
neuralgia, caused by the trouble III