Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-04
SAYS CONDUCTOR
ASSAULTED HIM
SHOWS POLICE BROKEN NOSE
AS EVIDENCE
Negro Hardware Dealer Claims Street
Car EmpIoye Kicked Him Be-
cause He Refused to Pay
Second Fare

With his face bleeding in several
places and his eyes and lips swollen
to abnormal proportions, II. II. Will
| liams, hardware dealer of sol East
Adams street called at the police sta
tion yesterday afternoon and asked
the aid of the police in bringing to JUS
| tice conductor of the Los Angeles
Railway company. Williams claimed
the conductor had assaulted him while
on car number 166 of the Hooper ave-
nue. line on the refusal of Williams to
pay his fare the second time.
According to Williams, In company
with his little eight-year-old daughter,
he boarded the Hooper avenue car and
after paying their fares asked for a
transfer to the Maple avenue line,
which was given to him Immediately.
After riding for some distance the
conductor came through the car and
called for a second fare from Will
liams.
Williams demonstrated saying that
one fare had been paid and attempted
to prove his statement by producing
the transfers which he had given his
little daughter to hold. Williams claims
that the conductor would wait for no
proof, but called him a liar and the
next instant struck Williams q sting
ing blow in the face.
II rose to defend myself, but was i'm
mediately grabbed from behind by sew
eral other conductors who were on the
car at the time" said Williams yester-
day afternoon. 1.-THE conductors at
tempted to put me off the car and
succeeded in forcing me to the lower
step of the coach. AS l put my foot
on it the conductor, who had already
struck me in the face, turned about
and kicked me on the nose.
This was at the corner of Twelfth
and Maple streets, where my daughter
and | were to transfer. The blow from
the conductors foot stunned me so that
1 did not realize that l stepped from
the car or that my daughter also left
the car
Il was determined to bring the con-
ductor to justice and so ran after the
car and at the opposite side of the
street 1 boarded it, leaving my daugh-
ter standing alone on the corner.
secured the names of several of the
passengers whom l shall use as wit
nesses against the conductor.
THE affair occurred between IL and 1
o'clock this afternoon. In company
with my daughter / was just returning
from the morning services at the Tab
ernacle Baptist church. A few min
utes after boarding the car 1 rose and
gave my seat to some ladies as the car
was very crowded. 1t was after 1 rose
that the conductor came to me for a
second fare. / saw my daughter hold
out the transfers to him to prove that
1 had paid our fare once, but he seemed
ignorant of the fact"
After returning home Mr.. Williams
called in the services Of DR.. Curtis NJ
Beebe. The latter pronounced the in
juries to Mr.. Williams of a serious ma
ture and that the bridge of the nose
| had been fractured.
All efforts to learn the identify of
the conductor of Hooper avenue car
number 166 between IL and l o'clock
yesterday afternoon We're useless. The
Los Angeles Railway company abso-
lutely refused to give out the names
of either the conductor or motorman,
but from an outside source it was
learned that the regular conductor run
ming on that car yesterday was off
duty.