The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-01

ton here. and they were taken charge Of by the police.
 l Just before the train left Birming-
 ham last night the man, David, and the 1 woman got on the train. Shortly af- terward Wenett and Rose followed. :. When Auditor Byrnes went through l the train, David and the woman show ed tickets to Demopolis. which the auditor punched. Wenett gave up 8
 ticket to Bessemer and Rose paid for going as far as Bessemer at the rate of cents per mile.
 When the train reached Bessemer neither one of the men got off at that
 place. Later in going through the | train. Auditor Byrnes asked all four to show their tickets. and then the disturbance was started. The man and the woman were the first that he asked and he explained to them that he was certain that some one was beat Ing the railroad, and he wanted to sec if he could find out who 1t was Tney all persisted that they had showed their tickets once and was not going | to do it again.
 When the train reached Jurney June | tion, Auditor Byrnes had it stopped and was going to put David and the woman and the others off. But just then Conductor Cobb came up and asked him not to do 1t. as there was no hotel accommodations there, and 1t was no place to put a woman on in the rain. Master of Trains Stoup was on the train, and when he was appealed to he said that he would back anything the auditor did. It was finally de- cided to take the four on to Wilton
 where they could get hotel accommo- dations.
 The three men claimed that they did TO atx AfH ruhAn fhAV got on
 the train at Birmingham, but the ap-
 pearances are all against them, and lit looked as if they had planned to
 bluff their way to Demopolis, or as Tar
 as Selma, on two tickets. This piun
 was not called strong enough by the
 train crew, so they carried things in
 their own way.
 The auditor says that he knew that two of them were beating their way.
 but he was afraid to put them on the
 train, as they were switching between
 themselves the two tickets to Demop-
 olis and the two which he would have
 put off might have the tickets ana
 then there would be a big lawsuit
 against the railroad. .
 As soon as Auditor Byrnes asked to be shown the tickets of the four soon after the train left Bessemer the three men began cursing and got up I0KetneT ln a DUTCH. AHSy eOt OAN s- bottle of whiskey and for a long while stood in the aisle of the coach drink ing and cursing. Except when the au- ditor asked to be shown the tickets the woman tried to quiet them but on
 one occasion when Auditor Byrnes asked to see their tickets the woman placed her hand on the pocket in ner brown tailor-made suit and told him
 that the tickets were there and that they would ride to hell on them with out showing them.
 When the train reached Wilton the
 crew got off to get orders, but the three rowdy passengers were not pus off the train, although there was ann ple hotel accommodations at that place
 for them. They began cursing and
 drinking again as soon as 1t pulled out of that place and continued until they
 were quieted by some of the passen gers.
 Besides the train crew the chief wit
 nesses against the three men who will probably be tried in Montevallo to-
 morrow morning will be Dr. T. W.
 Jones of Camden. Mir. s. J. Reynolds
 of SouthsIde and Mir. Charles Marshall of this city. In telling the story of the trip on the train from Birmingham
 to this city last night Dr. Jones re-
 lates practically what is told above.
 and MT. Reynolds and himself were
 the first among the passengers on the train to take matters in hand and to stop the three men.
 The three men are of the class that are termed fakirs and 1t is understood were on their way to Demopolis for the purpose of putting up and running a knife rack. Several citizens of Bir- ininghanf who are here say that this is the occupation which David follows
 in the Magic City and that he is a well
 known character around that city. The
 other two men were probably going
 along with him to help him run the
 knife rack.