Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-28
SHOOTS HIS
SUPERIOR
AND SELF
Railroad Fireman Tries
to Murder Station
master.
CROWD AT CENTRAL STATION
SEES MUIR Ter ATTEMPTED
Heated Quarrel Is Followed by
Fusillade of Revolver
Shots. ~
CROWD AT CENTRAL STATION
SEES MURrER ATTEMPTED

Brooding over what he felt was the
alleged tyranny OF a superior. Stuart
r. Jones, fireman on the New Jersey
Central railroad, shot and wounded
passenger platform of the Broad street
station at o'clock this afternoon and
then put a bullet into his own brain.
The station master will probably re-
cover. Jones Is believed to be dying.
Five minutes after the shooting
Jones's father, Stuart Jones, came into
the station aboard the Elizabeth train.
of which he is engineer The crowd ran
to his cab shouting:
Jones, your son has Just killed the
stationmaster.''
The old man nearly fell from his en-
gine and was prostrated with shame
and grief
Probably half hundred passengers
were waiting for outgoing train1 on tina
station platform when Jones. a young
man Of q, walked out there just before
o'clock Some noticed that he kept
thrusting his hand into his hip pocket
and appeared nervous, but he paced
back and forth quietly until the station
master appeared to switch some trains.
Jones approached him and a heated
alteration followed. Then Jones drew
back distance of twenty feet
Damn you. Smith," he yelled. 'T'u
settle you now for myself and the rest
of the men forever"
With the words he whipped out a..
.s2-calibre pistol and fred at ttaaaas ssta1
tion-n1aster point>biank The first two
bullets went wide of their mark ard
Smith had turned to run away when
Jones fired the third shot. The ball
struck him In the muscles of the back
and he fell in q heap on the platform.
Sends Bullet Into His Head.
"B-I got your cried Jones. and
before a single one Of the astonished
spectators could reach either man he
turned the pistol on himself and sent
the fourth bullet crashing into his right
temple He fell, and the crowd rushed
over him as 1t ran to pick up the sta
ton master lying just beyond.
1t took twenty minutes TO calm the
spectators and get an ambulance to
the scene. Meanwhile Jones lay where
he fell, with the blood flowing from
the wound in his head.
When the ambulance arrived the two
men were bundled into II together.
Jones was now unconscious. while
Smith was able to walk to the vehicle
with assistance. When he saw his as
sailant inside he pulled away from the
men supporting him and said:
"I'n not ride with that murderer.
Get another ambulance for me or III
stay right here"
Jones was hurried to ST. Barnabas
Hospital, and when a St James's Hos
pitaI ambulance rushed UP q moment
later Smith was placed in that and car
ried there.
Glad He Did II.
On the way to the hospital Sergeant
Patrick Ryan bent over Jones, who had
partly recovered. and asked, Wny olo
you shoot the MANI"
For a good purpose. And I am glad
I did," Jones gasped. I'D do II again
II I had 70, too"
"I don't know of any reason in the
world he had for shooting me-" said
Smith But other employees of the Jer-
sey Central say there has been bad
blood between the two men for some
time, and some recall that Jones had
said he would do for Smith yet II the
station master did not quit his per-
emptory bossing.
A half-dozen detectives from head
quarters were put upon the case at
once They found that Jones had
bought the revolver with which he
shot his superior only twenty minutes
before the crime. Jones was working
directly under Smiths orders, being a