The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-25
TRAIN
Passenger Kills Conductor
and Pullman Porter.
THEN SHOT DEAD BY POLICE.
South Carolinian, Angered Because
Drinks Are Not Served to Hin
Quickly, Opens Deadly
Fusillade.
THEN SHOT DEAD BY POLICE.

Wilmington Del. March 24-J. II.
Bethea, q six foot South Carolina con-
tractor. who boarded the Royal Blue
limited of the Baltimore and Ohio at
Baltimore, murdered the conductor and
the negro porter of the Pullman car
Czarina while the flier was running
through Newark, Del
The Royal Blue. with Bethea alone
in the Czariua with the dead men,
raced into Wilmington at sixty miles
an hour. The police and posse of
citizens shot the South Carolinian to
death after an hours fight in the sta
tion.
Bethea attracted attention as soon
as he took his seat in the Czarina at
Baltimore He was tall and raw
boned He wore broad brimmed felt
hat TUNED down collar and a flowing
tie He spoke noisily to the porter and
called for drink of straight whisky a
minute or two after the train started.
There were thirteen passengers in
the CZarina besides Bethea. half a
dozen of them women and children.
They glanced up uneasily from time
to time. The man in the wide brim-
med hat was calling for whisky every
few minutes.
Sam Wilson, the porter, had other
things to do besides carrying drinks
to Bethea When he was slow in an
swering the bell Bethea damned him
| for a black hound.
The negro tried to explain that he
was doing the best he could when
] Bethea drew an automatic ten shot
revolver and fired twice, killing VIII
son.
O. T.. Wellman, the conductor of rhe
train, demonstrated with the passen-
ger, who still held the weapon in his
hand Although the negro was dead
the slayer fired a second shot, the bull
let entering the victims stomach.
Then without Il word Bethea turned
and shot Wellman, who fell dead in
his tracks.
The double murderer barricaded him
self in room on the Pullman car and
threatened to kill the first person whc
approached. The passengers fled.
Meantime the train reached VII
mington. aud Police Captains Kane
and Evans and "A squad, REINFORCED
by park guards and posse of train
men and citizens. rushed to the scene.
Bethea was called upon 10 surrender
but he only opened the door OF bis
room far enough to point an automatic
revolver at the police and the crowd
and fire at them.
The South Carolina man had al
least hundred rounds of ammunition
He held the big posse of several hun
dred men at bay and also held up thu
train for an hour and half. Every
now and then the police opened fire a
the car in which he was barricadeC
, until finally all of the windows wer'
, riddled Travel over the Baltimore anC
Ohio road was all the while tied up.
: After an hours battling the polic'
a saw they would be unable to drive thu
. man from cover. so they sent for
! fire engine, and stream was played
, upon the window of the room. Bethe'
. fired fusilade of shots at the fire
men, the police all the time calling
upon him TO surrender. Bethea
drenched with water staggered to tn
car platform, leveled his revolver a
J. the police aud continued to fire.
Just as he fired his last shot Polio,
o CAPTAIN Evans. Sergeant Killeher ant
Policeman BOughman. uniting In vol
e lev. shot the murderer dead.