Show BEGAN TO SHOOT AT CONDUCTOR I Unknown Man Who Refused to tc Pay Fare Killed in Duel Aft After After After er He Had Been Put Off Sacramento Cal Ca Sept 13 l Because S Conductor Jeff Gage of the Southern Pa Pacific Pacific train No o 32 an eastbound local to Sacramento put him off the train on his refusal to pay his fare an unknown man seriously wounded the conductor and was himself killed in a pistol duel this after arter afternoon afternoon noon just after a ter the train left Tracy Conductors Story Conductor Gage said I had stopped the I train just outside of Tracy to put the fel el low off oft for refusing to pay his fare and had stepped down from the platform to give the tIme engineer the signal to go ahead I when some of the passengers who were watching the man running alongside of ot 0 j the fence cried out Look out hes going to shoot but before I could jump back I was shot here indicating his right groin I stumbled from the effects of ot the shot and finally succeeded In getting out my pistol and took tank a shot at the man who had run ahead about fifty yards ards by this tills time I dont know whether I hit him or not Passengers Also FirEd Some of the passengers had rushed out by b this time and antI taken several shots at him He fell ell and I ran to where he lay covering him with my gun all the time as I feared he might be playing possum With the assistance Of the passengers pas engers I took his gun but he died a few minutes later one of othe the shots having pierced his left lung The bullet lodged In Gages trousers just beneath the vest The fact that the bullet had to penetrate three of or clothing is probably all that saved Gage from being killed The Thc passengers who witnessed the shooting all ail say Gage Gate was perfectly justi fied fled |