Show PASSENGERS PASSENGERS HILL lULL KILL A AI AMAN ANAN MAN NAN WHO SHOOTS I TRAIN CONDUCTOR E SACRAMENTO TO Cal Sept 18 Be Because cause Conductor Jeff Gage of Southern rn Pacific train No 32 an eastbound local ti to Sacramento put him off the train on his refusal to pay his fare an unknown man seriously wounded the conductor and was wal as himself killed in a pistol duel just after tho train left Tracy City Cit Conductor Gage GatA said aid I I j I had h stopp stopped d the train just outside of Tracy to put putt the fellow off for refusing re re- re fusing to pay his fare and had and bad stepped down from the platform to give the engineer en the i signal nal to go I ahead abend when some of tho the passengers erB who were watching watch watch- ing log the nina man running alongside of the fence cried out Look out I Hes He's going go go- o. o in ing to shoot But before I could jump back I was hit lucre here indicating his right groin roin I I I 1 stumbled from the effects of the shot and finally succeeded in getting fetting- out my pistol and aUll took rok a t shot at nt theman theman the tho thoman man who had run ahead fifty yards ards by this time I dont don't know v whether I hit him or not Sonic of the tho passengers ers had rushed out by hy this time timo and taken several shots at him He Ife fell and n 1 I ran to where ho he la lay laj- covering IrinA him with iny ny gun all the tho time With the assistance of the pas pas- pen eff I took his gun UD hut but he died diell a few lew minutes later ono one of the shots shot having hav hay ing ilig pierced his If left INt ft lung un Tho bullet fired tired at nt j ingo O lodged just beneath the tho thoc c vest t. t The fact that tho bullet bul bul- let had to penetrate three of of clothing is ia probably all aU that saved Gage from front being killed The passengers who w witnessed tho the I shooting all sa say that Gage was fas per c I justified |