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Appeal from Cape Girardeau Court Common Pleas. —Hon. R. O. Ranney, Judge.
(1) The demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence under the second count of the petition should have been sustained. The peremptory instruction at the close of all the evidence under the second count should have been given, (a) Plaintiff was not a passenger on the train. O’Donnell v. Railroad, 197 Mo. 110; 4 Elliott on Railroads, secs. 1580, 1581. (b) The difficulty between plaintiff and the brakeman was personal, and the brakeman was not acting within the scope of his employment, in the line of his duty, and his act did not pertain to the particular duties of his employment. Hartman v. Muehlebach, 64 Mo. App. 565; Collette v. Rebori, 107 Mo. App. 711; Farber v. Railroad, 116 Mo. 81; Raming v. Railroad, 157 Mo. 477; Drolshagen v. Railroad, 186 Mo. 258; Milton v. Railroad, 193 Mo. 46. (c) Plaintiff sustained no injury during the occurrence between himself and the brakeman upon the train. Gilliam v. Railroad, 70 Ala. 268; McGilvray v. Railroad, 41 N. E. 116; McQuerry v. Railroad, 1Í7 Mo. App. 255. (2) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction number 1. (a) If the conductor had no authority under defendant’s rules to receive passengers on the train, defendant could not be held liable for the violation of such rules,- and the fact that plaintiff did not know that the conductor had no such authority was immaterial. 0 ’Donnell v. Railroad, 197 Mo. 110. (b) There was no evidence that the “agents, servants and employees” of defendant “who were in charge of said train” were at the time of plaintiff’s injury ‘1 engaged in the business of defendant and acting at the time in the scope of their .employment.” O’Donnell v. Railroad, 197 Mo. 110. (c) There is no evidence to support the call in the instruction that plaintiff was shot while being ejected from the train. An instruction should not call for a finding in respect of which, there is no evidence. Kimble v. Railroad, 108 Mo. App. 78; Heinzle v. Railroad, 182 Mo. 528; Black v. Railroad, 217 Mo. 672. (d) There was no evidence that plaintiff was shot immediately after he left the train. Authorities under e, supra, (e) There is no evidence that plaintiff was injured while being ejected from the train. Authorities under c, supra.
(3) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction number 2. The same objections are made to that instruction as are lodged against plaintiff’s instruction number 1, and are supported by the same authorities.
(4) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction number 3. The same objections are made to that instruction as are lodged against plaintiff’s instruction number 1, and are supported by the same authorities.
(5) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction number 4. (a) There was no evidence that plaintiff sustained any injuries in being ejected from the train. Kimble v. Railroad, 108 Mo. App. 78; Heinzle v. Railroad, 182 Mo. 528; Black v. Railroad, 217 Mo. 672. (b) The instruction allows recovery against defendant for all of plaintiff’s injuries. It was impossible for the jury to determine what injuries were caused by the train crew, if any,, and what were caused by the citizens at Neely’s. Thornberry v. Mining Co., 126 Mo. App. 660; Warner v. Railroad, 178 Mo. 125. (c) The petition does not specify damages for loss of earnings, or any other special damages. Kellog v. Kirksville, 132 Mo. App. 519; Heidbrink v. Railways, 133 Mo. App. 40; Slaughter v. Railroad, 116 Mo. 269; Davidson v. Transit Co., 211 Mo. 320; , Radtke v. Box Co. 229 Mo. 1. (d) The record does not show that plaintiff was a married man or had a family. Such evidence, if admitted, would have constituted reversible error. The instruction should have contained no reference to plaintiff’s family. Stephens v. Railroad, 90 Mo. %07; Dayharsh v. Railroad, 103 Mo. 570; Mahaney v. Railroad, 108 Mo. 191; Williams v. Railroad, 123 Mo. 513. (e) The instruction does not confine the amount to he recovered for medical attention to the amount specified in the petition. BlystonSpencer v. Railroad, 152 Mo. App. 118; Smoot v. Kansas City, 194 Mo. 513. (6) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction number 5. (a) It was not the duty of defendant to detach from its service all of its train crew and constitute them a posse comitatus to prevent either the brakeman, Allison, or the citizens of Neely from inflicting injury upon plaintiff, (b) The instruction is further erroneous in permitting the jury to find that the acts by which plaintiff was actually injured were committed by servants and employees of defendant while acting within the scope of their employment. (7) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction number 6. (a) The instruction states that the conductor and brakeman were acting in the line and scope of their employment in ejecting plaintiff from the train and in inflicting injuries on plaintiff. It assumes as true, and so states to the jury,controverted facts. Crow v. Railroad, 212 Mo. 589. (b) There was no evidence that the conductor had anything at all to do with any injury plaintiff sustained. (8) The court erred in giving plaintiff’s instruction number 9. (a) "An instruction on the measure of damages should be prefaced by a statement that “if the jury find for plaintiff, etc.” Such statement is absent from this instruction. Morrell v. Lawrence, 203 Mo. 363. (b) There is no evidence in the record that plaintiff was a married man or had a family. Stephens v. Railroad, 90 Mo. 207; Dayharsh v. Railroad, 103 Mo. 570; Mahaney v. Railroad, 108 Mo. 191; Williams v. Railroad, 123 Mo. 573. (c) The petition does not seek loss of earnings or other special damages. Kellogg v. Kirksville, 132 Mo. App. 519; Ileidbrink v. Railways, 133 Mo. App. 40; Slaughter v. Railroad, 116 Mo. 269; Davidson v. transit Co., 211 Mo. 320; Radtke v. Box Co., 229 Mo. 1. (9) Plaintiff’s instructions 1, 2 and 3 are in direct conflict with defendant’s instructions 8 and 9. The jury could not follow both sets of instructions. Defendant’s instructions correctly stated the law. Wallack v. Transit Co., 123 Mo. App. 160; Smith v. Eailroad, 126 Mo. App. 120.
(1) The demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence was properly overruled, also the peremptory instruction at the close of all the evidence was properly refused. Whether or not the servants of the railroad company were acting within the scope of their employment and in line of their duty, when the assault upon plaintiff was made, was a question of fact to be submitted to the jury, upon proper instructions of the court.” Knowles v. Bullene & Co., 71 Mo. App. 348; Tierney v. Eailroad, 32 N. Y. S. 627; Cable Co. v. Brantley, 18 So. 321; Eailroad v. Bowlin, 32 S. W. 918; Magar v. Hammond, 3 L. E. A. (N. S.) 1041; Craven v. Bloomingdale, 171 N. Y. 439; Daniel v. Eailroad, 4 L. E. A. (N. S.) 497; 1 Thompson on Neg. (1901 Ed.), sec. 427; 3 Thompson on Neg. (1901 Ed.), see. 3257; 3 Thompson on Neg. (1901 Ed.), sec. 3308; Flynn v. Transit Co., 113 Mo. App. 194; Krueger v. Eailroad, 94 Mo. App. 463; Eailroad v. Matthews, 13 Ind. App. 355; Williams v. Eailroad, 73 S. W. 780. (2) Defendant’s servants were acting within the scope of their authority and in the line of their duty, in ejecting plaintiff off of the train, and if their conduct in the discharge of that duty was malicious, wanton, brutal and reckless, these facts do not relieve the company from liability for the acts of its servants, committed in the course of their employment. Haehl v. Eailroad, 119 Mo. 330; Knowles v. Bullene & Co., 71 Mo. App. 346; Snyder v. Eailroad, 60 Mo. 413; Canfield v. Eailroad, 59 Mo. App. 354; Ephland v. Railroad, 137 Mo. 187; Clack v. Supply Co., 72 Mo. App. 506; Todd v. Havlin, 72 Mo. App. 565; Ruth v. Transit Co., 98 Mo. App. 1; Payne v. Railroad, 105 Mo. App. 155; Meade v. Railroad, 68 Mo. App. 92; Fishing Club v. Stewart, 93 S. W. 598; Eckert v. Transfer Co., 2 Mo. App. 45; Williams v. Railway, 73 S. W. 780; Railroad v. Seals, 100 Ala. 368; Curtis v. Railroad, 99 Mo. App. 506; Voegeli v. Marble & Granite Co., 49 Mo. App. 643; Garretzen v. Duenckel, 50 Mo. 107; Flynn v. Transit Co., 113 Mo. App. 194; O’Brien v. Transit Co., 185 Mo. 263; O’Brien v. Transit Co., 212 Mo. 59; Fades v. Railroad, 43 Mo. App. 545; McNamara v. Transit Co., 182 Mo. 676. (3) Even though a person is known to be a trespasser on a given train, if he is permitted to enter the train, with the consent of the conductor, or other person, in charge thereof, although he was riding in violation of the company’s rules, the company owes him the duty of-'ordinary care, and for failure to furnish such ordinary care,'in cases of his injury will be held liable for damages. Whitehead v. Railroad, 99 Mo. 263; Hahel v. Railroad, supra. (4) And although a person riding unlawfully on a freight car, is a trespasser, the employees of the railroad company have no right to inflict wanton or willful injuries upon him. Farber v. Railroad, 116 Mo. 181; Planz v. Railroad, 157 Mass. 377; Railroad v¿ Gantz, 38 Kan. 608; Feeback v. Railroad, 167 Mo. 206; Farber v. Railroad, 139 Mo. 272; Brill v. Eddy, 115 Mo. 596. (5) Both plaintiff and defendant proved that it was the duty of the conductor and brakeman to eject trespassers from the train, and it is not error for an instruction to assume the existence of a fact which is not controverted by any testimony, and which the parties, as they did in this ca.se, by the manner of examining the witnesses and otherwise throughout the trial assumed to exist. Davidson v. Transit Co., 211 Mo. 357; Taylor v. Iron Co., 133 Mo. 349; Gayle v. Car & Foundry Co., 117 Mo. 427; Fullerton v. Fordyce, 121 Mo. 13; Stotebier v. Railroad, 203 Mo. 702. (6) Plaintiff’s instruction No. 4, on the measure of damages properly declares ’ the law in this case, and similar instructions in cases of this character have many times been approved by the appellate courts of this state. Tandy v. Transit Co., 178 Mo. 243; Lindsay v. Kansas City, 195 Mo. 166; Reynolds v. Transit Co., 189 Mo. 408; Rodney v. Railroad, 127 Mo. 676; Whalen v. Railroad, 60 Mo. 325. (7) Proof of the earning capacity of the plaintiff in this case was made fully, without objection on the part of the defendant, and defendant also cross-examined the plaintiff on that point in this case, and defendant should not be heard to complain on that proposition. The impairment of the earning capacity is an element of the damage flowing from the nature of the permanent injury. 6 Thompson on Negligence (1901 Ed.), sec. 7294 and note 1; Dunn v. Railroad, 81 Mo. App. 44; Rosenkrantz v. Railroad, 108 Mo. 15; 1 White on Personal Injuries, sec. 184, and cases cited; 3 Sutherland (3 Ed.), sec. 942, 945. (8) The fact that the injury complained of, more or less incapacitated the plaintiff for the performance of labor of the pursuance of his ordinary avocation, is a proper element to be considered by the jury in estimating the amount of -damages to which plaintiff may be entitled to recover by reason of his injuries. Batten v. Transit Co., 102 Mo. App. 292; Robinson v. Railroad, 103 Mo. App. 113. (9) It was defendant’?? duty to use ordinary care even though plaintiff was a trespasser, and if defendant by the use of ordinary care, which included its agents and servants in this case, could have prevented plaintiff’s injury, and while they were acting in the scope of their employment, as pointed out in the other instructions in the case, and the plaintiff was damaged by reason thereof, that the defendant would be liable. This certainly is the law in this state, and the law in this case under the facts. Barker v. Railroad, 98 Mo. 50; Riñe v. Railroad, 88 Mo. 392; Reardon v. Railroad, 114 Mo. 384.
Statement. — This is a snit for damages accrued to plaintiff on account of personal injuries received, through the willful and wanton, conduct of defendant’s servants in ejecting him from its train, and immediately thereafter. Plaintiff recovered in the amount of $6010 and defendant prosecutes the appeal.
Plaintiff is a colored man, and that he was subjected to an outrageous assault at the hands of defendant’s brakeman all of the evidence tends, to prove; but though such be true, much of the evidence for him and all of that for defendant, tends to prove as well that the real injuries were not inflicted upon him until after he had left the train and repaired, to a near-by residence. However this may be, plaintiff is entitled to the full benefit of his version of.the matter, and we, therefore, set forth his testimony in full. In his own behalf, plaintiff testified as follows: “Have lived in Cape Girardeau about seven years. During that time have worked at various kinds of common labor. Worked for Mr. Hely and made twenty cents an hour; two dollars or three dollars a day at that.' Worked for-Mr. Matteson at one dollar and seventy-five cents; on the streets at two dollars a day; don’t make anything now. On March 8, 1910,1 was at the passenger station in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, when the passenger train came in. It Stood there awhile .and left and then the local came and the conductor stepped off of the caboose of the local and went into the depot. I walked to the door before he came out and stood there waiting for him; he had two little yellow pieces of paper in his hand, and I said, ‘Say Boss, I want to go to Crystal City with you, I have got a little money and didn’t have enough to pay my way on the passenger train, and I thought I would pay you on the local.’ He asked me what I was going up there for and I said, ‘I am going np there to work, I have a little money.’ He says, ‘How much have yon got,’ and I said, ‘I have seventy-five cents, I will give yon whatever you say to let me go,’ and he said, ‘All right, hand me a quarter, get right in that car next to the caboose and I will see that you get out at Crystal City,’ so I went around and got my bundle and got into the train and commenced talking to the boys and told them I was going to Crystal City, and after awhile the train pulled out and I was well satisfied and sat down a while. Both doors of the car I got in were wide open from one side to the other, only the back window next to the caboose had a little strip nailed over it. "When they got to "Bainbridge all was all right with me, and it seemed like they were putting out a hot box, and they passed by me and I was right there in the door looking at them, and" the man who took the number of the cars came around and I said ‘good evening’ and he said ‘good evening,’ and after awhile they got through, and this little brakie Allison came by and waved his hand at me and I waved too, and Allison got in the train, and the train pulled out. When we got about half way between Bainbridge and Neely’s Landing, Allison came to the back window next to 'the caboose and knocked and said, ‘Open up this window,’ and I said, ‘All right, sir,’ and went there to open it up and I saw where it was nailed and said, ‘ This window is nailed, ’ and he said ‘Pull it loose,’ and I said, ‘All right,’ and pulled it loose and he climbed on some steps and tried to get in, and said, ‘You want to catch hold of here.’ I knew I had paid my way and thought he just wanted to get in and talk with me, and I got hold of his hand and helped him in. I asked the other fellow, ‘Do you want to come in,’ and he shook his head and said, ‘No, I don’t want to come in,’ and he looked at me and I commenced talking to him, and he said, ‘Have you got any money,’ and I said, ‘No, sir.’ I got kind of scared then and was facing the one at the window, and the other one pushed me in the neck with his pistol, and I looked hack and jumped and said, ‘I ain’t done nothing, ’ thought he was going to kill me right away. He says ‘I know you aint, throw your --hands up.’ I threw them up and he searched me with one hand and held the pistol right there.' He could not find anything. I had a half dollar in my pants pocket hut he searched me all over and didn’t find it. He says, ‘This black -ain’t got nothing, I am going to make him jump out of this car.’ I says, ‘I ain’t done nothing, I have paid that man to go; I paid that conductor to go, what do you want to make me jump out for.’ The door of the caboose was open and I said, ‘Ploller in and ask him if I didn’t pay him,’ he said, ‘I ain’t going to ask him nothing, you -; you didn’t pay me. You think I won’t make you jump out,’ and he shot down twice right at my leg’, and I jumped back. I had my hands up and he said, ‘Poke them up, you--, I am going to shoot you right out of the car.’ I says, ‘I ain’t done nothing,’ just as he-went to throw the gun down, I was right at the door and the train was running. He threw the gun down to shoot me and I-threw my hand on it and snatched it up and it shot over his head when I took the gun. He says, ‘Please don’t kill me,’ and I said, ‘I don’t want to kill you; get out. of the car.’ The other brakeman and conductor and all of them were standing there and looking right at me. I says, ‘Get on out, I am not going to kill you,’ and he backed up to the window and said ‘You will kill me if I turn around,’ and I said, ‘No’ and put the pistol in my overcoat pocket, and he turned around and got out and said, ‘Now you got to give me my gun,’ and I said ‘No, I won’t give you this gun’ and he said, ‘You will give it to me, you-,’ and I went to the door next to the river as quick as I could and looked back and that fellow had a gun just this way ready to shoot, then I went to the other door and the brakie on that side was holding a gun, and by that time the train commenced to slow np at the station, and both men jumped off on each side and then the conductor that I paid came to the car where I was and called to me’ and said, ‘Come here, you old -, here is your -quarter; light, drop out,’ and I said, ‘I thought I paid you to Crystal City,’ and I dropped out, and as I stepped down this fellow gave me a punch and hit me right back of the neck, and I went oyer to Mr. Pulbright’s wife who was standing in the door, and said, ‘Will you telephone to the Cape for me, please ma’am,’ and just as I said that Allison fired at me twice, and shot me twice all up and down my back, and I fell, and when these men shot this woman yelled and went back in the house and shut the door. I fell sloping and went right back behind that house, and up side that big bluff, and they were shooting at me and crying, ‘Don’t let him get away; kill him, kill him,’ and I ran to the big bluff and got stuck and couldn’t get any further, and the brakeman that had the shotgun shot me again in the shoulder, and I fell and turned and came right back to him, and they commenced shooting at me and I ran by'them, and this brakeman cut down at my legs and missed me and I ran around to the door of this woman’s house and said, ‘Please, ma’am, don’t let him kill me. ’ I looked to see if I could get under the house, but couldn’t. They rushed around on me and this fellow throwed up his gun to kill me and said, ‘What are you doing,-your old soul,’ I says, ‘Don’t kill me, I am just trying to save myself. ’ The conductor that paid me had a shotgun, and the brakeman Allison had a single barrel shotgun, and the tall brakie that was at the door had a Winchester, and one or two of the citizens up there, and they had me there with my hands right behind the door, and this woman was standing at the door hollering, ‘Don’t let him in here, don.’t let him in,’ and I was standing there begging, ‘Please don’t kill me,’ and they were knocking and hitting me all across the head. The two citizens held me and one of the brakies, Allison, got a big stick and commenced beating me right in the back, and the other were punching me in the back with a gun, and they yelled, ‘Kill him on his feet; kill him right here,’ and Mr. Fulbright said, ‘Don’t kill him right besides my house, take him out from my house, ’ and they took me out from the house a short distance and held me, juggling me back and forth, and the two brakies were hauling off and hitting me, and Allison was kicking me some, so hard I fell down. They marched me around the house and someone yelled, ‘Lynch him, don’t let him say a word,’ and I said ‘0 Lord have mercy’ and Allison said, ‘-you, ought to have called on him when you came up here; Lord can’t do you any good now, we have got you. Taking my gun, you -. ’' I had my hands up and he whaled me across the head again. The brakeman and the heavy-set fellow I paid had me, too, all of them but the engineer and fireman. They were marching me around in front of the engine and they stood me there about five minutes and heat me awhile, and Allison, the brakeman, said ‘-, don’t kill him here, take him to the railroad;-I feel like shooting him,’ and someone said, ‘Hold Allison, don’t let Allison shoot.’ He was crying, ‘Let me get him.’ He commenced shooting, had his shotgun and they pushed me a ways and this time they let him. I was doing my best, shot up and couldn’t see much, but I was ducking and running just as hard as I could with both hands up trying to get back down the railroad to Cape, and I got down the railroad about half a mile near a tool house and two cars standing on the railroad, and they commenced shooting at me with Winchesters and I was running just as hard as I could, and aimed to get around behind the cars, and just then some fellow made two quick shots, don’t know who it was. They were standing back by the depot and I was half' a mile down the railroad, and one shot hit my leg and broke it, and the world and the cars and river looked like they were going around, and when I fell this leg came down and I fell back into the river and I laid there awhile and came to and my leg was lying sort of that way, .and I pulled it back and saw I was sitting right on the edge of the river, and I heard sounds of shooting right over my head. I was sitting with my back-to the north and holding my leg. They shot at me about forty times right there and then stopped, and I saw a board and reached and got it and got up on my hands and put my arm on this board and commenced trying to hop, hopped a short ways and staggered back and sat down. Could hear them coming hollering, ‘Kill him as soon as you get him, kill him, kill him,’ and I commenced to let down on that leg to get to the curve, trying to save myself, and before I got to it little Allison came behind me with his pistol in his hand and I let down on that broken leg and tried to hop, and he shot and hit me right on the bottom of the foot and deadened the whole leg, and I fell back into the river and laid there a good time, and Allison was running back on the railroad and said, ‘I told you I’d kill the --.’ I saw him when he was coming behind me, looked back, and he commenced shooting me as fast as he could, and one ball hit me in the bottom of the foot. Someone hollered, ‘He ain’t dead yet, finish killing him, ’ and the fellow threw up his gun to finish killing me and I said, ‘Boys, please.don’t kill me,’ and someone, don’t know who it was, a citizen I reckon, says, ‘Wait a minute, let’s let him talk awhile,’ and he asked me where I was from and I told him from the Cape and was going to Crystal City and had paid that conductor, and he had got me up here and was trying to kill me, and he said, ‘I don’t believe I will let them kill you,’ and waved his hand to another fellow and said, ‘Come down here and let this nigger talk.’ They questioned me and I told them I was from the Cape, and had been there for several years, and he said, M don’t believe I will let them kill you,’ and the brakie says, ‘What the hell are you waiting on there,-, we have got to leave, we haven’t time to talk with that-; pitch him in the river and go home,’ and this fellow says, ‘What is the use of killing a ——:— nigger for nothing? This nigger paid you to carry him to Crystal City, why don’t you carry him on?’ This brakeman yelled back and says, ‘You helped shoot him, why in the hell don’t you finish killing the-,’ and he said, ‘You didn’t tell us, you said he had come from away down the road and had committed a crime,’ and he said, ‘-, we will kill you and him both, you ain’t no better man than that '--— nigger. ’ Then this fellow hollered back, ‘I am going to carry him to the station and send him home,’ and he raised me up and I could not stand it, and he tore the lining out of my coat and tore off the shoe and told the fellow to go to Seagraves to send the car down. By that time the train blew and they put me on the car and carried me to the station, and I stayed there until the train came and. they put me on and sent me home. *1 was in bed five months as the result of my wounds — -six months I got up and was trying to sit around in a chair. I was shot in the back and through the right leg, and all in the back of the head, and on my side and all over, and bruised up insides, and cast up blood all the time. Prom the time I was shot up to now I have suffered great pain of body and will suffer pain from those wounds; just naturally feel bad yet. My leg still hurts every time I make a step. Where the ball was taken out of my left leg it is dead; it is paining right now and has never come back to itself. I was shot in the left foot and it is •swelled up yet. .The doctor performed an operation and took the ball out. I suffer from the wounds in my back; can’t pick up anything; give out in the back. Can’t do manual labor like I did. Have been trying to work for myself but can’t do anything at all. The leg that was shot in two is crooked now; gives out on me every time I step. It was not crooked that way before I was shot. Am thirty-one years old and was a stout, healthy, strong man prior to this injury, and always able to perform hard manual labor. Dr. Dalton attended me' and dressed those wounds and gave me medicine. Don’t know the name of the conductor that had charge of this freight train on which I rode. Carle was one of the brakemen, and the little fellow was Allison; he was the one I helped into the car and the one that shot at me in the car. Don’t know the man I gave the money to, he was a heavy-set fellow. When I got out of the ear I started to' run over to a house which was about fifty yards from where they stopped. They stopped right at the door and put me off on the platform, and the man I gave the money to gave me a quarter and told me to light, and stepped into the depot. Immediately after I got off the brakies hollered, ‘There he is, don’t let him get away'; shoot him, kill him,’ and they were shooting at me just liJre they were shooting birds, and I was running, too. After I got away from the door around behind the house and these parties came up, Allison and the other brakeman came up, too, and Allison had a club and beat me and knocked and kicked me all he could. Blood was coming out of my eyes and nose, and I thought they would kill me there on foot. They were hunching me on the back and side. After they caught me I could not run, and did not get away. When they were shooting at me I started up the hank and I got as far as I could, and this man shot me in the side and I whirled and meant to come back and I fell, and I came hack to the ground with my hands up, and when I fell the pistol that I took from the brakeman came out of my overcoat pocket. I went back there as hard as I could, and when they got me around the house and was beating and knocking me, then Allison thought about that pistol and he searched me and said, ‘The -threw my pistol away, take him back and make him find it,’ and they marched me np to where I made the turn and I looked down and said, ‘There is the pistol where I fell down,’ and Allison grabbed it np and threw it down to kill me, and a citizen up there knocked the pistol up and said, ‘Don’t kill him,’ and it went off over my head. They carried me to the railroad then and stood and beat me awhile and knocked me across the head. I have agreed to pay Dr. Dalton whatever his services for medical attention were reasonably worth.”
CROSS-EXAMINATION.
“Have not paid my medical bill, just told the doctor I would pay it whenever I got able to pay it. Don’t think I would know the conductor if I should see him again, but I would know his build. Had never seen him before and have never seen him since that day. (L. A. Gibson was here produced and exhibited to the witness.) That is the man I paid the money to down here at the station to carry me to Crystal City, and the one who told me to get off the train. I did not try to get on the passenger train that day. It was no use for me to try because I only had a dollar; I did not have money enough. Had been to Crystal City before, but never worked there. Had gone from Cape Girardeau to Crystal City about a year before; went on a passenger train on the Frisco railroad. Don’t know what the fare cost me then, but I bought a ticket at that time. This time I did not try to get on the passenger because I did not have money enough to go up there. The first time I went from here to Crystal City over the Frisco railroad I bought a round trip ticket and paid more than a quarter for it, but don’t .know just what I paid. That day the local came along about half an hour after the passenger had gone north, and this man I paid the money to got off the train and went into the office in the station. I first saw him as he stepped off the train. The train stopped and he swung off and went in and went into the office inside the station, and I went in and stood at-the door to the office and waited for him to come out, and when he came outT asked him if I could go to Crystal City and told him I had a little money, not much but enough to pay him to go. He asked me. how much I had and I told him seventy-five cents, and I wanted to go to Crystal City to work, and I asked him if he could carry me, and he said, ‘Yes, I will carry you for a quarter; where is your quarter?’ and I said ‘I have got it here,’ and handed it to him, and he said, ‘I will see you safely to Crystal City, you need not be uneasy,’ I did not count the cars in that train, but it was a short freight train and there was a caboose on it. I started to get in the caboose and he told me to get in the car, and I went over and got my bundle and came back and got in on the west side of the car. There was nothing in the car. It was a box car and both side doors were open and it was the car next to the caboose. There was a door in the end of the caboose next to the car I was in and that door was open. There was no ladder on the back end of the car I was in. There was a window in the end of the car next to the caboose; it was nailed up. It was about six,feet from' the floor, but I could see out of it. When I helped this fellow, in the car, and all the noise commenced and they were talking to me and cursing me and the two shots were fired, the conductor came to the window and looked at me in the car and I saw him then;' he came right to the car door and the rest of the train crew were standing there looking at it. Have lived in Cape Girardeau three years. Worked on the Smith farm in New Madrid county for a while, and then came to Cape Girardeau. Worked for Mr. Matteson here two years at one dollar and seventy-five cents a day, then worked for Mr. Morrison and then for the Union Lumber Company for one dollar and fifty cents a day. Loaded cars for Mr. Plely and got twenty cents an hour. I had no job wben I started to Crystal City. I started to go to Crystal City, March 8,1910. Tbe train was about half way between Bainbridge and Neely’s wben Allison first tried to get in tbe car. Nothing bad bothered me before that. He came to tbe window and hollered and said, ‘Open this window,’ and I bold him it was nailed, and be said to jerk it loose and open it, and I pushed it open and be commenced to climb in and I gave him a band and pulled him on in. I asked the other fellow if be didn’t want to get in and be shook bis bead, ‘No.’ He was standing with one foot on tbe caboose and tbe other on tbe drawhead and bad bis bead up in tbe window looking in. Tbe door of tbe caboose at tbe end of tbe car was open. Allison and I were alone in tbe car. Pié bad not said anything to me. Tbe first thing be did was to punch me in tbe neck and I looked around and dodged back. Before that tbe man in tbe window asked me if I bad any money and I told him I didn’t then Allison touched me and said, ‘Throw up your bands;’ I put them up and be said, ‘Shove them up further,’ and cotamenced to search me. I kept my bands up and be went all through me; all but my bind pocket. After be got through searching me be looked at tbe other fellow and -said, ‘This--ain’t got nothing; I will dump him out of tbe car,’ Allison bad the pistol in bis band then. He said, ‘Back out,’ I said, ‘I ain’t done nothing.’ When be made tbe shot this fellow came to tbe door of tbe caboose. There were two of them standing in tbe door of tbe caboose looking in tbe window. Tbe train was moving then. Allison backed me up to tbe door and started to shoot me and as be started to pull tbe trigger I snatched tbe gun and it went off over bis bead. Two shots were fired at my body down here before that wben they were backing me up. Allison told me to bold up my bands, that be wanted to search me and get my money. I told him I didn’t have anything and he said he would search me and see. He was facing me when he fired the first shot, but I did not have hold of him. He was on the side next to the river and backed me up next to the door on the west side. While I was backing up he shot at me twice. I could not tell which way the shots were going; I was looking at him and begged'him not to kill me. The third shot was when he came up to me and I was right next to the .door, and then I took the pistol from him. When I snatched the pistol the other man looking in the window left. Allison was then begging me not to kill him and I said, ‘I am not going to kill you.’ When the third shot was fired the other man went back in the caboose and shut the door. It was not long from the time that Allison came in the car to the time he told me to throw up my hands. I was looking at the other fellow in the window and Allison had the gun punching me in my neck. It was about five minutes from the time Allison began to shoot until he got out of the car. He backed to the same hole he came in, but would not get out until I dropped my gun in my pocket. When I dropped my gun in my pocket he got out; he went in the caboose. When he got out of the car I ran to the door on the side next to the river and looked out toward the caboose and the other brakeman that had had his head in the car had a gun ready to shoot. Don’t know what kind of a gun, I just got a glimpse of it and took my head in. Then I ran back to the door on the other side and saw Allison with a gun; he was standing on the steps of the caboose. They did not say anything to me while they were standing out there on the steps. The train blew for Neely’s station while they were standing out there on the steps, and when it slacked up to stop the first man that jumped off was the man I paid. The train was then right at the station and he stepped off on the platform. The .car I was in was then opposite the door of the depot. The conductor got off the front end of the caboose on the west side and came up there and told me to drop out; to light. I was standing in the door and said, £I thought that you were going to carry me to Crystal City,’ He says, £No matter about that, you fall out.’ This was the same man I paid the money to at the Cape. I got out and when I first lighted a lich hit me in the back of the head; I was right at the car door in front of the station door, but don’t know what brakeman it was. He hit me in the ..back of the head with the gun he had and gave me a punch, and I didn’t look around but went straight to that woman’s house. That is all that was done there; no shot fired then. I started over to Fulbright’s house, the depot agent’s house, which was about fifty yards from the car, right at the foot of the hill. I had to cross a road to get there. While I was on the way over there two shots took place and I hit the ground. I was running and had gone about fifty yards, from the car before the shot was fired. The shot took me in the back; it was from a shotgun fired by little Allison, who was standing on the steps of the caboose. The other brakeman was in front of the car door next to the river looking through the car I got out of with his gun in his hand. The shot were little bits of shot, but they knocked me down, I hit the ground. There were two shots fired by Allison. I was then right in front of Fulbright’s house. I then got up and went around the corner of the house toward the north, and as I went around the corner two more shots were fired from a shotgun, but I don’t know who fired them. Every time a shotgun was fired I felt it. I did not go around the house then, didn’t have time, but just kept pulling until I got to that hill. Thought I could get up the hill and get away. I started to go around the house, but when the two shots were ■ fired I forgot which way I was going and started for the hill and I made a turn and was shot in the side and fell down. I was going toward a little thicket of woods. They were shooting at me all the time with shotguns, Winchesters and pistols. From the time I left the depot up to that time there were about two hundred shots fired at me, I reckon. There was nobody near me when I got to the house, but they were down at the station shooting at me. I got about forty feet from the house but could not crawl up the bluff. They were shooting at me from the station and one fellow shot at me with a shotgun and hit me in the side and I whirled and went back to the crowd. They were then coming up on me and hollering, ‘Kill him.’ Think there were about thirteen in the crowd and all had guns; shooting all the time and hollering, ‘Don’t let him get away.’ Some of them were trainmen and some were not. I did not have time to look at what trainmen were in the crowd. At that time they were up by the station agent’s house and were all hollering, ‘Kill him, don’t let him get away.’ Everybody was saying that. Every man I saw but two had guns. They caught me at the back side of the house, at thé kitchen door where I had run when they came up with me. I went to the door and knocked and said, ‘Lady, please let me in, don’t let them kill'me,’ and she held the door and hollered, ‘Here he is, don’t let him get in.’ When the crowd got there they rushed around as quick as they could and threw the gun up to shoot and I threw my hands up and says, ‘I am just trying to save myself,’ and the little brakeman Allison ran up to me and threw up his gun to kill me, and one of the fellows knocked it up and it went off. After they stopped him two of the brakies made two shots at me. No other kind of shot except the shotgun shot hit me up by the house, but some rifle shots hit my overcoat. They took me out from the house and one brakeman got on one side and one on the other, and the little brakeman got behind me with a stick and they told me to poke my head up. All the other people were holding the guns on me. They took me out from the house and stood me there two or three minutes and held my hands up, and the brakeman beat me while the other fellows had their guns on me, pistols, shotguns and Winchesters. The brakeman said, ‘Lynch him; don’t let him say a word/ Then they carried me to the railroad and stood me there about a minute and commenced shoving me down the railroad on the north side of the station. The engine was just past the station at the north end of the platform and that is where they took me. They beat me and kicked me and knocked me across the head; that was the same crowd that had me on the hill. They did not shoot me while I was standing there. I had been shot with a shotgun when I was running up towards the house, but was not shot at the station when they brought me back. Then two of them commenced pushing me down the railroad south toward the Cape; the others were standing still waiting until they got me far enough to shoot. I knew the brakemen that were hollering to shoot, but didn’t know anybody else in that crowd; there were about thirteen in the crowd. Two of the brakemen were pushing me down the railroad. One of the citizens was holding Allison who was trying to get away to kill me on the spot. The other citizens were hollering, ‘Don’t let him kill him yet; carry him out of the wav/ and Allison was crying and hollering to get loose. They pushed me down the railroad about forty feet and then they turned me loose and commenced to fire at me with pistols and the little brakeman Allison hollered to them, ‘Look out of the way, let me get the-/ and the other fellows that were standing there hollered, ‘Run, run, run,’ and this fellow hauled off and shot at me twice. Don’t know’how many shots were fired after they let me loose; close on to fifty, I reckon. The two brakies that had me were cracking as fast as they could, and Allison after they turned him loose, shot me twice with shotgun, and the other brakeman that had the Winshester commenced to cut down on me. Don’t know whether anybody else fired at me, didn’t have time to look back. I was running but no Winchester shots or pistol shots had hit me yet, but they were cutting my coat all to piecés. I was running down the railroad toward the Cape and had run a quarter or a half a mile before I was shot. Then I was shot in the right leg about four inches below the knee. I couldn’t run any more. I was then about even with the cars on the switch and I went around the car and staggered and fell and laid there a while with my hand in the river. The first shot that hit me was the first rifle shot fired, and I was then about half a mile from the station. I laid there about five minutes before somebody came 'down there.- There were about five of them came down there. There was Carle, one of the brakemen, and Allison and the other brakeman, I don’t know him, but he had a gun, and the conductor that took the quarter from me came down, and Mr. Seagraves. I was down on the river bank and when they came down there I got up on one leg. The other leg was broken at that time by the shot. I got up and commenced hopping along and Allison came right in behind me with his pistol and commenced shooting at me, and he hit me right in the bottom of the foot; don’t know whether it broke any’bones, but it was awful hurting. There were six shots fired at me down there, but only one hit me, a pistol shot; that was in my foot. There was no shotgun shots made then. Allison ran up on the railroad and said to the rest, ‘I told you I would kill the -.’ I was then lying down on the bank, and when I turned my head one of the brakies said, ‘He ain’t dead yet; kill him,’ and Allison turned around and says, ‘He ain’t dead yet; kill the-,’ and he threw up his gun to kill me, and the other strange fellow that came along said, ‘Wait a minute, let us let him talk.’ Allison was then standing about thirty feet from me on the railroad ready to shoot. The other man, I don’t know who he was, came down where I was and commenced to question me and I told him where I was from and my business. Allison hollered and asked them what they were waiting on, and said, ‘Look out the way, and let me finish killing that nigger, and put him in the river; we have got to leave.’ They had been standing around there two or three minutes and this fellow hollered back and said, ‘Go on and leave; I am not going to let you kill him. ’ Then they turned around and walked up the railroad toward the station. They had to go a quarter or half a mile and they got on the train and the train left. The man that talked to me told a little boy to go up and tell a man to fetch the hand car, and two men fetched it back and they got me up to the car and carried me to the station and put me in there. This was about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and I stayed at the station until the 10 o’clock passenger came and was then brought down to the Cape, and Dr. Dalton treated me after I got here; he is the only one. That was my first time at Neely’s Landing, but I had passed through there once or twice; once going to St. Louis and once going to Crystal City. Had traveled up and down the railroad to St. Louis two or three times Before that trip on passenger trains.”
RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.
“Q. Have you got the clothing; that is, the coat and shoes that yon wore that day yon were shot up at Neely’s Landing? A. Yes.
Q. Now I will ask yon if this is the shoe yon wore the day yon were shot (exhibits shoe to witness)? A. Yes, sir.
That is the sock I had on, and the hole in the bottom of the foot is the bullet hole where Allison shot me. I was shot in the under part of the foot while I was hopping.
Q. Now this (exhibiting coat to witness)? A That is the overcoat I had on.
The place it is torn is where they tore it ont to wrap my leg in. These little holes in the lining of the coat are shot holes. I had that coat on. That day was the first time I had ever seen any of these railroad men. I never knew Gibson or Allison or Carle, or any of them that were in charge of the train that day. Did not know any of them before the shooting. Mr. Gibson looks like the man that I gave the money to. I paid this money to one of the railroad men that carried the orders from the depot to the engine. Saw him carry papers and give them to the engineer and hailed him right there. He got that paper in the telegraph office at the station and I asked him just .as he came ont. As the train pulled ont I stood right in the door of the car; both side doors were open. I saw the trainmen at Bainbridge and among them was the man that I gave the money to; they saw me and spoke to me and didn’t say anything about my getting off the train then. We were about half way between Bainbridge and Neely’s when the brakeman Allison came to the window. When I stated that there were 200 shots fired up there at Neely’s Landing that is simply my estimate.
Q. You said yesterday afternoon that some man prevented Allison from shooting you .after he had run you over there across the road; did you ever learn who that was? A. No, sir; I never did learn who he was.
Q. You did not know any of the people up there, the citizens? Mr. Whybark: Object to any.evidence as to what took place down below town at the time of that shooting because it is clearly outside .of the transaction. .
Mr. Alexander: I am asking when they first commenced, across the road, when they had run him off the' platform.
Mr. Whybark: Object to that because he had left the train, and was no longer on the depot grounds.
The objection was overruled and defendant excepted,
A. No, sir. When I got off the train on the platform I noticed two or three other people there besides the railroad men. It looked to me like they had guns, but I did not know them and don’t know whether they were railroad men or not.”
RECROSS-EXAMINATION.
“The bullet went into the shoe and came out into my foot. Did not go through the foot but'stopped up herb, think it shattered one bone, the doctor said.. That shot was fired when I was down under the river bank after I had been shot in the leg. That is the last shot that was fired and it hit me in my left foot. The right leg was broke. I had this coat on when I was running. The fellow that helped me tore part of the lining out to wrap my leg; outside of that the lining was good. The hole in the shoulder was where a shot or something touched me, but didn’t make any wound; think that shot was fired when I was going up behind that house. I think that is a bullet hole in that coat, and was made when I was going toward them and they were shooting at me with a pistol. All the shot wonnds I had were little shots except the ■one in my leg and foot. Don’t think I have any scars ■where the little shot hit me on my head, but I have on my body, but this was small shot. The coat has several snags; think it was torn before, am sure it had no hole in it besides those before that.' The train stopped at the station at Bainbridge about five minutes, and the trainmen came out of the caboose and walked up. Did not hear them say there was a hot box, but I looked at them up there and it seemed like they were putting something out. I did not get off the train, but just looked out of the door on the side next to the river. Nobody said anything to me up to that time. I saw the man that I paid the quarter to. The man I identified yesterday looks like the same man to me.”
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