The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-28
THE ROW AT PRINCETON COLLEGE.

THE ROW AT PRINCETON COLLEGE.
Hazing and BIoodshed---Freshmcn and
Erded.
A letter from Princeton, n. Jy gives
the following account Of the ahootihg
affray, last week, between freshmen and
Sophomore, at Princeton College:
A week ago A. H. Atterbury, of Tren-
ton, and J. B. Carter, of Montclair, NJ,
members of Princeton College sopho-
more class, hazed a freshman named
Lane, cut his hair, and committed other
indignities that led to meeting of the
freshmen class athletes, and decision to
resent the insult to their fellow-member.
They called to their aid two sopEomores,
who, with a majority of The freshmen,
belonged to the Alpha Sigma Chi Socie-
ty. On Monday evening, after Q lecture
which all the students attended, After.
bury and Carter went into saloon, and
while they were there the ten freshmen
BACKED their faces and hid near the
room of the two men, on the second floor
of the Mansion House, nearly opposite
the college campus. About II o'clock
the two sophomores went to the room.
They were seized and gagged, their heads
shaved, and they were asked to sign an
humble apology for maltreating the
freshmen. "Sign it, or it will be worse
for you," said the leader. The sopho-
mores refused to do this, and the fresh
men again gagged them, daubed their
shaved heads with mucilage, stripped
them and spanked them with paddle
until Carter well nigh tainted with pain
but do what they might, they could ex-
tract nothing but defiance from the
sophomores, and at length they were
forced to leave them gagged. The
sophomores were released, and getting
hastily into their clothing grabbed re-
yolYers and pursued. They discharged
barrel apiece as signal to the other
sophomores, and then went on. They
overlook the freshmen at the University
Hotel, and, leveling the weapons, called
on the freshmen to halt. The order was
not obeyed, and Atterbury 6recl. The
freshmen wheeled, and producing re-
volvers, returned the fire. From ten to
twenty shots were exchanged, and then
Atterbury cried to Carter, "Tm shot"
and fell. The freshmen scattered in all
directions, and were out of sight in q
twinkling. DR.. Wikoff was got out of
bed, but he refused to probe for the ball
by artificial light. Atterbury was taken
to his room, and throng of sympatbiz-
| ing classmates surrounded him. Tues
| day morning the physician, after careful
probing, extracted the ball, which had
entered the left groin and in slanting
course into the hip. Had it been quar-
ter of an inch 10 one side it must have
severed an artery ard resulted fatally.
As it is the wound is very dangerous.
The college faculty held e meeting
Tuesday. President McCosh said after.
wards that the guilty ones would be found
out and expelled from college. On
Thursday morning the members of the
sophomore class were one by one called
before the college faculty. "Did you &c
to the depot Wednesday morning?" was
asked. "Yes, sir" was the answer
"Did you take part in the effort 10 take
the freshmen out of the depotw eyes
sir,n was the reply. "Did you stone the
train as it was moving OFF," eyes, sir
was again responded. "You are sus'
pended; you must go right home," wa,
the immediate verdict, and the offending
sophomore went to his room, packed his
trunk and was off in the next train
Thirty sophomores were suspended and
eight were dismissed. Two freshmen
were also given their walking papers
Added to the ten freshmen sent away
Wednesday this makes fifty. members Of
the college who have gone home.
Prosecuting Attorney Beasley called
upon President McCosh and demanded
of him the names of the students con-
cerned in the disturbances. The presi.
dent refused to give them, saying that
the college stood toward the student in
the attitude of a parent. The college
had already punished fifty students, and
it would. come of i'll grace to turn them
over to the authorities. The attorney
threatened to take the president before
the courtand compel him to divulge the
names, but Mr.. McCosh replied that he
wouldn't tell before a court or anywhere
else. The attorney appealed to the pres
ident of the village, but that functionary
refused to take action. 1t is thought
that the prompt action of the faculty ha.
broken up the insurrection.
| The interest that the disturbance has
excited throughout the country liz vel
illustrated by the scores of telegrama thai
poured into Princeton Thursday from
anxious parents in all parts of the Uni
ted States, desiring to know whether
their sons were concerned in the troubles
Some of these were sent to officers of tht
college, but the majority were sent direc
to the students. A sophomore received
telegram from his father at 12 O'Clock
asking whether he was in the difficulty
Immediately telegraphed that he wa!
not; at 1 o'clock received his notice o
suspension, and at $3.50 was on his way
home. There were many kilograms, too
sent out of Princeton, most of them ask
ing for funds by telegraph. Suspended
students whose homes are very distan
are not required to 80 all the way home
but none of those who have been sen
away are allowed to remain nearer thar
Philadelphia or New York.
zone of the Louisiana criminals ha'