Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-25
IN. Y. Sun, Feb. 90

N. Y. Sun, Feb. 20.
About week ago, two members of the
Princeton College sophomore class of 80,
A. H. Atterbury of Trenton, and j. B. Car
ter of Montclair, N. j., went to the room of
freshman named Lane, and hazed him
most numerically. He was stripped and
spanked, his hair was cut, and he was sub
jected to indignities which his classmates
felt called upon to resent in the most sum-
mary manner. The freshman Glass; that of
81, is unusually large, containing upward of
ITO members, many of whom are specially
noted for strength. The most active mem
bers of the class held meeting and deputed
eight of their NUMBER together with two
juniors, to wreak vengeance upon the Offend
ing sophomores. The majority of the fresh
men and both the juniors belonged to the
Alpha Sigma Chi secret society, an organiza-
ton that the faculty supposed had been
broken up, but which appears to have main
tanned a lively and fourishing existence.
The men selected were among the most pow
erful of their class, and numbered several
who were distinguished in the athletic exer-
cises of the college. Two were from New
York, third from Illinois, fourth from
Missouri, fifth from Maryland, and sixth
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On Monday evening DR.. F. M. Otis lectur-
ed on "Health'' in the college chapel. 1t had
been whispered about that the injured fresh
men intended to resent the insult in signal
and terrible manner, but the assemblage dis
persed without any signs of tu1nult. At the
close of the lecture Carter and Atterbury
Went to a saloon on Nassau street to get some
oysters. While they were gone the ''Ku-
Klux,' as they were called BACKED their
faces, armed themselves with revolvers,
ropes. &C., and mounted cautiously to After
bury's rooms which are on the second story
OF the Mansion house, fronting on Nassau
street, and nearly opposite the college cam
pus. Here they concealed themselves and
waited for their victim.
At about II o'clock the two sophomores
returned, opened the door of the room, and
were instantaneously seized, gagged, and
beaten. After being subjected to the usual
hazing fortunes, the gags were removed and
the two victims were asked to sign humble
apology to the Freshman class for maltreat-
ing one of its members.
Sign. or it'll be worse for YOU said the
ringleader of the Ku-Klux, tall, athletic
fellow from Missouri, the starboard stroke
oar of the Freshman crew.
''I'll be hanged if I'll sign responded At
terbury.
''You can do your damnedest, you can't
get anything out of me- replied Carter be-
tween his clenched teeth.
The men were given two minutes by the
watch in which to make up their minds. but
they refused. Then the freshmen gagged
them again, and proceeded to scalp them in
the most approved Princeton fashion. Car
ter was stripped and spanked with paddle
until he nearly tainted. Atterbury was
served in similar fashion, and then the two
men were tied to two chairs and the process
of shaving began. Their hair was cut off
until nothing but a waving topknot was left
upon each, and not content with this, their
tormentors smeared their closely cropped
heads with mucilage. Then they poured
water down their backs, tied them hard, and
exhausted their ingenuity in devising new
methods of scalping, by which they could
subdue their victims. The two sophomores,
however, stuck to their word, and the Ku-
Klux were forced to retire, leaving the soph-
ignores gagged, bruised, and nearly half
dead with exhaustion, but still defiant.
friendly freshman released them, and,
hurrying on such clothing as they could lay
hands on, they sailed out, carrying their re-
volvers and breathing the direst vengeance
on their prosecutors. In the hallway they
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neighboring sophomores, and then hurried
on without waiting for reinforcements.
The Ku-Klux had retreated up Chambers
street, and had crossed again into Nassau.
At the University hotel Carter and Atterbury
caught up with them, and, levelling their re-
volvers, ordered them to halt. The Ku-Klux
continued their retreat, and then Atterbury
pulled trigger on them. Quick as a flash the
masked men wheeled and producing several
rcvolyers returned the fire.
A brisk fusilade followed in which the
windows of the astonished burghers in the
vicinity were flung up and several heads in
night caps protruded.
Atterbury called out to Carter, I'm shot!''
People began to appear on the scene, and the
ku-Klux, realizing that night in jail might
follow their sport, put up their weapons and
scattered. Three of them were seen running
across the college campus in the direction of
their boarding halls, while several others
were hurrying through different streets.
The wounded man was taken to DR.. WIKI
offs, opposite the hotel, but that surgeon
not caring to probe for the ball by gaslight,
allowed the patient to be taken to his room
at the Mansion House. There throng of
was hours before the wounded man succeeded
in getting any rest.
In the morning the physician called, and
after careful probing extracted the ball. It
had entered the left groin near the femoral
artery, and proceeded in slanting direction
through the fleshy part of the hip. Had it
gone quarter of an inch on either side it
would have severed the femoral artery and
resulted fatally.
Atterbury's father and mother were sum-
moned by telegraph from Trenton. and every
effort made by the college authorities to hush
the matter up.
meeting of the faculty was held late in
the day, at which DR.. McCosh presided. He
afterward refused to say ANYTHING on the
subject beyond the fact that rigid investi-
cation would be made and the guilty ones
expelled from college.
A San reporter visited the rooms of the
two hazed students in the Mansion House
yesterday. Atterbury, tall, pleasant-look
ing fellow of about 19, was tossing uneasily
in bed. His wound panied him, but he
thought he would be around again in week
or two. The only danger was that inflam
nation might set in, i'll which case it would
become serious. Both he and Carter per
sistently refused to give the names of the
ku-Klux. although they know very well who
they are.
s:What will the faculty do with them i
they find them out?" asked the reporter.
''Expel them, suppose. don't see how
they can blame us for doing what we did
We were attacked and abused outrageouslv
and we resented just as anybody with an,
spirit would have done. Besides, our pis
tolls were loaded with blank cartridges only
It might have been an optical delusion
but something very much like wink quiy
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