The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-28
THE ROW AT PRINCETON COLLEGE.
Hazing and Observation-Disclosures and
SolhomoreH Exchanging thota.--HoW II

THE ROW AT PRINCETON COLLEGE.
Hazing and Observation-Disclosures and
ssseEhomoreH Exchanging Hhots---How 1t
A letter from Princeton, N. j., gives
the following account Of the shooting
affray, last week, between freshmen and
Sophumores, at Princeton College:
A week ago A. Ii. Atterbury, of Tren-
ton, end j. B. Carter, of Montclair, N. J.,
members Of Princeton College sopho.
more class, hazed a freshman named
Lane, cut his hair, and committed other
indignities ting. ed to q meeting Of the
freshmen class athletes, and decision to
resent the insult to their fellow member.
They called TO their aid two soplicmores,
who, with n 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 Ca ter went into q saloon, and
while they we're there the ten freshmen
blacked 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 IL o'clock
the two sophomores went TO the ROOM
They we're seized and gagged, their heads
shaved, and they were asked to sign an
humble apology for maItreating 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
sophclnores, and at length they were
forced to leave them gagged. The
sophomores were released, aud getting
hastily into their clothing grabbed re-
volyers and pursued. They discharged
O barrel apiece as signal to the other
sophomores, and then went on. They
overlook the freshmen ut the University
Hotel, and, leveling the weapons, called
on the freshmen TO halt. The order was
net obeyed, and Atterbury fired. The
freshmen wheeled, and producing re-
volvers, returned the fire. From ten to
twenty ahots were exchanged, and then
Attcrbury cried to Carter, "Tm shot,"
and fell. The freshmen scattered in all
directions, and were out of sight in O
twinkling. DIR. WikOf was got out of
bed, but he refused E., probe for the ball
by artificial light. Attcrbury was taken
TO his room, and thrOng of sympathiz-
ing classmates surrounded him. Tues
day morning tho 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 TO one aide it must have
severed all artery and resulted fatally.
AS it in the wound is very dangerous.
The college faculty held q meeting
Tuesday. President McCosh said after
wards that the guilty ones would he found
out and expelled from college. On
Thursday morning Ghe members of the
sophomore class were one by one called
before the college faculty. "Did you 20
to the depot Wednesday morning" was
asked. eyes, sir" was the answer.
did you take part in the effort to take
the freshmen out of the depot?" eyes,
Sir" 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," was
the immediate verdict, and the offending
sopL omore 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.
cerneG in the disturbances. The presi-
dent refused to give them, saying that
the college stood toward the student in
the. attitude OF parent. The college
had alreaGy punished fifty students, and
it u o'ild come of i'll grace to turn them
over to the authorities, The attorney
threatened to take the president before
the courtaId compel him to divulge the
names, but Mr.. McCosh replied that he
wouldn't tell before o court or anywhere
else. Tho attorney appealed to the pres
ident of the village, but that fnnctionary
refused to take action. Il 10 thought
that the prompt action of the faculty has
broken up the insurrection.
The interest that the disturbance has
excited throughout the country is we'll
illustrated by the scores of kilograms that
poured into Princeton Thursday from
anxious parents in all parts of the Uni
ted States, desiring to know whether
their aons were concerned in the troubles.
Some of these were sent to officers of the
co ,!ge, but the majority were sent direct
to the students. a sophomore received
q telegram from his father at IL o'clock
asking whether he wGs in the difficulty !;
Immediately telegraphed that he was
not; at l o'clock received his notice of
suspension. and ut $3.50 was on his way
home. There were many kilograms, too,
sent out of Princeton, most of them ask.
Ing foF funds by telegraph. Suspended
students whose homes are very distant
are not required to go all the way home
but none Of those who have been sent
away are allowed to remain nearer than
Philadelphia or New York.
"One of the Louisiana criminals has
been tfied and convicted. Tha Preai.