Connecticut western news., 1878-02-28
e HAzIya BY COLLEGE BOYS.
Trouble Between Students ut PrincetOns
 IL, Ending in n Very acriOus Bnttie'

Sophomore class Of 80, A. H. Atterbury of Trenton and J. B. Carter of Mont , clair, N. J., went to the room of fresh l man named Lane, and hazed him most
 unmercifully. He WAS stripped and spanked, his hair was cut, and he wns
 subjected to in1ignities whiGh his class
 mates determined to resent in the most
 summary manner The Freshman class
 held a meeting, and deputed eight of their number, together with two juniors,
 to wroak vengeance upon tho otfehding
 Sophomotes. Two were from New York,
 third from Illinois, fourth from Mis-
 souri, Q fifth from Maryland, and a sixth
 from the District of Columbia.
 At the close of lecture Garter and At
 terbury went to saloon on Nassau
 street to get some oysters. While they
 were gone the Ku-Klux," as they were
 called, blacked their faces, armed them-
 selves with revolvers, ropes, etc., and
 mounted cautiously to Atterbury s rooms,
 which arc on the second story of the
 Mansion House, fronting on Nassau
 street, and nearly opposite the college
 campus. Here they concealed them
 selves and waited for their victims.
 At about, II o'clock the two Sopho-
 mores returned, opened the door of the
 room and were instantancously seized,
 gagged and beaten. After being sub
 1ected to the usual hazing tortures, the
 gags were removed and the two victims
 were asked to sign a humble apology to | o1o for ,,o1t
 of it's members.
 "Sign, or it'll be worse for you" said
 the ringleader of the Ku-KluX, 0 tall,
 athletic fellow from Missouri, the star
 board stroke oar of the Freshman crew. "Ill be hanged if Til sign," respond ed Atterbury.
 "You can do your worst. you can't get anything out of me, replied Carter between his clenthed teeth
 The men were given two minutes by the watch in which to make up their m1nds, but they refused. Then the Freshmen gagged them again, and pro- cceded to scalp them in the most np- . proved Princeton fashion. Carter was stripped and spanked with paddle until Inc nearly tainted. Atterbury was served , in similar fashion, and then the two men were tied to two chairs and the pro- | | cess of shaving began. Their hair was cut off until nothing but waving top :, knot was left upon each, and not con- , , tent with this, their tormentors smeared
 thelr closelycropped heads with mucil-
 age. Then they poured water down 5 their backs, tied them hard, and ex- 's :. hausted their ingenuity ill devising new , methods of scalping, by which they could t : subdue their victims. The two Sopho-
 mores, however, stuck to their word, and
 the Ku-Klux were forced to retire, leav- y ing the Sorhomores gagged, bruised,
 and nearly half dead with exhaustion, V but still defiant.
 \. A friendly Freshman released them, and, hurrying on such clothing as they ; could lay hands on, they sailed out, car ,1 rying their revolvers and breathing the
 direst vengeance oil their prosecutors. !, In the hallway they discharged their V pistols as a signal to the neighborine if Sophomores, nnG then hurried on with out waiting for re-enfortements.
 The Ku-Klux had retreated up Cham h bers street, and had crossed again into D Nassau. At the University Hotel Car 70 ter and Atterbury caught up with them, l. and, levelling their revolvers, ordered n them to hnlt. The Ku-Klux continued st their retreat, and then Atterbury pulled ,r trigger on them. Quick as q flash the ,e masked men wheeled, and producing ,t several revolvers returned the fire T. A brisk fusillsde followed, in whicl ID the windows of tho astohisled burghers v in the vicinity were flung up and severa to heads in night caps protruded. T. Atterbury called ont to Carter, " Tn ye shot !' People began to appear on tho 10 scene, and the Ku-Klux, realizing that { l. night in jail might follow their sport III put up their weapons and scattered ,g Three of them were seen running across D. the college campus in the direction O k their boarding halls, while several others se were hurrying through different streets os A physician called upon Atterbury m and after carefully lAobiug extracted th' ,s ball. It had entered the left groin nen nv the femoral artery, and proceeded in 10 slanting direction through the flesh, ,e part of the hip. Had it gone quarte ,o of an inch on either side it would hay ,n severed the femoral artery and resulte, ,d fatally.
 is Atterbury is tall, pleasalt-lo looking fel se low of aboutninctecn. His wound paine ns him, but he thought he would be aroun ,c again in n week or two. The only dar i'll ger was that inflammation might set il m ill which case it would become serious on Both he and Carter persistently refuse ,d to give the names of the Ku-Klux, al pp though they know very we'll who they arc se "What will the faculty do with ther ia if they find them out?" asked the reporter ,ef "Expel them, I suppose. I don't SC nal how they can blame us for dolng whs no we did We were attacked and abuse ut outrageously, and we resented just 6 is anybody with any spirit would have don, no Besides, our pistols were loaded wit or blank cartridges only"
 mn It might have been an optical dclusio1 co but something very much like win rd quivered in Mr. Carters eye as he u ot tered the last sentence Then he adde sc to the question: "Did they kurt yo
 much ?"
 it "Well, they made it rather warm fc