The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-22
BRANDED WITH NITRIC ACID
Ohio Wesleyan Students Take Terrible
Revenge on Several Juniors.
Five Sigma Nus Bound and Burned in the
Face, While Twenty OF the Girls Treat o
Half Dozen Fair Sisters TO Similar Dose.

DELAWARE. O.. April 21.-Further details
of the scandalous hazing of five Sigma
Zeta Nh fraternity members of the junior
class at the Ohio Wesleyan University
Wednesday night have come to light. and
serve TO stamp this lates: piece of student
outrage as one of the worst over perpe-
trated in the country. The Sigma Zeta M
exists only in the junior class,
and the hazing was at first
given out as the work of q dozen sopho-
mOres. members of sub rosa fraternity,
the Delta Omicron Alpha. Many severe
practical jokes have been played during
GLASSES took part. On Wednesday evening
Percy Wilson. of Chattanooga, Tenn.
was 20 be initiated into the
junior frat" ana Ora e. Horn, Of
Dayton, Burt Rogers. of Coshocton.
Albert Austin, of Chattanooga. Tenn. and
w. Burt Brown. of this city, were doing
the work. when the doors to their chapter
hall were burst open aud she gang Of
hazers rushed in, overpowerod the juniors,
and, taking one at time proceeded TO
brand them on the faces with nitrate OF
silver. The three Greek letters. ID. y. A"
roughly burnt on their foreheads with the
acid. The boys attempted to rub of the
caustic. but only made their injuries worse.
Several of them Will be marked for life.
They were all strong. handsome fellows.
and Austin was q cousin of Professor Aus.
tin, of the institution.
To-day another phase of tho hazing came
out. showing that. while the boys were
marking the junior males, the girls were
administering q similar dose to mum Der
M a ia m n
Some of the young students at Monett
Hall, belonging to the university. caught
the hazing craze. and fell on their sister
schoolmates. About twenty young
women got strong solution OF nitrate
of silver and proceeded to brand
six or seven of their school friends on their
nocks, breasts, arms and hands Tor the pur-
pose, 1t is claimed. of SO dtsfgurinG them
dress at the senior reception last evening.
They lay in wait for them until after mid
night. when the girls were returning from
their society meeting THIS oc-
Ssgs COUPLED sns w mss the ssuaenss
has added fuel to the excitement Some of
the students last evening set one of the
frame buildings on the college campus on
IRE. and it was destroyed.
The fact has developed that the students
who laid the branding to the boys were not
s0phomores. but an aggregat on of sluggers
elected from the lower CLASSES. One of the
number. Mickey Harold. 10 not q student
at all. having graduated last year.
The others are Holly Farrar. of London. o.;
Waite Phelas. of Mechanicsbure; Sumner
WEIGH of this city. son of DR.. G. Welch;
Harry Belt. of Kenton. O.. son of Rev. l..
A. Belt; Will 1nnis. of Columbus; Walter
Evans, of Gambia, o.; Will Norman. of
South Charleston, O.. and Pete Adams.
of Highland, o. All of these are
members of the ID. o. A., which
is not chartered fraternity. The
five young men who were bound with
ropes, burned with redhot shovels on their
backs and branded on each cheek. chin and
forehead with the letters ID. o. A. with a
strong solution of nitrate of silver put on
after scratching the flesh with sharp
pointed sticis, are Joe b. Rogers, w. Is.
Brown and +. c. Wilson. of this city:
Orlando e.. Harm, of Dayton. and
Albert NJ. Austin. OF Chattanooga. Tenn.
All the nine students were arrested this
morning and taken before the Mayor.
Their cases were continued until April 81.
and they were released under bond OF $500
each. A civil suit was commenced this
afternoon by the victims of the brandin q
for 100000 The faculty Of the Ohio Wes-
leyan University will hold q session to in
Yestigate tie outrage.