Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-27
THE CORNELL AFFAIR.
Resolutions Passed Condemning All Sort,
of Disorderly Conduct and Expressing
Regret For the Tragedy - Guilty Stu.
dents Must Soon BE Apprehended.


ITHACA, n Y, Feb 27-The conviction
is rapidly gaining ground here that the
authors of the chlorine gas tragedy at the
Cornell freshmen's annual banquet last
Tuesday ca9not much longer be shielded
from justice.
That their names are we'll known not
only to many of their classmates, but to a
few outside the university, cannot be
doubted, but at last influences are at work
that cannot fail to effect their detection be-
fore many days have passed. Their i'm,
munity hitherto has been due primarily to
the laundering of the CITY authorities ut
the very outset of the inveS;iI cation, and
also to strong feeling among large pOr-
ton of the townsr >Ople that on sentimental
and business considerations it would he as
we'll to let the matter drop.
As matters now stand, all the evidence
points to the theory that d strong effort is
being made by the men concerned and
their friends to postpone further investi-
cation, while influences are set in motion
with view to some sort of Il settlement.
Interest continues to center in the where
abouts of Carl L. Dingens, who is said to
have fled the town the morning after the
tragedy. RumOrs have been started daily
that he was about to returu and his room
that he would arrive last night
a meeting of the faculty was postponed
for some unknown reason, at which it was
said that orders We're to have been ISSUED
to all the professors to ascertain what
members of their CLASSES We're missing and
the reason of their absence. 1t is expected
that the roll will be called, bat it is said
that the names of all the abs .ntcrs cannot
be learned for two or three days.
The only city official who has so far
shown a full determination to probe the
matter to the bottom at whatever cost is
District Attorney Jessum Jennings. Mr..
Jennings was so dissatisfied with the pre-
cipitate manner in which the coroner's in
quest was conducted that he withdrew
from the proceedings and instituted dis
tinct line of investigation, which he hopes
will yield important results y serious
mistake, Mr.. Jennings says, WAS made in
holding a public inquiry and examining
the citizens not only i'll the presence of one
another, but of a body of about 500 stu
dents, many of whom, he thinks, were in
ter@sted in snppressing the inquiry.
Il am going ahead quickly" said Mr..
Jennings, land l already have secured
much valuable evidence. If | had been per
mitted to examine the witnesses privately
and separately, have no doubt that | could
have cleared up this unfortunate affair in
one day When | saw how matters were
going, | simply withdrew, but when the
grand jury meets on March II | shall have
some solid evidence for it to consider. do
not propose to release the jury until all
sources of evidence have been exhausted"
Students Pass Resolutions.
The biggest students meeting that the
university has ever seen was held in ths
basement of the library in response to a
call of the four class presidents-A. +.
Weber, senior; John Witherson, n jun
ior; +. A. Bennett, a sophomore, aud f.
l.. Aldrich, freshman.
Resolutions We're passed expressive of re-
greet and disavowal of the act as inspired
by any particular class or by the college as
a whole, but objection was made to Il reso-
luton that the students would aid the au-
thorities in detecting and convictins the
guilty, and it was finally passed in modi-
fled form.
A resolution that the freshman banquet
be discontinued met with vehement oppO-
sitiOn, and a substitute was finally passed
that in future the banquet be held under
the protection of the three classes In
spite of this the faculty is said to he deter
mined to place it's interdict on the banquet.
The fate of "rushes" and sim . rintouS
proceedings was sealed by the passage of a
resolution forbidding irregular and i'm
proper contests of all kinds, and the ath-
letic council was empowered to establish
athletic contests by which the supremacy
of the sophomore and freshman classes
might be officially determined without
peril to life.
The coroner's inquest will be continued
on Thursday. The trustees of the uni
versity passed resolution authorizing tho
coroner to draw upon them for $500 for the
employment of detective.