New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-02
COLLEGE STUDEN BLEEDING
UNEXPECTED ENDING OF A COLUMBIA
CELEBRATION.
THE YOUNG MEN DECLARE THAT THE POLICE
ATTACKED AND BEAT THEM-A DENIAL BY

THE YOUNG MEN DECLARE THAT THE POLICE
ATTACKED AND BEAT THEM-A DENIAL BY
TIE OFFICERS.
The triumph over mathematics" was celebrated
by the students Of Columbia College last evening
After the parade the young men went to the large
lot known as the Crimmns lot, at East sixty
eghth-st and Avenue A. There the boys. TO the
number OF about 200. built several large bonhres
Five police officers present 10 see that order
was maintained and that the students did not go
too far While the nres were blazing and the
noise was at its height the entire police reserve OF
the East Sixty -seventh-st. station, numbering
twenty-five men and under the command Of Ser
geant william c. Rice. descended upon the students
The attack was a surprise. The lot Is surrounded
BY a high fence. and the police closed the gate
when they entered IT, Then there was rush Tor
the fences The boys say that the police used
their clubs and beat many OF the students
The police made no arrests. and after they had
entered the lot the students had disappeared over
the fences The attack OF the police was Hade
about II o'clock. Soon afterward a number oil the
students who said they had been dubbed went
20 the station. angry at the manner IN "hlch they
had been treated Some OF them were bleeding
about the head and hands. and one Of them had a
bad cut on the wrist. These wounds, they said,
had been inflicted byAthe police. who had cornered
them and shown them no mercy. j. I. Nalehuhe'
a young student who lives In St Marks Place. was
so weak from the clubbing ne had reCeNeu ti"'
he could not stand and had 10 be carried 70 cao
by his companions and taken 10 his home
Sergeant Hussey received the complaints with
Indifference and told the boys that the only thing
for them to do was identify the officers VINO
clubbed them. This the students SAID was impos-
sible, as the attack was made In the dark =. 49,
After the first delegation Of students nad le,t .ns
station others appeared a.Ho cut ana oruiseu, d4.
made similar charges Of brutality. The pohce ..
the station refused 10 hear them. ana many shu'
the station doors declining 10 et them IN num-
Der Of those who persisted In going Up the statoh
steps were pushed away from the doors flhaIiy i
de,aN OF pO.ce was sent out from the Sauoh
against the students who fingered about nop'h6 ~
get some satisfaction. and the street was c.earel.
Sergeant william G. Rice against whom me com
plaints seemed to be most generally directed, was
se.n by n reporter. He said that the charge thlt
the police had clubbed the Students was ia,ss'
They had bulk severA. huge bonfires. and num-
Der Of complaints had been made az the station oy
citizens that the boys were making too much noise;
When the police appeared, the boys nad scattered
and run The injuries Of the students. the ser
gean, ead were no doubt received wnen they
numne,l over the fences The Sergeant was most
SSTnh TIC In DENYING the stories Ot clubbing.
e',Xio' NJ arrests we're made by the police and no
names OF any OF those who made complaints were
taken by the officer In charge. -
The students were angry, ana declared that com
nlaint would be made to Superintendent Byrnes To-
dov The students had a permit 70 occupy the
iot md IL IS said this had been shown 10 several
oticers who had asked them about II earlier In
Inc evening. Several kegs OF beer when had pseh
emptied by the students. were FOUND IN me lot.
There were also three rough collins. IN which were
ef,igies OF three college professors Ihese coHlhss
yers Daced on the bonnres and the students dahced
around them TN they had been reduced to ashes