The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-25
MR.. PAYNE'S WHISPERS
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE FACULTY
HOLDS THEY WE'RE NOT RAPED.
The Student. Lnid Up I'm "a Brooklyn
Hospital. Tells an Interesting and
Different story.

EASTON. Pa. Nov 2i.-The Lafayette
College faculty at its meeting tonight sus-
pended, sophomores Hern and Brown for
hazing freshmen three weeks ago. 1t also
found hat there had been no hazing in the
Payne whisker cutting affair as 1t was
learned that Payne willingly participated
IN IL.
Student Henry NJ Payne is now at St.
Mary's Hospital. in Brooklyn, having his
hand treated for blood poisoning. He says
IL was cut when the students were -raping
his beard last Tuesday In the BARRIERS chair.
His story of the affair published in Brook
lyn does not agree with the faculty's find
ing that he consented to the chopping of
his whiskers. He says the class of which
he is a member. the sophomore. was hav-
ing a picture taken when the cry was
started:
Now. Payne's whiskers must come off,
Il was taken completely by surprise" he
says. but but when the boys broke into a
refrain running. oh. me- Oh. my. How
well make those whiskers n.y.! L realized
sisted as best l could and began to defend
myself, but what could l do? | was going
to band practice. and had my cornet with
me. They took it from and threw me
down. and a dozen or two jumped on me.
They said L had to go with them TO the
barber shop, but i refused and then they
carried me. The rest followed. singing the
refrain.
lat the shop was thrown into a chair.
Some of them sat on my feet and others
ON my knees. while two of them held I'M, my
arms down at the side of the chair. Then
three or four of them took raZors and
started to cut off my beard. one dabped
soap into my eyes and mouth. while the
others were cutting at my beard. L felt
a sharp pain in one of my hngeTs ana knew
that | was cut.
THE barber was engaged in shaving
rctnr han ha nxr62 or
as the barber had finished his customer
had him make a clean job OF It, There
were then about three hundred students
outside the place. AS / went out they
grabbed me and paraded me ABOUT Coiiese
hill and back TO the campus; singing al
the time in chorus; , 20 mei aU on N.Y. no"
Finally we reached Pardee Hall and
made a decided stand. L said the joke mad
been carried too far AN, and unless the, .ney
made. They held me- though, until they
sang the class song with original words for
the occasion. and then let me go.
II went at once to a surgeon ana nad my
hand dressed and then consulted with the
faculty and the chief of police. Acting Ola
their advice, l swore out warrents 1or nVe
They were placed under arrest the next
day. but / withdrew the charge against
them"
Payne said he withdrew the charge on the
signing of an agreement that he would De
reinstated in all the college societies ana
clubs from which he had been expelled by
the students for causing the arrest Oh h'e
of their number.
The agreement stipulated that he should
be treated as If the affair had never oc-
Cured, but that night a mob of three hum
dred of them surrounded his boarding place
and yelled and hooted. His injured nand
began to swell and turn black, and, Tear
ing blood poisoning, he decided TO go 10
Brooklyn for treatment. The car on which
he rode to. the depot was surrounded, and
four officers with drawn revolvers had to
protect him. On reaching the depot the
mob created such trouble that the
officials telegraphed to PhillipsburS for
assistance and twenty Officers in the en-
ploy of the Lehigh Valley road were sent
over and drove the mob from the station.
Payne intended to have returned 10 the
college last Saturday. but he received a
dispatch from the president requesting him
to defer his return n few days on account
of the intense excitement The faculty.
the townspeople, the police and a minority
of the students are with him. Payne says.
and he proposes to return If ii becomes
necessary 10 have police protection in the
class room and at Rotations.
Payne is son of School Principal Payne.
of Southold l.. L., and is well known in
musical circles of Brooklyn.