The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-22
COLORED a. & M. COLLEGE
An investigations or CHARGES
AGAINST THE FACULTY.
II Turns Out That a Mountain Has Been
Made Of a Very Small
Mole Hill.

Greensboro, N. c., Feb 81. Especially
At 10 o'clock to-day the investigation
of the charges brought against DR.
Dellinger, professor of chemistry, and
DIR. Crosby, president of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, was be-
gun. All members of the board of
trustees were present except Mr.. Nc
Clure. Judge John Gray Bynum APP
peared for DIR. Crosby, and Il. A. John
son, OF Raleigh, for DIR. Dellinger.
President Keogh suggested that as
President Crosby had made no specific
charges against DIR. Dellinger, that the
latter should make the opening state
ment.
1t is well-know to your readers the
nature Of the charges and counter
charges in this case, and it is unneces-
sary for me to go over that. There had
been more or less friction among GER
tain members Of the faculty, so at the
regular meeting of the board some
months ago this matter was investi-
gated, and DIR. Crosby becoming very
angry, made charges of gross immor-
ality against DIR. Dellinger, who made
equally serious counter charges.
DR.. Crosby stated to-day, on being
asked as to those charges, that he had
heard from various sources that DR.
Dellinger had compromised bastrady
case in Raleigh.
DIR. DelsingeP on his part stated that
while a physician IA Raleigh he had att
tended the girl, Maggie Haynes, profess
sionally, but it was foolish to charge
him with being intimate with her for
reasons any physician could appreci-
ate, the woman being a dirty Stating.
As to having compromised the case,
he had put the matter i'm the hands of
his attorney, and while he (Dellinger)
had urged fight all the time, yet as
his attorney had advised him to COM
promise he had at last agreed to leave
the matter to him and he had sent
him check for $50 to do as he saw fit
with.
Dispositions were here introduced
from number of prominent colored
men, who had attended Shaw UNIVERSE
ty and had known DIR. Dillinger well,
speaking in the highest terms of him
and stating their unbelief in the charge
Of intimacy with the Haynes girl,
whom they had known to be a miser-
able liar and abandoned woman
A witness named Dr.Geringer, was
also introduced and corroborated the
foregoing. Other witnesses were pres
ent on the same line, but the directors
thought DIR. Deliinger had been fully
exhonorated on that score.
The next case was the charge made
by DIR. Crosby that sleeping car por-
ter had brought him n letter while he
and Dellinger had been teaching in Sal
isbury, in which a former pupil had
charged the latter with abandonment.
DIR. Dellinger stated that he remember
ed the letter but that it was only such
a letter as a woman might write to
a friend for having ceased to visit her
and he produced letters from the wo-
man, now the wife of a well known
colored preacher, in which she denied
having intended to imply seduction
on the part of DIR. Dellinger and i'm the
same letter she accused DIR. Crosby of
attempted rape on two occasions.
This testimony was met by DIR.
Crosby by another letter from the
same woman in which she denied ever
having charged Dir. Crosby with at
tempted rape and on the other hand
spoke of him in the most friendly
erms. This letter was written about a
week after the letter to Dellinger. DR.
Crosby also introduced depositions
from other prominent colored people
in the State who had known the wo-
man and DIR. Crosby and who testified
that the woman had always spoken in
the highest terms of him.
Another charge against DIR. Dellin-
ger for eoncealing the birth of child,
said to be that of a woman who had
attended the A. and M. College,was TAX
en- up but there was not the slightest
sort Of case against him as far as the
committee went. At this point the
committee adjourned until tomorrow.
So far it looks to your correspondent
that very large mountain has been
built out of mole-hill.
Asheville. N. C., Feb. 21.--Advices to-