The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-18
WILL PAY FOR THEIR SPORT
IWO STUDENTS TAkE SNOW no
IHEIR ROOMS IN WALL STREET.

, THEIR ROOMS IN W4LL STREET.
They Snowballed Citizens and Were Ar.
rested-Patrolmen Were witnesses to tn,
Affair.
Yale students are seldom discriminat-
ing in the selection of their subjects
or targets when there is any FUN" to
be had, but they are even less so when
there comes such a opportunity to enjoy
themselves as was afforded them by the
recent fall of snow. There has been
more or less snoWballing Of each other
and of the citizens since Monday, when
there came enough snow to make what
the boys call snowballs, but what the
victims think are grapeshot. Yester-
day, however, two of the sons of Eli let
their love of sport get away with
their discretion. They took a large
box OF snow up to their room
at 107 Wall street. The men are Ham
ilton f. Benjamin and Burnet Il. Rug
giles, and they are now out on bonds
to appear this morning in the city
court.
The enterprising youngsters Sc
lected students at first, but this was
too tame, and soon the unwary and I'M
thinking passerby had to dodge mis-
siles 1t was great sport to see him
look to the right and to the left and
then toward the clear sky, as if he ex
pected to see them drop from the
heavens.
A complaint was sent to the police
station and Patrolmen Curran and
Hoffman were detailed in citizens
clothes to investigate the case. They
soon had ocular evidence of what was
going on for they had not been station
ed in the street but 81 short time when
two nicely rounded and symmetrical
snowballs came sailing through the air
aimed successfully at Frank NJ. Hunt
ley.
The students We're easily and quickly
arrested and taken to the central po-
lice station Attorney auckland APP
peared for them, and at his solicitation
Harry w. Asher gave bonds in $500 for
their appearance in court.
Attorney auckland last evening re-
lated a rather amusing experience
which occurred at police headquarters
when the boys were brought in. 1t
seems that at about $50 yesterday af-
ternoon a young man, probably a friend
of the two arrested students, called at
Mr.. Buckland's Office and after telling
of the occasion of the arrest asked Mr.
auckland if he could do something for
the Gagged students. Mr.. auckland at
once went over to police headquarters
and offered to give bonds for the two
boys arrested, but the sergeant at the
desk, evidently thinking he was invest
ed with judiciary powers, refused to
admit them to bail. Mr.. auckland
asked if the students We're intoxicated
and the sergeant answered that they
were not, but that he proposed to keep
them shut up and make an example of
them, and said that he would not admit
them to bail, even if President Dwight
himself offered it. The sergeant finally
asked that real estate be given as bond
for the boys, but Mr.. auckland quietly
drew from his pocket $500 in cash. This
the sergeant would not accept and said
that he would not admit the students
to bail unless real estate bonds were
offered before o'clock last evening.
Mr. auckland went out and at 4:55 re-
turned with Attorney Harry W. Asher,
who offered real estate. Even then the
sergeant was reluctant about admitting
the students to bail and did not make
out the necessary papers until nearly
o'clock.
Mr.. auckland stated that the sergeant
said that he wanted to keep the stu
dents locked up and punish them in
that way, as he said that when they
were taken into the city court the judge
would not punish them sufficiently.
Mr.. auckland said he was much sur
prised, not only at the reflection on the
judge made by the sergeant, but by the
assumption by him of judicial authori-
ty, and said last evening that he pro-
posed to refer the matter to the board
of police commissioners.