The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-04
HAVING AT MANCHESTER
ITS EXISTENCE EXPOSED IN AN
ACTION FOR DAMAGES

Against Arthur Huntington
Brush for $5,OOO-AIleges That
In an Fort to Prevent the 'Pad-
dIing' of a Chum He Was Perma-
nently Injured by the Defendant.
Nothing could be more remote than
the institution known as hazing, from
the average layman's conception of
that severely, scholastic resort, Macal-
ester college, yet there came into court
yesterday one George Reese, a student
at Manchester, who demands from Ar
thur Huntingdon Brush, salve in the
sum of $4,000 for personal injuries al
legged to have been inflicted on the
plaintiff during the progress of haz-
ing that came off in the college a year
ago last January.
Reese is young man Of such ma
ture years that he brings action in his
own name. He is studying for the pro-
fession of a mechanical engineer. Brush
is the son of bonanza farmer. Reese
alleges in his complaint that he was
working at the profession of me-
chan1cal engineer at the time of the
assault, which he says Brush Is guilty
of; that he was then earning the sum
of $3.50 per day and paying his way
that, by reasons ,.of the injuring said
to have been inflicted by Brush, he has
been obliged to give up his work, and
is in a state of, chronic invaidlSm.
George E. Budd is the attorney for the
plaintiff, and D. W Doty is for the
defendant.
The facts in the case go to show that
the injuries received by Reese resulted
from an attempted hazing.
Ian 81 1897 Reese with chunl
named Ackerly. both Of them being re-
cent acquisitions from Hamline uni
verSity, were walking through one of
the halls of Macafestets when they met
number of students, among them be-
ing A. H. Brush. One, Of the old Mac
alester men said:
Here they are: let's paddle EN-"
Whereupon the crowd seized upon
Ackerly and Reese, and proceeded to
carry out the proposition. The insti-
tuition Of padding is not unknown to
boarding school boys, even at this day,
though it was some years ago banished
from penal institutions where it had
some vogue as medium for the cor
rection Of ''lifers'' and other criminals
who were not open to moral suasion.
The chastisement consists in the ap-
plication of a perforated board sone
inches in width to that portion of the
anatomy mOts susceptible to the inflic-
ton Of pain by such means.
Ackerly. fell first into the hands Of
the hazers, and there was something
of a struggle. Reese was not inclined
! to submit to the padding, and he ex-
postulated. Ackerly5 took; it in good
part, and was willing to submit, but
the protests of Reese, resulting in the
appointment. Of Brush as a committee
| to see to it that, he did not interfere
while. Ackerly was being treated.
Reese resisted and something of a
! fight followed, and it is not clear that
| he was padded. In the course of his
| struggles, he, it is claimed, suffered
a lesion Of the heart. Just what the
| nature of his injury was is not clear
but, in any event, it so affected him
| that his general health has suffered
and he has been incapable of any eff
fort requiring the exercise of muscular
| power since then.
Young Brush, as the man who was
holding Reese, is held responsible for
| the injury that he is alleged to have
sustained, hence the suit against him
| individually.