The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-23
BROWN SOPHOMORES
kIDNAP FRESHMEN.
Five Lower Class Men Spirited Away
in an EndeavOr to Break Up
Annual Supper.

The sophomore class of Brown Uni
versity made an organized effort last
night TO break up the class supper of
the freshman class which is to be held
at one OF the assembly rooms i'm this
city this evening. Plans were made
to take all of the members OF the class
committee with the class officers. Two
men were taken from their beds in one
of the college dormltories last night by
number of sophomores and at a later
hour two other men were spirited
away. and 1t is said that there may be
other seizures before night.
The two men first kidnapped last
night are lying hand-cuffed, bound and
gagged in a barn somewhere in the
neighborhood of Red bridge, and the
two others are somewhere down the
bay in a sailboat, or by this time are
safe in farmhouse, where they will
remain until tomorrow morning. A
fifth, the toastmaster OF the class din
ner to be held tonight at Gelbs as
sembly rooms started for home yester-
day afternoon.
Just how he went or why he went is
not exactly known. but as three ro-
bust sophomores started on the same
train. the other members of the CLASS
OF '02 do not look for his attendance at
the supper. These five men are MEM
bers OF the class committee of arrange
ments and one of them is the class
president. 1t is said that the action of
the sophomores was largely brought
about by the elaborate 1 precautions
taken by the freshman To guard
o.. l..
taken them. Howard b. Grose, of We'll
lesley. Mass. toastmaster, has had a
body guard for the past few days. but
il is no fault of this guard that he is
now a captive.
Grose suspected trouble yesterday.
and in the afternoon he decided TO go
home for time. and he took the 4:30
train for Boston SO did three big
sophomores. but they kept out of sight
being In the last car, and II is believed
that IL was not long before Grose and
the three sophomores came together.
Clarence Van Bumsted. '03. of Jersey
City. one OF the members of the fresh
man supper committee, left his room,
University, 4S, last evening, to walk
to the home of a friend who had offer
ed him a bed and seclusion from the
madding crowd OF sophomores for the
night On Bowen street. Just as he was
passing dark place. Bumsted was
sawsr.s ssised and after T a short fight over
BOUND AND GAGGED.
He was soon bound hand and foot
and gagged and laid carefully away 10
delayed. for George r. Wolworth, of
Newton, Mass, wak the next prisoner
brought in. Both captives were placed
In carriage and driven to one of the
wharves. and were told that they were
to take a SAIL They were loaded into
a sailboat which then started down the
bay, and may be sailing yet. In quiet
place, where the excitement of class
suppers Will not disturb them. VOL
worth and Bumsted were to have been
allowed to spend today and tonight.
Then. after the tlass supper. they are
to be turned loose, to make their way
home az best they may.
Both OF these ceptives were taken
without noise or trouble. but the first
No. 96 George street, late in the even
ing. In this house, Alexander Abbott.
of Watertown, N ". the class presi-
dent. and william III. Hart. of Concord.
Mass. occupy quarters, having adjoin-
ing rooms on the second story. Other
freshmen room In the same house. Err
nest A. Saunders OF Somerville having
a room directly across from that OF
Abbott.
1t was shortly after 10 O'Clock last
night, when the sophomores entered the
house from the front and rear and
sneaked upstairs. Charles r.. Roland. a
freshman. whose room nearly adjoins
that Of Abbott. saw the party and he
began 10 yell. and his alarm was heard
within the radius OF about a mile At
that the soDhomores made n concerted
rush M the stairs and every one I'm the
building turned out to helm or hinder.
and there was what the late Charles
Lever. the novelist would have called
a most 'illigant foight."
DOORS WENT DOWN.
The doors of the rooms occupied by
Hart and Abbott went down with a