Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-09
OUT FOR A LARK
But the Professor Queered Their
Little Game.
Ladies' Carrying Ladders Get
Girls and Themselves Into
Trouble.


followed the escapade of Sunday
morning when between IL and /
O'Clock, FIVE young society men of
this city endeavored to take FIVE
young women students at Potter
College from the college building
and escort them to "duck" sup
per at local restaurant.
The young women were dismissed
from college at faculty meeting
the next morning and returned at
once to their homes.
Indictments we're returned
against the young men Thursday
by the Warren county grandjury,
charging them with assault with
intent to kill aud with committing
a riot.
The young meu are Floyd Nahm,
Harry Nahm, Willis Potter, Pleas
ant Potter and Roland Fitch. All
FIVE come of the most prominent
families in Bowling Green and go
in the most select society.
The young women meUtioned in
the indictment as the ones for
whom the young men came are
Misses Lena Hopkins, Bessie Simp-
son, Florence Cottrell, Bessie Boyer
and Ruth Haynes. None of them
live in Bowling Green.
The trial of the FIVE indicted men
will not take place 1atil the Sep
TENDER term of the Warren County
Circuit Court The charge of as
sault with intent to kill is a felony.
The charge of committing riot is
a misdemeanor.
Potter college is one Of the strict
est institutions of it's kind in the
country and the students are care
fully watched night and day.
The young men knew that they
would have to remove the young
women by stealth and went pre-
pared. They drove to the college,
which is on high hill South of the
city, in hack. With them they
took a ladder to be used by the
young women in leaving their rooms
on the second floor and at the west
end of the building.
They left the hack some distance
from the college building and APP.
preached it on foot, carrying the
ladder with them. They reached
the building beneath the window
from which they expected the young
women to. descend uudetected. The
ladder was placed against the wall
and the young women at once be-
gan to descend. Three of them,
Misses Hopkins, Simpson and Cot
trell, had reached the ground be-
fore the noise aroused any members
OF the faculty.
Before the fourth had descended
the length of the ladder, however,
DR.. b. f. Cabell, the president of
the college, appeared outside OF the
building with shotgun under his
arm. He at once opened FIRE on
the young men, intending. he says,
only to brighten them away. In
stead of running, however, the
young men DIRE " revolvers and re-
turned the fire. A number of shots
were exchanged without damage
before,the young men, accompanied
by the theree young women who
had succeeded in descending the
ladder before the discovery, entered
the carriage and drove away. The
other young women returning TO
their rooms.
The three missing girls soon re-
turned to the college.
DR.. Cabell tried to prevent the
affair from being known, but it
eaked out aud he was forced to
.estify before the grandjury. When
he indictments were returned he
vent to Frankfort to secure pardons
rom Gov, Beckham for the boys,
'ut was unsuccessful
Twoof the young men indicted |
ire grandsons Of the founder Of the
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