Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-11-02
IS
FATAL TO BOY
Kenyon College Student, Bound
to Railway Track, is
Killed
is CRUSHED BY TRAIN
Members offraternity Leave Candidate
on Bridge to Try His Nerve. May
Be Prosecuted.

Gambler o., Nov. 2-Evidence
accumulating to show that Stuart [
P1erson, the 17-year-old freshman a
Kenyon College who was killed by
train ON railroad bridge Saturda
night while awaiting initiation int
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
did not fall asleep, but was tied t
the track by the members of the fra
ternity.
Buried beneath culvert 200 fee
from the spot where he was groun,
to death by the train, the authoritie
have found three lengths OF bloc,
stained rope and a wad of absorben
cotton, also saturated with blood.
County Prosecutor Stillwell express
es a firm belief that the boy wa
chloroformed and then tied across
the tracks as part of the initiation
ceremony into the college fraternity
Stillwell says he has several person.
under surveillance.
| Police at Work.
| Coroner Scarborough of Mount Yer
non, Coroner Cameron OF Cincinnati
and two members of the Cincinnati
police force working on the case de
clare the boy was tied on the track
and the committee of the fraternity
which put him there and left him
helpless may be arrested charged with
his murder.
That former initiatory ceremony
included the tying of b'indfolded
candidate on a spur track, from
where he heard the approach of q
train on the main line in terror until
he tainted in fear, has been ascertain
ed by Coroner Scarborough.
Coroner Scarborough says that on
Persons right wrist and left ankle
are marks which undoubtedly were
made by rope. In the wrist the ra
dius bone is pushed up in such q
manner as to make it seem that the
pressure OF the rope, augmented by
the boys struggles to free himself, haG
displaced the bone. There are no 9th
er injuries on either the right arm OF
the left leg to indicate the mark.
were made when he was thrown by
the engine.
Coroner Scarborough did not return
to Mount Vernon last night, but is still
gathering evidence about the body's
condition and has decided to hold an
inquest to determine whether the fra
ternity committee shall be held on a
charge of causing Persons death.
Killed BY Special.
While the regular train runs over
the bridge at Gambler at $40 there
was a special train on Saturday night
on another track, and the coroner says
the evidence is that it was the spe
cial which killed Pierson, thus lending
color to the supposition that he was
tied to track on which the students
did not know train was to pass.
| N. E. Pierson, the boys father, who
was at Gambler on Saturday night ini
tiating another student into the same
fraternity, of which the elder Piersor
was a member twenty-five years ago
scouts the idea his son was tied tC
1.-The track, but the coroner says it will
be made a subject for an inquest tt
determine. Coroner Scarborough says
lhe learned that early on Sunday morn
ling a party of young men went to the
scene of the accident and with broomS
and buckets cleaned up all traces o.
the tragedy.
Tells of Similar Case. 4r
Coroner Scarborough is we'll verset
in student pranks. In speaking OF the
basket young Pierson had the coroner
said:
"I do not know what was in the
basket, but | do know that some stu
dents are made to buy rope, razor, cot
lton, chloroform, and cigarets, and car
Iry them all in basket to the place
of meeting. What the rope is used fol
Ii do not know, but it has been sai(
the students use it to lead the candl
date back to the college. The chloro
form might be used to put some one
to sleep.
81 know of case in which the can
Ididate was blindfolded and tied to
spur track. He was left there alone
and when a train came along he wal
frantic. He thought he was on tn
main track, and looked for death sure
lily to overtake him. To call for hell
was all he could do, for he was tight
ly bound and his eyes closed witt
bandages. When found he had faint
ed and was lying helpless on tn
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