Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-25
STUDENTS
DISMISSED
CULVER ACADEMY OF INDIANA,
SCENE OF LATEST HAzING
SCANDAL
WORE CULVER SWEATER
Student Subjected to Cruel Hazins Re.
stored to Consciousness With Diff.
Guilty Other DismissaIs From
Academy Are Expected Boy
Writes to Parents.

Cncago, NOV. 24.-The Culver Mill
tary academy Of Culver, Ind, is the
scene OF the latest hazing scandal
Eleven boys were dismissed from that
Institution yesterday as result of the
exposure of hazing administered last
Sunday to Cadets Fee and Harris of
Jefferson City, Mo. Captain Bucldng-
ham was reduced to private for COM
plicity in the affair.
Superintendent B. F. Fleet and the
other authorities of the academy are
guarding the affair zealously, but the
entire school and village is stirred to
the highest pitch Of excitement, for it
is not known how many other cadets
are to be dismissed. Cadet Fee, 1t Is
known, was handled SO numerically
by his fellows that he was restored to
consciousness with difficulty.
Boy Writes to His Parents.
The first details came out through a
letter received in Chicago by the par
ents of a student at the academy. The
boys name was not revealed through
fear that he also might be subjected to
cruel hazing. The letter reads:
,"The cadets of Culver Military acad.
emy hazed one of their fellow cadets
because he put upon sweater the
letters Culver which he had not
earned and was not allowed by the
rules among the boys to wear.
"They put him in a tub of ice cold.
water and put dry battery, with one
of the conductors In the water. Then
they made the cadet grasp the other
conductors. which was outside the
water and turned the battery on.
| The cadet could not let go. He was
unconscious for twenty minutes, and
only by vigorous rubbing was he
brought to life. Fifty cadets were
around and saw 1t. Five Of the ring
leaders have been dismissed. 1t hap
pened last Sunday afternoon. 1t came
near being like that Kenyon affair
which started out as joke and
turned out worse"
RingIeaders Are Dismissed.
The leaders in the plot which trap
ped the two boys are said to have
been Cadet Campbell, Cadet Cumph
rey, Cadet Porter, Cadet Bliss, and
Cadet Knighten. These boys, with
six others, have been dismissed, and
the discipline board of the academy is
not through yet, according to reports
last night
1t apears that Fee and Harris had
put on the letters, which signify hon
ors on the athletic field, before they
had played a sufficient number Of
games of football or distinguished
themselves in other ways necessary
to the strict code Of the cadets. They
had not worn the sweaters many days
Sunday afternoon they were strolline
on the. campus when they we're called
from one of the dormitory windows.
We want to see you," said the de
coy, said to have been Kirk Campbell
Walk Into the Trap.
| Fee and Harris, arm in arm. went In
nocently into the trap In the room
was q crowd Of boys, stern faced ant
silent. The victims were seized, blind
folded, and placed in closet, while
the board of inquisition passed judg
ment on the nature of the torture tt
be employed.
Fee was first. He was thrown int
the tub of water and in spite of hi!
pleading was forced to grasp the con
ductors which some ingenious electri
clan among the cadets has rigged up
1t was only after 1t was seen that hi
had tainted that any one lifted hand
to save him. After student remedies
had been exhausted and he did no
show signs of recovering . doctor wa.
sent for.
Let Harris OF With Kicks.
In the excitement over this Harri.
escaped easily. but he was knocked
down and kicked, receiving a severe
bruise in the abdomen. 1t was reported