The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-10-03
DENIES
That Her Students We're
Mixed Up In Poison Signs
Does Mrs. Name COndit
Formerly Of Mt. Vernon
Now PfGCGptrGSS At The
Baldwin University
Girl Students Hunt Clue In
"MOrgue' Mystery
"WaIlflOwer" Men Suspected
OF The Trouble
Cleveland Leader.)


Girl sleuths. boy sleuths and faculty
amateur detectives of two universities
have been unable to solve the poison"
mystery of the girls dormitory at
Baldwin Wallace college, at Berea.
Some time between midnight We'd
nesday and dawn Thursday the stone
front of Hulet hall was marred by un-
known vandals, who painted Poison"
signs with realistic pictures of skulls
and cross-bones, together with the fre-
quently repeated word "Morgue" on
the walk, the steps and the porch it.
self.
The letters and figures are made
with heavy brush and it is probable
they will have to be chiseled out of
the stone, thus more or less defacing
the building.
Miss Lucille Jenne, president of the
junior class; Miss Evelyn Van Rensse.
laer and Miss Ava Lilly, among the
most popular girls in Hulet hall, have
adopted the policy for their house of
refusing to suspect any one in partic-
ular and of denying the stories which
were first current that the girls had
paraded with a banner and had, at
least, aided and abetted in the disfig-
uring of the hall
When the glaring blood-red figures
were discovered, suspicion pointed ev-
erywhere. The rumor spread that the
girls themselves were guilty The 27
girls in Hulet hall and Mrs Name
Condit, the preceptress, emphatically
house were concerned.
The men students of German Wal
lace heard that they were suspected
And almost at once a general feeling
of enmity sprang up between the two
colleges that have been so closely al
lied as to have been almost one uni
versity for a number of years.
Everybody who owns brush or pot
of paint, all persons seen near the
scene of the crime for several days be-
fore it occurred are under suspicion.
The investigation has been baked
| at every turn. 1t is known that three
artists were at work. "Morgue" is
written four times with the NJ and the
g differently formed in each case ex-
cept in the scrawl on the outside of
the porch and at the doorstep itself.
This person was the boldest of all
and probably the most rapid worker.
1t is believed that the others worked
together, but that he, finishing his first
assignment sooner than they, and dec
Grating it with other scrolls and few
helter-skelter bones for good measure,
advanced daringly on to the porch to
| the whispered cheers of his compan.
ions and made his mark there also.
The three types of skulls differ
vastly, 1t might be possible to draw
some psychological conclusion from
their varying shapes and by looking
for the possessors of correspondingly
shaped heads, find the culprits. But
this is work for phrenologists.
The attitude of the faculty and OF
Mrs. Condit and the girls themselves
is very dignified. They do not accuse
any one. They will not suspect any
one. 1t certainly was not done by the
girls. And there is great reluctance
to believe that any students in Bald
win or German-Wallace are RESPONSE
BILE.
Six years there was society called
"the Morgue" and it's banner bore q
skull and crossbones and it was sup
posed to mean poison. This society
was formed when there was practical
ly no admittance for any men at Hulei