BRANDED FOR LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9229, 17 June 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

BRANDED FOR LIFE.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF STUDENTS. Toledo, Ohio, April 21, 1893.—A brutal hazing took place in tho Ohio Wesley an University in Delaware last night. Tho university has several Greek aecrot societies, and their initiations of now members are generally carried on to the extreme of lawlessness. i The society held their meetings in the rooms of the girls. Last night while the five members wero holding a secret meeting in the bedroom of one of their members about midnight, nearly twenty of their classmates burst in upon them. A solution ot nitrate of silver had been obtained, and with this powerful caustic pictures and letters wore drawn upon tho fair bosoms and naked arms of the bevy of pretty damsels. Only by wearing high-nocked dresses and long sleeves can the disfiguring murks bo concealed. Tho caustic produced black scars and wounds upon the tender breasts of the girls. CRUELTY 0? THK MALE STUDENTS. The same night the male students resolved upon a hazing. Rivalry had long existed between thomemborsof" Signa Zeta No," the junior class fraternity, and tho "Delpha Omicron Alpha," tho sophomore fraternity. The junior class fraternity decided to initiate P. A. Wilson, a junior student, who had nob yob received his rank, and the sophomore class fraternity had also planned to initiate the same man. SURPRISED BY SOPHOMORES. Four juniors, with thoir initiate, wont to the Chi Phi Hall at about eleven o'clock to show him the mystoriosof the organisation. An hour later, whilo they were going through the most heated part of tho ritual, twelve muscular sophomores, having procured a key, bursb into the hall, pounced upon the little juniors and gavo them a terrible thrashing. The juniors foughb like tigers, but were knocked down one after another, senseless and bleeding. Then tho burly sophs began to inflict cruelties upon thorn. They stripped the juniors of their clothes and whipped them with ropes until they bled. Next they laid the juniors on the floor, tiod their hands and feet, and printed tho letters D.O.A. on their cheeks and chins with nitrate of silver and also drew little horns on their temples. BRANDED THEIR FACES. The caustic was allowed to stay on their faces until it had burned through tho skin, branding them like cattle. Not being satisfied with this cruelty, they stood the five young men up, and with hot shovels burned their bare baoks and legs into blisters. Four of the victims were then bound more securely than bofore and gagged, and left in the hall. They wero Bert. Rogers, M. W. Brown, Albert Austin, and 0. R. Harm. Tho other, Will. Wallis. was gagged, and taken some distance from the hall and tied in a stall with a cow, from which place he was extricated this morning. The others lay in the hall until a passer-by heard one of thorn groan, discovered their plight, and released thorn. They are confined to their bods to-day, and two are seriously ill. THEIR DISFIGURED FACES. The faces of the unfortunate young men aro horribly disfigured with the letters D.0.A., branded on each cheek and chin and the picture of horns on tho forehead. Thoir faces aro yellow and black and have the appearance of being tattooed. Before tho outrage the young men were but now their countenances are ruined. The five havo brought suit for $100,000 damages. Citizona of Delaware and those interested in the college wonder that outrages have been permitted to go on in the university without even an attempt being made to check them. HELD A HOST DANCE. About a hundred of tho students dressed in their night shirts went to Monnebb Hall, the young ladies' seminary, two months ago, howling and yelling and singing unbecoming songs in the presence of the young ladies. This was an outrageous performance, but nothing was done toward punishing the offenders. Another event was tho stealing of the college grade book. One of tho students broke open the door of tho room that contained the book, and after keeping the book a long time returned it. The faculty talked of offering a reward, but none was offered. They searched the fraternity halls' and made a big fuss, but whon the thief was found he promised not to repeat the offence, and is still in college. Tho college faculty have done nothing yet to punish tho perpetrators of the outrage, nor aro they likely to, because they are the sons of wealthy parents and stand well with the college authorities. The citizens of Delaware aro indignant and will take tho mattor in hand.