Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — PURDUE GIRL SUES SEVERAL STUDENTS [ARTICLE]

PURDUE GIRL SUES SEVERAL STUDENTS

Alleges That She Was Permanently Injured When Other Girls Hazed Her—Asks >7,000. * . ''B’ .• v *;>'' Lafayette, Ind., April 2.—Miss Mabel Rogers, a freshman in the domestic science course at Purdue university, yesterday brought suit In the superior court against seven girl members of the senior class. Miss Rogers charges the defendants with being, responsible for personal injuries received in hazing stunts of January, 1914. The plaintiff avers that the seven young 4omen, Mary dark, of Indianapolis; Mary Sheridan, of Attica; Esther Kisner, Terre Haute; Agnes Phillips, Monroeville; May Blue, Star City; Helen Lee, Oxford; Ruth Cowan, of Chicago, enteral her room in the ladies’ hall building on the evening as she was preparing her lessons and forcibly took her from the apartment, removed her clothing, painted her chest, back, neck and face with redink. That the defendants poured a bottle of muscilage on her and pricked her with pins in order to make her submissive That the final abuse consisted of a forcible submersion into a tub of water. Miss Rogers in her complaint states that she was ill at the time of the hazing and that she so informed her captors but that such information in no ways caused them to desist. She alleges that the extreme treatment so affected her as to make hospital treatment necessary and that she was rendered unconscious and hysterical from the abuse suffered at the hands of the defendants. The plaintiff further avers that the hazing was the result of a conspiracy. She claims that her sight has been injured by the sudden and extreme exposure in water when she was ill. That her college career has been seriously affected and that she has lost six weeks of school, because of the injuries sustained. That she has suffered insomnia since that time. Miss Rogers, who is an orphan residing at Shoals, has retained Frank Kimmel, of this city, and H. McCormick, of Shoals, as attorneys and asks damages in the sum of $7,000.