Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1915 — Girl Who Was Hazed Asks Change of Venue. [ARTICLE]

Girl Who Was Hazed Asks Change of Venue.

Lafayette, Ind., March 2.—The damage suit of Mabel Rogers against seven former girl students of Purdue university, whom she accuses of having hazed and injured her when she was a stuednt there, will not be tried jin Tippecanoe county. Her attorney, Frank Kimmel, yesterday afternoon asked for a change of venue, charging that on account of the university’s influence the plaintiff could not have a fair trial. The defendants in the action for damages in the sum of $7,000 are Mary Clark, Ruth Cowan, Agnes Phillips, Esther Kisner, Helen Lee, May Blue and Mary Sheridan. The incident occurred in January, 1914, and all the parties involved in the legal controversy have sinsg left college. In the new paragraph of the answer the defendants aver they compromised the case with Miss Rogers prior to the time of filing the complaint Damages were fully paid, the answer alleges. The case was to have come to trial next Monday.