Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1920 — THIS YOUNG MAN HUNTS BIRD NESTS AT NIGHT [ARTICLE]

THIS YOUNG MAN HUNTS BIRD NESTS AT NIGHT

'Lafayette, Ind., March 11.— Residents of the Highland Park neighborhood, the exclusive residence district of the city, were awakened early yesterday when two citizens living, in South Ninth street saw a man in a tree overhanging the front porch of Peter Duffy’s home. Mrs. Duffy was first aroused and she called her husband, who ran outside the house to catch the supposed burglar. . Dr. D. C. Barhill, who served in the overseas forces as a dental surgeon, lives next door and he, too, was aroused. Mr. Duffy and Dr. Barnhill pointed shotguns at the man who descended and said that he was a student from Purdue University and that he had climbed the tree to dislodge an old bird nest, that being part of his fraternity initiation. - He was dressed m old clothes and did not look like a student. ' . V. Just as the young man was about to be turned over to the police several other students appeared and explained that they all ’belonged to a fraternity which was initiating its pledged men prior to the formal initiatory exercises the first of April. The man who was found in the tree had been told to go to the scene and, armed with a long pole, get possession of a ’bird nest that hung from the end of a l™b. It who his ordeal to find the n4st in the darkness and dislodge it