Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1908 — EVANGELIST IS HAZED [ARTICLE]

EVANGELIST IS HAZED

Through a Mistake Preacher Reed Haa Altercation with Students. Indianapolis, Dec. 15.—The Rev. C. Fenwick Reed, the evangelist, is in the Methodist hospital here under treatment for throat trouble, which he says, is due to the hazing intended for another which he received at the hands of De Pauw students in Greencastle. According to }iis statement, he had been sitting up the night of the attack under the advice of a physician to apply cloths to his throat, then somewhat swollen from a slight attack of quinsy. When his bell rang he went to the front door, but did not recognize the students in the darkness. One of them said: “A telegram for you,” and the preacher reached for it. As he did so, three pairs of hands grabbed him by the wrists and jerked him intp the yard, where the hazing turned into a free-for-all, with the pastor leaving bruises to mark his heavy blows. Later his jaws began to close and there were symptoms of his body partaking of the poison which had formerly only affected bis throat. He was forced to concel his engagements and has been under treatment since.