Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1909 — WAS STINTSON THE VICTIM OF HAZING. [ARTICLE]

WAS STINTSON THE VICTIM OF

HAZING.

Strange stories are afloat regarding the cause of the death of Chas. Stintson, a student in the Hopewell school in West Point township. It is alleged that this school has been one of the “bad” schools and recently a teacher was placed in charge of it who brought the unruly members under control. They fancied that Charles Stintson, a slenderly built boy, was the cause of their downfall and proceeded to haze him by hanging him up in a sapling by his feet. The stories go that he hung suspended there for more than two hours and was insensible when taken down. Stintson died on the 11th of this month with what was diagosed by his attending physician .as cerebro spinal meningitis. Now it is alleged that the start of the disease was in the alleged hazing. ’The affair seems to be shipuded in mystery. Some near neighbors of the family allege that there is no truth in the hazing story while others just as strongly assert that there is. It is also stated that the grand jury is investigating the affair, but there is no grand jury at the present time. % The story of the alleged hazing has appeared in Chicago and Indi-

anapolis dailies and in various country papers.—Montlcello Journal.