Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — DROPS PURDUE HAZING CASE [ARTICLE]

DROPS PURDUE HAZING CASE

Shoals Girl Dismisses Complaint Against Seven Former Students. Lafayette, Ind., June 10.—The famous Purdue hazing case will not come to trial. Setting forth that the health of Mabel Rogers of Shoals, the plaintiff, is so broken that she is unable to withstand the ordeal of the trial, a motion was filed in the Montgomery county court at Crawfordsville today for the dismissal of the case. The defendants are seven Purdue girls, all of whom have since been graduated. Mary Clark, one of the defendants, has died since the complaint was filed in 1915. Miss Rogers alleged that the defendants had mistreated, her in a Purdue dormitory; that they had painted her with red ink, stuck her with pins and thrown her into a tub of waler. She sued for $7,000. The case’was taken from here to Crawfordsville on a change o' venue.