1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 219there been an instance of the kind known. Barber, the Kenyon freshmanwho is quoted as having testified to such treatment, never made such a statement.Second—The members of the A K E fraternity did not make inquiryfrom the station agent about the train schedule for that night.Third—The bridge was not cleaned by the order of any group of students.Fourth—I am not, as alleged, a member of the AKE fraternity or ofany other.Fifth—^There has been no attempt on the part of the college authorities tostifle investigation.In another interview Mr. Pierson said, November 13:As to the coroner's statement that certain marks on my son's body weresufficient evidence that he was tied to the track, I can state that on theevening of the accident my son wore a pair of heavy hunting shoes, and theextra long shoestrings, after being tied once at the top of the shoes, werewrapped around the boy's ankles and tied. After the accident the shoeshad been jammed around to such an extent that it was necessary to cut thestrings and the shoes in order to remove them. To me, the father, this issufficient evidence to explain the marks that appeared but lightly on theankle. The body was bruised from head to foot, and any one who desires,as was the case with the Coroner, to pick out a mark on the arm or wrist,and say that it might be made by a rope, would find such marks. Thecoroner claimed as evidence that the terrible marks of the accident were removedfrom the bridge. Just who cleared the bridge off I do not know, butI do know that Mr. G. D. Curtis, of New York City, passed over the bridge,from a train shortly before daylight of the night of the accident and immediatelywired President Pierce, of the college, that a crowd of gaping peoplehad gathered there, and for the sake of decency and humanity all marks ofthe catastrophe should be cleared away. Mr. Curtis is one of the largestcoal dealers in New York and will shoulder all responsibility for the charitableact.About 11:45 P- *' November 12, James E. McGarvey, atheological student at Kenyon, was found in his room in Bexleyhall, bound, gagged and unconscious. On his clothes waspinned a note saying: "This will do for this time, but if wecome again it will be worse." He was unable to identify hisassailants, but said that, while lying asleep on a couch, about9:30 o'clock, he was partially awakened, when a towel wasthrust into his mouth and another wrapped around his eyes.His feet and hands were bound and then he lost consciousness.He was probably chloroformed. From his finger aring, valued at ;^8, was taken, and from his clothes $1.50 inmoney, but money in his trousers' pockets was not taken. Itis believed by some persons that robbery was not the motiveof the assault, but that he was assaulted in retaliation forevidence which he is supposed to have furnished to the coronerin the Pierson case, or to intimidate him so that he wouldnot furnish evidence. Mr. McGarvey is thirty-one years old