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Freshman Banquet Row An Attempt To Break Up The Banquet With Noise And Stones

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Day
22
Month
May
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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A disgraceful disturbance took place on Maynard st., on Friday evening last, at the time that the freshmau lit banquet was taking plaoe at G-rariger's academy. The class bad taken the pxecaution to engage tho ser%'ices of four deputies to protect thera from interference and it was not until uearly rnidnight that any serious disturbauce ocourred. Several Jinudred studeuts, Jed by the soph om ores, had made the best use possible of their Inngs iu au endeavor to drown the prooeedings going ou inside the hall and flnally made a rush at the front door. At the same time a volley of stones was thrown and two large lights of glass and a small one were broken and other damage was done to the window shades where the winde w were open. Mr. Granger went out and remonstrated with the crowd, but it was of no nse, and he flnally sent for Marshal Peterson. When that officer and four patrolmen arrived tbey attempted tn disperse the crowd, bnt the students resisted and one of thern more bold than the rest was arrested. In the attempt of the others to rescue him two more were gatbered in and fiually lodged in the Jail. The names of those arrested wero Frank Ramsey, a freshmau medio, Richard Ray, a law, and Alfred Ulp, a high school student. In the coat pocket of young Ray a number of stones were fouud. Ramsey disclaims all conneotion with either the sopbornores or freshmen and says he did not particípate in the row at all. He says that while staoding ou the ourb he was ordered to move on by the offlcers. Refusing to do so as he had done nothing wrong be was arrested. He feels the disgrace of nis position keenly and paid the costs aud damages assessed agaiust him Monday rnorning in Justice Gibsou's court amonuting to 13.75. The trial of the others was postponed until nest Monday. On Monday night the law faoulty suspended Richard Ray until the second semester of nest year for his share in the disturbance. Henry S. Weinstein, '98 lit, of Montana, was arrested Tuesday for complicity in the affair. He claims he was arrested beoause he has money and has engaged Prof. J. C. Knowlton to deferid him. It was purely a student affair - a row between the members of two classes. No one had any interest in it bnt themselves and the imputations that have heen thrown out in the Detroit daily papers that the hoodlums were "town boys" cannot but be oondemned. lf it was town boys who did this action it is the duty of the students to prosecute them and byhaving them properly pnnisbed, remove the stigma from themselves. It is only JDSticfi to say that when the stones were thrown not only did the freshmen show their disapprobation by hisses bnt the better part of the sophoruore crowd did likewise.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News