Hold Up Was A Student Joke

Hold up was a student joke

But a watch was lost in the melee

Pretty rough joke practiced to test a student's courage - lost a lock of hair.

The "hold-up" on Sunday night is now explained as a student's practical joke, which had all the indications of being real, and the reason no complaint was made to the officers can thus be well understood. There is a student here from the west who has been telling his companions of adventures with footpads until they believed he was a modern Munchausen. They proposed putting his mettle to the test and in some way induced a girl to make an appointment with him at the Ann Arbor depot. When he arrived there they fell upon him and he proved that he was of good fighting stock and had not be talking through his hat, but gave them a battle royal. One of the attacking party had a pair of clippers which he used on the student's hair. In the melee the student's watch was lost. When his companions heard of this they went back and found the watch and returned in anonymously the next day. All around it was a very practical joke of a nature that might land some one in states prison. George Pulcipher, the Ann Arbor engineer who was reported to have chased the would-be footpads, is understood to deny that he did so, but looks at it in the light of a row among the boys which did not amount to much.