Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-01-14 | Page 14 | Street Fight Follows Raid on Ballot Box

STREET FIGHT FOLLOWS RAID ON BALLOT BOX Irate University Freshmen Vainly Seek to Kidnap Five Sophomores While with baited br breath ath fifty ns one unfrocked barber and an Unemotional un- un emotional policeman looked on an nu- nu attempt was made In Exchange place yesterday esterday to kidnap five tl tall fair h haired young men or of Salt Lake The attempt wac carried out In the midst ot of n. n rumpus which attained the clamorous clam clam- orous crescendo o of a ruction The kidnappinG failed because the tho five e Intended victims refused to h he l kid ld- ld Their refusal was waR couched In words phrases s and fisticuffs The They declined positively el declined the subtle flatter of being held for tOr lansom ran lan som The baffled perpetrators or of the thc body body- snatching wore twelve well dressed young oung men who rode to tho thio scone In an u- u The They were vero unarmed and andu I cau OL 0 i U U. U 1011 null I makeup they ther- appeared In mal attire But Dut thc they were wert rend ready for bus I n e 85 DurIng the rot few minutes that the melee lasted It promised to rival rI the stealing of Charlie Ross floss or the tho filching of Lisa Then before the rIot call could ho bo sounded and this the police ye- ye serves called out the tho truth ot of the tha tumult tu- tu mulL got disclosed ed The Tho struggle was a class fight between between be- be tween sophomores and freshmen or of the University or of Utah It was the tho first setto setto set set- to of the academic year rear The Intended members ot of the second year ear clas' clas wore tere Kenneth Barnes s. s last years ears fr freshman lS l'S pres- pres Ment John Sharp Juel Cliff Simpson and James BraUd Braffet Among those who were willing to bo be hosts tv to the hostaGes were vere Aaron Smith Meyers Aaron Jacobson Burnett Burnett Bur Bur- nett Love Lo creny Hines Drew Chipman Willard Squires and Herbert Rosenberg members of the tho freshman class The attempt to take tho thio sophomores all alive and unharmed Was made mad after the sophomores had cd the tho freshman class election yesterday The Tho upper upperclassmen upperclassmen classmen In true Tammany style broke into the booths when the votes had een cast CaRt and captured the ballot banot box Tho They up upset ct the tho electorate and vamped the official returns Freshmen unable un to hean who had been choset had to seek seck consolation con con- from their constituencies Then n. n dozen or of the tho outraged freshmen fresh tresh- men boarded an aut automobile and tel tel- I lowed bowed Into the tho downtown district n. n street caron carlon which the five rode When hen the quintet got ot off orr the Ule car the doughty dought dozen sWooped down upon them Ensued combat There were no o casualties S