| Show SOME FUNNY BUSINESS Tho Freshmen Who Threw Bombs Prove to bo Too fresh NEW HAVEN Conn February 23 Advices from Middletown state that a committee including the president and two members of the faculty have been investigating the explosion at the Wesley University on Thursday and after a hard days work succeeded in getting at the bottom of the facs The hearing I hear-ing was secret and each member of the freshmen class was callea in and subjected sub-jected to severe examination It is learned that two of the men confessed con-fessed implicating six or eight others The faculty refuses to give out any information in-formation From other sources it is learned that the men who confessed are W H Hall and Robert E Smith the names of others are H S RooKsby Nelson C Hnbbard C H Pierce W M Douglass R M Grant E J Lamblyn and H P Queal It seems the party had planned to uaher in Washingtons Birthday Birth-day by firing a salute with a cannon can-non and afterwards return to the college col-lege grounds and tnrow bombs into tbe entries of the various dormitories One bomb was given to Booksley to explode in Observatory hall another to Smith to explode in North College while a third was sont to Hubbard and it seems Hubbard wishing to back out of tie scheme invited several upper class men to spend the evening with him aId ufter they left his room the bomb was handed to him with instructions to explode ex-plode it when he heard reports of others It is supposed he became excited ex-cited and by some way the bomb exploded ex-ploded in his hands before he could throv it President YanVleck has conferred with Stae Attorney Elmer with reference refer-ence to a criminal prosecution of everyone every-one implicated in the affair Should Huibbards injuries prove fatal it will undoubtedly be a very serious matter lor the young rioters It was also developed that dynamite was obtained in New York City from the father of one of the young men implicated It was sent to Middletown by express three of them being used and three others held for future use Xeports from the hospital tonight show that Hubbard is comfortable and the physi chins are confident of his recovery |
