Show HH SGOUL FRACAS Principal Clark Struck by Mart Trent BLOW BROKE THREE TEETH Young Trent Who is a Student at the School Says that Clark Grew Abusive and Dared Him to Strike Him Trents Fist Then Shot Out and Caught the Professor Squarely In the Mouth Breaking Three Tcoth and Cutting His Lip Clark Denies the Dare There was an Impromptu exhibition In the private office of Principal Clark of the high school yesterday afternoon which Is not embraced in the curriculum curricu-lum The participants were Mori Trent the eighteenyearold son of L C Trent who Is a regular student at the school and A O Clailc principal of the institution The exhibition was of the fistic variety and was brief and also bloody at least so far as Principal Clark was concerned as young Trent dealt Clark a crushing blow in the mouth with his first which broke three teeth and cut the principals lip There arc of course two distinct sides to the affair Young Trent claims that Prof Clark applied opprobrious epithets to him and dared him to strike him and that the blow was struck under un-der great provocation Prof Clark admits ad-mits that he called the pupil a loafer and forger but denies that he dared the boy to strike him Prof Clark attempted to keep the occurrence oc-currence setici but almost every pupil In time school knew of It within a very few minutes ami it was the principal topic of conversation during the remainder re-mainder of the day Pupils unfriendly lo the principal weie Joyful over tile affair The matter wilt be reported to Superintendent Super-intendent Cooper at once and he will then make an olllclal Investlgaiion In order to ascertain to what extent blame attaches tm each of the participants YOUNG TRENTS STORY When Mail Trout was seen last evening he said that on Monday he returned a report card which had beer signed by 1 himself and was told by Miss Stokes one of the teachers tc take It to the otlice First she said she would send a note about It by him but changing her mind said she would send 11 by I some one else This tc Mart says angered him as though sin thpught he could not be trusted to ever carry a note to the office so he ton UI > his report card A report of hit aetlon wsis made to Supcrlntonden fooper who requested that the boy b < sent to him tsu early yesterday afternoon after-noon Marl went lo Mr Cooper explained ex-plained time situation to him and wam given a note by the superintendent tc Principal Mark in which Mr Coopci said that Urn boy should be allowed U make his apology to Miss Stokes thi morning which he was perfectly willing will-ing to do But Principal Clark in Misted that young Trent taker the note from Sup rintendfMil Cooper lo Miss Stokes and apologize yesterday afternoon after-noon which he declined to do becaupe as ho explained to Mr Mark he ihought an apology was due Miss Stpkes for his action and he did not wish her to think that he uoiild not make it of his own free will but had been compelled to make It by Superintendent Superin-tendent Cooper CALLED SEVERE NAMES In the course of time conversation Trent says that Mr Clark called him a loafer and a forget the hotter appellation applying to his action In signing his own report card and the voting man informed the older one that I ho considered such remarks an Insult I I and would not lake it from any one Then Mr Clark told him to leave the olllcc and started out with him Trent says he thought Mr Clark was going to strike him so he buttoned up his coat and made ready And then as claimed by Mart came the straw which broke the camels back He says that with a sneering laugh Mr Clark said to him MartinI Martin-I dare you to hit me If you do you will have to take the consequences STRUCK CLARK IN THE FACE With that the boy drew off and struck the principal sqtial ely in the mouth breaking off three of his front teeth and causing the lip to bleed profusely pro-fusely He admits that he was very angry In fact exasperated at Mr Clarks manner and did not realize what had happened until It I was nil over and ho bad gone part way up the stairs VERSION OF PRINCIPAL CLARK Principal Clark was also seen and asked to give his version of the affair He was very reticent at first and regretted re-gretted deeply that he should have been placed In th I position that he was lie was inomt bitter houever in hIs do nunclalion of young Trent and said the boy had been a sourer of great annoyance an-noyance to him ever since entering the school That soon after becoming o student at the high school he dissected one of Miss Stokess frogs whmlhc alive In the presence ot several other students stu-dents and one offense has followed another an-other In rapid succession up to the present SAYS ASSAULT WAS UNPROVOKED UNPRO-VOKED As to daring oung Trent to strike him Principal Clai k says that that Is utterly false as no such challenge was Issued He says tim boy became very abusive and he ordered him to leave tho office Mr i lark started to follow him out or went to HIH door with him nnd Just an they reached the door Mart turned and struck him in the mouth breaking off three of imiru teeth and severely cutting his upper lip The principal said he did not mind time loss of the teeth as they could easily be replaced re-placed imr would ho have minded the blow for time pnlnr but It IH the terrible Inault which In felt he had been subjected sub-jected to which grieved him Ho expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the boy had returned to the ollloc for the express purpose of doing mischief and believed be-lieved he had something In his hand when he dealt the blow Although Mr Clark was of the opinion opin-ion that the boy was not responsible for what he did he still thought it wrong for the school to be further injured in-jured by his presence WILL BE TAKEN BEFORE SUPER INTENDENT As to whal will be done with the ease Mr Clark was not In a position to say as tho matter will have to be brought before Superintendent Cooper for decision Three other pupils were in the room i when the affray took place When seer I last evening Mr Clark fald lie had forgotten the names of two of the pu I plls but would be glad lf Time Tribune representative would call upon the third Dale Pitt This Avas done but the young man ynld that I Principal tl l flark had bound him to strict secrecy in the matter and hu accordingly declined de-clined lo talk or lo divulge time unmet l of the other two wilmHses |