Show HAZING SAID TO BE CAUSE OF A DEATH Thurber Sweet 17 Dies of Injur es Received Re-ceived at Virginia Military Institution ROANOKE Va Dec 11 Thurber Sweet the 17 year old son of a Ch cago n 11 ona re s dead of njur es wh ch he cla med to have rece ed by hazing at V rg n a M 1 tary inst tut on He d ed last n ght I Sweet left the inst tute early n Oc tober cla m ng that he had been beaten w th bayonets Students at Wash ng ton and Lee cared for h m and Dr J M Scott attended h n When Sweet s cond t on became worse he was removed to the nstitute hosp tal where he d ed Super ntendent N chols of the nst tute sa d today that so far as he knew there was no truth n the cla m that Sweet s death was due to haz ng Thurber Sweet was the son of Charles A Sweet v ce pres dent of the W Scott Thurber Art galleries H s parents went to V rg ma to bo near una week ago |