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Show TIED TO TREE IN BLIZZARD. Student with Feet Bound Crawls Through Drifts to Room. Galesburg, 111. Gagged and bound to a treo for sovftral hours during tho flcrco blizzard which swept over this part of tho country tho othor night was tho treatment Inflicted on Clar-onco Clar-onco Robinson, n student at Heddlng college at Abingdon, by masked young mon. Robinson wns near Heddlng college pnrk early In tho ovonlng, whon ho wns suddenly sot upon from behind. His nssnllants bound his hands nnd feet, plnced a gag In his mouth, nnd then tied him to n treo. Unablo to call out to attract attention, young Robinson Robin-son strugglod for sovernl hours boforo frcolng hlmsolf from tho treo. Ills hands wero so numb thnt ho could not initio tho ropo thnt bound his fcot, nnd ho crawled six blocks through tho snow drifts to his boarding house A fellow student cut his hands nnd holpcd him Into tho house, for ho was completely exhausted. Ills cars, cheeks, foot nnd hands wero frost-bitten nnd curntlvcB had to bo administered. |