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Show HAZ.IWG O'R'DEAL TA'RAL.yJZE'D HIM. The Crutt Treatment Gi-Otn a Student at a San Fran- cUco jrt School. The brutal huzlug. of Albert T. I)e Rome, a student at (be Mark Hopkins Institute of Art here. Is the sensation of the moment, says a San Francisco dispatch to the New York World. The perpetrators are to be ut once brought to criminal trial. De Koine Is paralyzed para-lyzed from the hips down, nnd he supports sup-ports himself with a cane as he drags his feet along. His Injuries are probably proba-bly permanent The students call the torture to which De Home was subjected the "muscle dance," and the effect was produced by hocking the victim with electricity The fun consisted in watching the In voluntary twitching of the muscles under un-der the violent electric Impulse. The hazing was In a musty, vile smelling attic nt (111 Clay atreet. The "muscle dance" was resorted to only after tho lad had refused to take certain vows and when all other methods ordinarily used lu college hazing had been vainly exhausted. De Home, after a terrible beating, was stripped and bound naked na-ked to n chair with a metal seat, a chair In Imitation of the electrocution Instrument. His body was tly papered and painted. Queer masks were put upon him. He was made ridiculous. His tormentors laughed lu savage glee. Then the electric current was turned on the chair. The shock caused De Home to writhe. As the victim's legs L i UK WAS HrUH'l'KI) AND HOUND TO A (1UI1C. quivered and kicked convulsively shrieks of merriment came from the IliqillsltOlN When the mirth wns at Its height It was suddenly suspected that the boy wns avoiding contact with the disks. He bad eem-cil to writhe. Then to make certain that he should uot escape tho full force of tho electricity elec-tricity De Home was tightly strapped down to the seat, nnd the curieiit was repeatedly turned on again. The cruel ordeal lasted for two hours and a hnlf. Do Home says that nfter the two first hours he failed to feel the pain 4nd his legs worked under the deadly current with the automatic movement aecn In tho limbs of a dead frog when touched with the two poles of nu. electric elec-tric battery for anatomical exyed mentu. |