Show WEST POINT BRUTALITY alory of the hazing that killed young booz new york dec 5 A special to the new york herald irom bristol pa bays william H freely of the physical dorco used in hazing his son at west point sly son was the victim of brutal hazing eald sir booz he came homo brokenhearted broken hearted and physically wrecked he never saw a well day after he left the academy 1 I know they forced something down hla throat which permanently injured him he was forced into a fight he was wounded in some way over the and discolored heart and his face was bruised tor several weeks afterward by the blows injured his eyes were fellow students fists irom a they threatened to cripple him for life while ahey were beating the spirit told him that what out vt my boy they they could not accomplish by physical brutality they could still do so by de meriting him along the line of discipline tor us it blow severe it is a very has fallen beavely upon his mother we wish other boys to escape what he suffered he never took any lessons in boxing we did not suppose it was required he went there to study they called him a coward but he went out to fight 1 I went to the academy three weeks hazed he was looking after he was haggard and I 1 asked him for an explanation he said be had been beaten in a fight and was feeling badly around the heart he had been broken down they gave him a burning mixture which injured the lining of his throat my theory is that the stomach was at leeter and the tuberculosis set in and then affected the throat it Is not in me to give anything misleading I 1 know the boy was injured by his fellow students and those injuries resulted in hla death |