Catawba College Youth
Assaulted and Lashed
Instead of Catawba College students waylaying a Newton boy
on last Friday night and giving him a severe lashing with a leather strap, it
was the other way, and eight young men of Newton are under $200 bond for their
appearance in the county court next week to answer to the charge of assaulting
Mr. Ralph Linn, a Rowan boy, who is a student at the college.
The Record was
able to gather the facts from a reliable source today, with the request that it
set the matter straight. The item in the Catawba
County News, from which the Record’s
story was based, was not exactly clear, probably because the circumstances were
not known when the story appeared.
According to the Record’s authority, eight Newton boys,
after warning Mr. Linn, who was calling on a young lady friend, intercepted him
on his return to the college, stripped his coat and each in tern applied a
leather strap to his back. His injuries were painful, if not serious, and it is
intimated that the father, who is a well known manufacturer in Rowan county,
may institute civil proceedings against the young men who are charged with the
affair.
Those under bond for the offense are said to be Frank
Gamble, Cecil Reinhardt, Burdette Trott, George Hewitt, Junius Gaither, Delmar
Ervin, Byron Little and another young man whose name was not learned.
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