Four Cadets Who Headed for Riches of Santo Domingo Hit Detour to Jail

Dummy in Bed and Start Out, Being Just "Griped" With Things on Maxinkuckee Shore -

Released When Attorney Intercedes.

Dreams of adventure in South America and freedom from classroom shackles faded into the gloom of the city prison yesterday for four A. W. 0. L. cadets of Culver military academy.

The youths, all members of prominent families from three of the "four corners of the world,' were arrested on a bus at Valley Mills yesterday afternoon after slipping away from the academy Thursday night.

"We were griped with school," one of the youths said, "and decided to go to Santo Domingo and get rich."

The cadets are Jay Roy Hunt Jr., 16 years old, of Hollywood, Cal., son of Jay Roy Hunt, Paramount motion picture director; Samuel Barron Stevens, 16 years old, of Rome, N. Y., son of S. B. Stevens, Wall street broker; Richard J. Schuler, 16 years old, of New York, nephew of Bernard Meyer, Wall street sugar broker, and Juan Suarez, 17 years old, of Porto Rico, son of Amarcial Suarez, one of the largest sugar plantation owners in Porto Rico.

Charges of Vagrancy.

Charges of vagrancy were placed against the youths and they were ordered held in default of $1,000 bonds awaiting the arrival of a representative of the academy. In the meantime, Schuler got in touch with Earl Cox, attorney, whom he said was a friend of his family, and Judge Thomas E. Garvin of Municipal court ordered them released on their own recognizance on the request of Cox.

The youths described their "method" of slipping away from the school in detail when apprehended by Deputy Sheriffs Mays and Fox on the bus, which was bound for Evansville.

"We placed dummies in our beds and then slipped out into the hall, which was dark, as Lieut. Col. Johnson, officer of the day, came along,' Suarez said. The dummies were made of stuffed pajamas.

Suarez said the officer of the day stood within several yards of him, lighted a cigarette and passed on after looking into Suarez's room where the dummy made a lifelike figure on the bed.

The others remained in their rooms until the officers had passed, before joining Suarez.

The four then walked to Hibbard, where they took a taxicab to Rochester. They rode Kokomo on a truck and then came into Indianapolis on a traction car.

Arriving here yesterday morning they walked the streets until afternoon, when they boarded the bus Evansville. Hunt said that he had spent three years at the school and had tendered his resignation, but the superintendent would not accept it.

He is ace on the pistol team. Stevens is star half back on the football squad and' Suarez a featherweight boxer the school.