The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-11-24
CUT TO PIECES.
Will This Gruesome Tragedy
Stop Crazy College Hazing.
REACHED THE LIMIT
When They Blindfolded Little Prieson
and Tied Him to the Railroad Track.
Where a Special Train Cut
Him iutO Mlnce Meat.

Where a Special Train Cut
Him iutO Mlnce Meat.
II swear by all my hopes On earth
to keep this pledge with the brethren
Of our order. May my life be accur-
sed; my death be loathsomt; my heart
be cut out and cast into the DUST
my flesh rot from my bones; my bones
: crumble away-if I ever reveal any
OF the secrets Of our beloved order or
betray my brethren"
This is the grim VOW under the aw.
full influences Of which the young uni
versity student, fresh from the gen
tie influence Of his home, with his
youthful ideals of honor aud loyalty
as yet unsullied by contact with the
world. has braved the terrors Of hsz
Ing, and faced death hundred times.
lt was the VOW that led Stuart
Lathrop PiersOD, the freshman Of the
little college Of Kenyon, Ohio, to sub.
NIT, as part Of his initiation into the
fraternity Of the Delta Kappa Ep
stlOn, and without sign or word rf
murmur, to the awful ordeal Of beiL,
tied to the railroad tracks Of til,
Cleveland. Akron s. Ohio Railroad,
there to be left until train came
along and ground to pieces.
For In It's effect upon the mind OF
an imprersionable boy this VOW is In
vested with more Of awIu' p rtent
and more of solemnity than ti.e 'sths
Of the Molly Maguires, the Wni. s
or Of the Suicide Club, pictured b.
Robt. Louis Stevenson In the "Nev
Arabian Nights"
Given five Thousand members o.
the alumni Of a college fraternity In
possession Of the sc crets Of this order,
and not one, throughout long life,
shall ever betray them. Stuart Pier
son, lying tound to the track on the
railroad river bridge at Gambler,
hearing the distant rumple of the ap.
preaching train and realizing In that
supreme moment Of horror the awful
mistake OF his fellow students tha,
doomed him, on the very threshold
OF his young life, to death under the
wheels was true In spirit to his fell.
* lows. Gould he, in that moment
"A have escaped by some miracle, bis
lips must have been forever sealed,
Bring him back from the grave now
and he shall not utter word Of &c
nunoiatlon:
Strong In the heart Of his father
himself an alumnus Of the college and
member Of the fraternity OF the DKE
-~-is the spirit Of the oath ana tf lind.
unreasonable loyalty. For III G. Of
cumulative proof, sufficient " con.
vince every other man in the country
that the son was, with q e)ld- -bloodeo
cruelty worthy Of the fends, tied tc
the railroad tracks and left there,
Mr.. Plerson, hurrying the mutilatec
remains Of his son out Of $ ght Of the
coroner and the police, tarcely oppos
eBievery. stage Of investigation, blind
ly insisting that This boy" was nos
tied to the tracks, but that he fel
asleep at his post and was thus rul
down by the train. And Of him C0ro
ner Scarborough and the Cit z,ns OF
Gambler, Loyalty seekirg the whole
truth Of this barborou' slaughter
have said that the honor OF his college
is dearer to him than the life OF his
child. In proc Of their assertions
they have produced evidence that, IL
the very moment that his son lay on
the tracks, watching the lights OF
the train bearing Gown uron him, ,and
enduring In these few moments the
egonIe8 Of hundred deaths, he q
business man Of mature years, wa
engaged with another party of stud
entS In the work Of Initiating anoth
er Victim"
But the accident Cf the advent Of o
special train where, according to the
schedule OF the Initiating committee
no train should have been, has led tt
q gigantic revulsion OF every college
In the country, uch as will put al
end forever to barbarism In the prac-
tlce of initiating Cr ha2iDg
For the whole State OF Ohio, aflamt
with anger over his WaDtOn slaughter
demands that the students who bound
and gagged Plerson, and LED him tt
the tracks, shall be discovered ant
heavily punished. And, standing
alone against the power and might o.
Of the State, is DR.. Pierce, the prcsi
dent OF the college, declaring In th
face Of all the evidence, that his pup
lis are guiltless Of wrong. The senti
ment OF the Ohio people, however
has spread over the country, for fl
this case the apex Of boylsh cruelty
has been reached.
And while one half the G)untr.
watches In anger and anxiety the de
velopment Of the story tf the deatl
Of Stuart L. Piesson, comes ev!del G
that woman has quickly adopted th
Lessons.
The "fraternity" girls Of the Evan
Bton High School havo branded Til
arms Of their sisters with the sigh {
the Phi Delta Sigma, and here tn
story ls told Of how another Pierson-
Muriel- who, however, is not In tn
remotest degree related to the victim
OF the Gumbier outrage was le
blindfolded into room. ard there
crying for Wercy and half faintinl
held down while the insignia Of til
society in Greek was burnt into he
arms with nitric acid Then Two @
her comrades, Majorie Cox and Alic
Barns, suffered the same ordeal.
Vet no murmer OF complaint escar
ed the lina Of the hrAye 6amsele mt!
D scream, evoked by accidental col
= ligiOn of the inlamed arm with har