The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-11-22
CUT TO PIECES.
Will This Gruesome Tragedy
Stop Crazy College Hazing.
REACHED THE LIM1.n1'

REACHED THE LIMllmn
When They BliDdfolded Little PriesoD
and Tied Him 10 the Railroad Track.
Where 8 Special Train Cut
Him iuto Mince Meat.
II swear by all my hopes on earth
to keep this pledge with the brethren
OF our order. May my life be accur-
SEQ; my death be loathsone; my heart
be cut cut and cast into the dust;
my flesh rot from my bones; my bones
crumble away-if I ever reveal any
Of the secrets Ct cur beloved order or
betray my brethren"
This is the grim vow under tne sw.
ful 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
IS yet unsullied by contact with the
world has braved the terrors OF h:z
ing, and facsd death hundred times.
It was the VOW that led Stuart
Lathrop Pierson, the I eshnsn OF the
little college OF Kenyon, 0 lio, to sub
NIT, as part OF bis initiation into the
fraternity OF the Delta ksppa Ep
stlon, and without sign or ~ord or
murmur, to the awful ordeal Cf being
tied to the railroad tracks of the
Cleveland. Akron s. Ohio Railroad,
there to be left until train came
along and ground to pieces.
For In its effect upon the mind OF
an imprersionable 10y this VOW Is in
vested with mere Ct awful portent
and more of solemnity Laar the osths
Ct the Molly Maguires, the w It: c2ps
OF OF the Suicide Club. pictured by
Robt. Louis Stevenson in the New
Arabian Nights"
Given Eve Thousand members OF
the alumni Of a college fraternity in
possession OF the s. crets CT this order,
and not one, Throughout q long lie,
shall ever betrsy them. Stuart Pier
son, lying tound to the track on the
railroad river bridge st Gamble,
hearing the distant rumple OF the sp-
preaching train and realizing il that
supreme moment Of horror the awful
mistake Ct his fellow students that
doomed him, on the very threshold
OF his young life, to death under the
wheels was true In spirit to his fel-
lows. Could he, in that moment
have escaped oy some miracle, MS
lips must have been forever sealed.
Bring him back f.om the grave now
snd he shall not utter word OF oe
nunciatlon:
Strong in the heart OF hi fsther-
himself an ALUM nus Il the College $40
member Of the fraternity Of the DIE
is the spirit OF the oath and OF Slind.
unreasonable loyalty. For in fac Ct
cumulative proof sufficient to con
vince every other man in the country
that the son was, with c0id-blooded
cruelty worthy OF the fends, tied to
the railroad tracks and left there,
Mr. Pierson, hu-rying the mutllated
remains Of his son OUT Of SIGHT OF the
coroner and the police, 6srcely oppos
es;eyery:stage Of Investigation, blind
II insisting that his boy" Nas not
tied to the tracks, but that he fell
asleep at his pest and was thus run
down By the train. And Of him Coro-
ner Scarborough and the citizens OF
Gambler, loyally seekirg the whole
truth Ct this bartorous slaughter,
have said that the hcnor Of his college
is oearer to him than the life OF his
child. In pro, Of their assertions
they have produced evidence that, IN
the very moment that bis son lay on
the tracks, watching the lights OF
the. train bearing Gown upon him, ,ano
enduring in these few moments the
agonies Of hundred deaths, he
business man Of mature years, was
engaged with another party OF stud
ents IN the work of Initiating snoth
er victim"
But the accident Ct the advent Ct
special train where, according to the
schedule OF the initiating committee,
no train should have baen, has led to
8 gigantic revulsion OF every college
in the country, such as will put aD
end forever to barharism in the p1ac-
tice Of initiating CT hazing.
For the whole Safe OF Ohio, ahane
with anger over bis waDton slaughter,
demands that the students who bound
snd gagged Plerson, and leo him to
the tracks, shall be discovered ano
heavily punished. And, standing
alone against the power and might OF
Of the State, is Ds. Pierce, the preS'
dent OF the college, declaring In the
face CT all the evidence, that bis pup
lis are guiltless OF wong. The sentl.
nent Of the Ohio people, however,
has spread over the country, Tor IN
this case the apex OF bcyish cruelty,
has been reached.
And while one ha,f the Country
watches in anger and anxiety the de
yelopment OF the story Ct the death
of Stuart L. Piesson, comes ev.derce
that woman has quickly adopted the
lessons.
The fraternity" girls Of the Evan
ston High School have branded tae
arms Of their sisters with the sigh Cf
the Phi Delta Sigma, and here the
story is told OF how another PierScn-
Muriel-~hc, however, is not IN the
remotest degree related to the victim
OF the Guno outrage-Was leo
blindfolded into a room. AID there
crying for mercy and bait fainting
held down while the insignia OF the
society in Greek was burnt into nel