The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-14
A Sad Tale of the Wreck OF he
Valencia.
TWOWAYWARDGI GIRLS
S-;rt
- - a. AkN

Ing OF the steamship Faien2la II Ohe
graveyard OF tbs SEAS" t She cast
of British Colu nbia in January, th-ee
"a Young man and two ytuog VIC.
men. both il thsic Jesns-Here over
taken by death il their fight to escape
facing an earthly tpounal.
Roy b. zzsrd. OF Les Angeles, Cal,
and Mabel anG Lulu Rowland, OF O1
nsrd, Cal, were passengers on the
Valencia when she toundered, and the
sea ID 8 relenrlng mood hss since CIV
en- I'D the bodies OF the man ano one
of the women as grim proof that the
fugitireS escaping from nan we're ap-
pretended by q higher power.
While earthly justice was baked
and the pursuit OF man rendered sa1n,
relatives, friends and acqualntances o.
the three foroear TO ask whe her
Heaven did not exsc5 an awful pun
ishment upon them.
o. that terrible night, when the
stanch ship, csrrie6 far from. her
course by fierce storms and hopslessly
lost in tile densesI cf logs, struck on
the treache1ous and ragged rocks OF
Sea Bird reef, none fought harder,
more desperately and mole persistent
" to save thei. o.n lives tran the
young man and The two women.
In these hours OF terror, wh!c3
seemed centuries long 60 all who pass
ed Though them anc IL, d TO relate
their experiences, Roy Eszz. I'd, Ma-
bel ano Lulu Rowland struggled for
their lives as enough they cared 'nos
die. With almost supernunan might
they, iaexperlsIc.6 q as they were with
vessels, cllmed the vino whipped rig
pirg and c:ung with the Ieuacity Of
Despair ana hCrIor 10 the IopeS until
tteir senses We're Oenunsd aod one
By one they were bsaGt q oy the p!0i
less gale into the hungry, leaplng sea
which ensulfed them.
Was their TERI bic tate lifting
dasl to the cl:s!ng chapters II thel:
lives? those wno are a-qGa.nleu
have asked opt another.
We'll, I guess il Is for the best
that IL happered that way, for was
gong to dlSinneri5 them boJn any.
way" n L Rowland, prosperous
business man CT Oxaard, father OF the
fugitive girls, is SAID 70 have declared
when IN bis grlef anu shame ne was
informed Ct tie f goJ OF bis children
ard Ct tteir tras:c death at almost
the Sc me llme.
The same day ne received teie
gran reaojrg, Girls Ocoles here,
come anu ldectlfy t.en," BE hao
been handed a ielIer from Roy Haz
ZArc tsInUg him that Mabel aho Luiu
had fsG noItnwaro frC % Sar Fiaucls-
CO with him on the Valencia. TINS
letter was dated Los Angeles and was
to have been posted the cay the Shi
sailed so thst purs ut would have oeen
impossible, bu. somehow it was no.
deiivcr.d to tie mails until the Gay
Of the WICK.
E. L. A.zzsr6, father Of the young
man, and undsr bail OF S5. 900 IN an
action at law in which prettI L1lu
Rowland, sixteen years OF age, was
the prosecuting witness, received q
telegram woIded e2ac,ly as was that
to the father OF tie glris
Both men hastened TO Seattle aud
thence 70 Victoria, where tie real.zs
tior of al OF 'Jnelr fears was experlel
ced in The i eutifca5ion Of the dead.
Both knew as giaEca the body OF
Msoel Rowland.
Though death had sealed her lips
her father knew more surely than il
she hersslf had confessed 1t that she
had plotted witt r y Ha2z. .rd TO take
Lula from Los Angeles and from toe
jurisdiction OF California courts that
E. L. 81 III srd might not bs compelled
to face her sc.ussIlons.
Too late tie father remembered how
Mabel had couxed and pleaded, aided
by the irtuence OF z. L. Hszzacd.
who is a real estate broker, to % 81
lowed TO so to Los Angeles and keep
house FOR Lulu, who was Hazard, S
stencgra apher.
Too late the father learned that
Mabel. two years Lu!u's senior, it
stead OF b>fc.enoing her sister, i. tll-
enced her 10 f.snt rather than renain
in Los Angeles and give her testimony
against her employer In suit which
had been brought against him by tile
State.
Roy Hizz2rG mad saio: II will get
thai girl Gus Ct the country and save
my faIher.''
He did so. and be forfeited his OWL
life in tce enterprise.
The CO operation OF Mabel was early
secure, r y accomplishing this him
self. It was represented 70 hsr that
Lulu might fl E tne county with him
and that they might've in British c.
lumbia or aDyAhere thslr fancy snoul2
c, oose. They ~ou!d have money il
plenty. But the elder Bazz ,rd must
mol be tacs by the glrl il q LIS AD.
geles court.
In rneir modest, comfortable hons.
No. 1853 South Eops >ir ct, LIS AZ.
geles, Mabel persuaded Lu;u to coz
sent to fl eht with Roy Rezz :rd. She
was yCung and romantic, and the
elder Slster painted bright future tor
the girl. They sht u,d 90, the three
of them, to the north; q splendid ocean
voyage awaited them AID sights aud
scenes in lands they had Cnly oreane1
Of.
The younger girl Was socn brought
to con>ent, and Roy Il. zz>ro mad
the slias for ice Journey LEat was tt
save ri, father f:ola prosecution al
pos o g ruin and ei grace.
Altnouga bis dauShter waS to be-
important witness IN q suit agsin>t
the neu who had eLp ? oyeC ne:, Ros-
lanC, the tatner, il Us comfortable |
Oxnard houe felt sta- > as safe.
Was LOT hes elder slS.er, Mel, wi.h |
her?