The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-03-16
A Sad Tale of the Wreck of the
Valencia.
TWO WAYW WARD GIRLS
Who Ran Away From Their Homes and
th. Young Men Who Went With
Them Finds a Watery Grave
When the Steamer Was

N p6lSOIS WIZ pOll6LCu III UDo lUuDuGI
Ing OF the steamship Valencia In the
graveyard OF the seas tf the coast
Of British Columbia in January, three
"a young man and two young wo,
mon both In their teens-wera over
taken by death in their fight to escape
facing an earthly tribunal.
Roy Ii zzard, OF Los Angeles, Gal.
and Mabel and Lulu Rowland, OF OK.
nard, GAL, were passengers on the
Valencia when she foundered, and the
sea u O. relenting mood has since Civ
on up the bodies OF the man and one
Of the women as grim p, oof that the
fugitlves escaping from man ere APP.
pretended by q higher power.
While earthly justice was baked
and the pursuit or man rendered vain,
relatives. friends and acq uaintances OF
the three fOrbear to ask whe her
Heaven did not exec an awful pull
ishment upon them.
Ga that terrible night, when the
stauch ship, carried far from hor
couroe by fierce storms and hopelessly
lost In the denSest OF ioRs, struck on
the treachelous and ragged rocks of
Sea Bird reef, none fought harder,
more desperately aud mole persistent
ly to bave thetl y lives ttau the
young man and the two Womep.
LII those hours OF terror, whiol,
seemed centuries lOug to all who pass
ed through Them and lied TO relate
their experiences, Roy HaZz .rd, Ma
bel n Lulu Rowland struggled for
their lives as though They dared not
die. With almost s%uperl,uman might
they, inexperienced az they were with
vessels, cllmed the WIND whipped rig
glng and ciunR with the teuAcity OF
despair and horror to toe ropes until
their senses were beuumed and one
by one they were Deate II by the pitt
less gale into the hungry, llaping sea
wIicn eneulled thu N.
Was tiltir terr.b bic tate a fitting
hlal TO the closing chapters Of TIER
lives? those "no are a.Ql4lnlou
have asked on, another.
We'll, l guess 1t IL for the best
that IL happened that way, for l wa
going TO %dislnuerlL them both any.
way" III Ia. Rowland, o prosperous
business man or Oxnard, father OF the
fugitive glrls, is sad 10 Id We declared
when IN Bis Brlef and shame he was
inioImen Of TIC II gut OF Ills children
ard II lleif LIaKIG death at aimoSl
the 81 me time.
The same day he received q toe
gram i,adiAg, Girls Lodies here
come anu Identity Lhem,n he haC
been handed d leJLer from Roy Haz
zAro t,lsipg him that Mabel aud Lul,
a He'd n%Olth~ar0 frt m San FfanCis
co with MIN on the Valencia. Thi
letter WAS daLtd Los Aug eles and va,
to have been posted the day the shi
sailed SO That pur, mt would have beer
impossible, buv somehow it was no
oellVcr,d to the mails until the DAY
OF the WICK.
E. L.. III zzlrd, father Of the youns
man, and uador bal OF S., 600 In al
action at law in which PRETTY LULU
Rowland, siXtecn years OF age, wa,
The Prosecuting witness, received ;
telegram Woided clacJly os was tina
TO the rather Of tie girls.
Both men hastened TO Seattle an(
Chence to Victoria, where the realiza
tlon Of all OF their fears was experien
ced In the i"entiticstiou OF the dead
Both knew at a glaLc2 the body o
Mauel Rowland
Though death had sealed her lip
her rather know more surely than i
she herself had confessed IL that sh,
had plotted WITH Roy Hazard to takt
Lula fIoin Los Angeles and from tia,
jurisdiction OF California courts tina
IL. u. IL ZZard might NOT D9 compelled
to face her C uiAti0nS.
Too late the fathet remembered h09
Mabel Tad cOaxed and pleaded. aictC
by the influence Of E. L.. IIazzltd,
who Ii q real estate broker, to ue al.
lowed to go to Los Angeles and kecr
house for Lulu, who was Hazards
stenCgrapher.
Too late the father learned that
Mabel, two years Lulu's senior, n
stt al OF btffiendiDg ner sister, irnl.
enced her 70 1iRnt rather til N renal
In Los Angeles andgtve her testimony
against her employ r In q suit which
had been brought against him by the
State.
Roy Fl; zzard had safe: 81 will got
THAI girl cut Ct the country and savr
my father"
He did so and he forfeited his own
life In tho enterprise.
The 60 operation OF Mabel was early
secure, Roy acc )rnpIiSllnR this him
SELF. LII vas represented 10 hDr thai
Lulu might fl c tie Ccdltry with him
aud that they miRhtiive in British CO.
lumbla or anyhherc thcir fancy shout
G oohe. Wney would have money in
plenty. But the oder IIazz ri must
not be faced by the gin IN . l. S Ap.
geles court.
In tner modes, comfortable home,
No. 1853 South Gope sir ct, Lob An.
gel(S, Nj bel p rsuadcd Lulu TO CON
seht Il fl 4ht Win Roy III III I'd. She
was ycunR and tomanlic, and the
elder SistIr panied q bright future for
the girl. TiIey NEtu'A go, the threc
or Lhem, I o the nom; asplcndid ocean
voyage await ed Jlptm AID sights and
scenes ia lands they nad only dreame4
OF.
The younger cir was soon brought
to con eut, and Roy Hlzz4rd made
Tue Hans for be uney mat was to
a v is father from prosecution am
pos b o tuin and d. grace.
AlthUugl his daughter vas to be
Important witness in a suit against
the man who had Oh poyed her, Roa-
land, tic father, IN lis comfortable
O&naro homG tcltthat Sic was safe.
was lot her older Sl6ter. mattel, With
her2
IJ was this false sonsc Of security
that enabled young Roy Hazztrd g.
carry out bis plans. VITA no witness