The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-08-28
a MOTHERS WARNING.

The Tragic death by drowning OF
pretty Hazel Crance, if Ithica, n. y,
rs OF nd particular interest to people
I'm stRer parts of the world, but IN
the solemn words of "a grief-stricken
mother, commenting upon the cir
Gumstances which led to the destruc-
tion of her daughter, there lies a
sermon which should touch the hearts
OF other mothers who have daught-
ers u rear. The full story OF the trag-
ic death of the young girl is TOO
sorai6 TO be told in print and the
reader must draw his own conclusions
as he follows the mothers words OF
warning. The young girl was alone
at might in a boat on a lake with Il
young man. The boat was overturned
and the girl was drowned. There
were evidences of whiskey drinking.
The mothers story follows:
Ithaca, N. Y, Aug. 19.-Mrs. Rob
ert Crance spoke from her mothers
heart a warming tonight to other
mothers who rear their daughters In
college towns. AS she talked her hus-
band and others were dragging the
waters of Cavuga Lake for the body
of Hazel Crance, the 1S-year-old girl
who, it is charged, was murdered the
night of July 10, by Donald w. Feth-
er. Cornell sophomore and son of a
wealthy Los Angeles oil magnate.
Fether will be taken tomorrow by
Sheriff Green to Cazenovia where a
writ of habeas corpus is returnable
before Supreme Court Justice Mich
aeI Kfley.
Grapplers searching for the girls
body around the spot where Fether's
knotted trousers were brought to the
surface last Thursday, were unsuc-
eessfui today. Tomorrow John Rey-
nolds, a diver, will descend in div
ing suit to explore the bed of the lake
about the spot, which has been
buoyed.
Mrs. Crance's Warning.
Clad in deep mourning and holding
I'm her hand photograph of her
daughter, Mrs. Crance said:
s"The average college boy Is good
at heart. and wants to be gentle
man. But the romatic spell Of lake,
4 wild wood and the dance is too apt
TO rouse the fire of youth until it be-
comes conflagration.
'"The sad result Of it all is that q
mothers training of many years NAV
be shattered in a few moments Of in
discretion.
EVERY small town girl dreams
vividly of the knight. who is to carry
her away. And if that knight be clad
IN neat tweeds or has a motor car, a
mother must strive with might and
main to inculcate in her daughter
the doctrine that money, dress and
smooth tongue do not constitute the
real American.
sTn the case Of my girl l swear bv
all that is holy that she was good,
pure and innocent. If this young man.
Fether, is innocent, God forbid that
he should suffer, for something he
may not have done. But believe a
mothers instinct is invariably right.
The first time saw him didn't like
his looks. He didn't appear on the
square. My regard for him has not
been softened since the tragedy which
took my girl to the bottom OF the
lake.
'Up to the time she met Fether.
Hazel never succumbed to the many
temptations which confront girls, who
are thrown in the company Of flash
Wy dressed collegians who enjoy
large allowances from their homes.
And I know that when she may have
been attacked she would have de-
Tended herself, even to the death. So
Y believe she did, and her father be-
Heves 1T firmly.
81 would warn all mothers that
every girl who is born and reared in
Il relatively small town community
where there are scores Of smooth
faced youthful and pampered colleg-