Roy Hazard
Roy Hazard, 21, Mabel Rowland and her sister Lulu Rowland, 16, were travelling from LA using fake names on the Valencia’s ship registry. Roy Hazard went as C. West and the two girls went as “Misses T Martin and T Simpson.”
Hazard left a letter with a friend with instructions to mail it when they sailed. The friend forgot until January 27th, several days after the Valencia wrecked. The parents only learned they were on the Valencia when the letter arrived. It appears that Roy Hazard’s father E.L. Hazard assaulted Lulu Rowland at some point before the trio ran away. Several months after the Valencia disaster, the San Francisco Call reported E.L. Hazard had been charged with assaulting Lulu Rowland.
Several months after the Valencia shipwreck happened a bottle floated ashore 800 kilometres north of the Valencia wreck on island of Haida Gwaii. This bottle contained a letter written was sent from the Valencia several hours into the ordeal. “We are going down off the coast. – E.F. Hazard.” The letter was written in pencil, faded and difficult to read, so the E.F. was likely mistaken for R.F. as Roy Hazard was the only passenger with that last name.