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PUBLISHED THREE T WHO THEY AR G:)7srnor Blease Gives Names of Those, Holding IV/o Position?. ; III JAN BEADS UST _ ? ,S?he+Letter Sent to tho Committee Names Those Whom the Governor Considers A?e Openly Violating the Letter , aa:- Well as the Spirit of the Law. J Governor Blease, In a letter to the; committee appointed to- investigate j the holding of two position of "profit or trust," namea those whom he con r/;?.aiders are "openly violating the.let ter and spirit of cur State Consti tution." 'Heading the list, given to ' ? the committee In Governor Blease's Letten is the Hon. Benjamin Ryan" Tillznan, senior Senator from South Carolina, who is also a trustee of (Dlemson. . The following is the let ter of Governor Blease which he Fri day addressed to Senator Mauldin:: "Yours of the 2nd instant re-1 ceived. "In reply will state that T am] 'Informed that the Hon. B. R. TIll-| man-is a United States senator and trustee, of Glemson and Winthrop] colleges. "That the Hon. Francis H. Weston I - is a State senator and, trustee.of ?bte;] University of South Carolina. "That the Hon. John G. Richards | is a railroad com missioner and trus-j tee of .Clemson College. "That the Hon. Alan Johnstons is ?j a State senator, a trustee of Clemson - I pollege and president of the board of trustees of Clemson College. "That the Hon. D. J. Br?dham is-' a trustee of the colored college and, a magistrate. "That the Hon. D. W. McLaurln is laud agent of the sinking fund and trustee of Winthrop Ccdlege, i "At the time oi the message you speak of in your .letter, the Hon. y Hartwell M. Ayer- was a member of I the house of" representatives and a | trustee of the Staue reformatory. "The Hon. L. M. Gasque was a| member of the- house of representa tives and a member of the board of r fish commission for South Carolina. "There may be others; I have not taken) .the' pains to look the matter up.,; These-have -been called to my attention and believing that* each of the portions held by them, respec tively,^ came within the meaning of] the Sts.te' constitution, I sent in the | ? message referred to. "Article 2, section. 2, of the cosnti-j : stitution of 1119 5, reads:: ?The Constitution. i ? " ?No person shall be.eligible to a ? ..^eat in the general assembly while he holds any office'. or position of profit, or trust .under this State, the United States of. America, or any of ' them,-Or under any other power, etc/ j 'uT;tha trustees of a college that handles hundreds of thousands of A w dollars;'and .by his vote may. expend] the same, Is not a position, I': am at, a loss to know the meaning of thej word. If a railroad commissioner or ? United States senator is not an: office, I am badly misinformed^ "The constitution says 'or. under j any other power.' Can a man hold . an office or position without it being] . under some power? Is a man's will, J ' donating large amounts of money, j to be held in trust for certain pur poses, a'power; and; Is not one of I ? the trustees holding a position of] trust? ? . "The supreme court of this State, In the case of Hopkins against Clem son College, holds that the board of trustees are State, officers and holds that, for that reason, they can not he sted, and -dismissed Hopkins' complaint. That question is nowi before the supreme court of the | United States. ? "If your committee hold that| these men are not State officers, then I submit that the general assembly should pass an act, allowing these ] men to bring their suit. While I think th^"ft Is no merit In their claim, yet if the supreme court is wrong these men should have a right to a trial by a jury. "Article 2, section.^, of the consti tution, provides: " .'But no person shall hold" two offices, of honor or profit at the samej time.' "It is needless for me to repeat that which I construed, that all of the gentlemen named are openly violating the letter and the spirit of our State's constitution. Others may differ with me. This is my construc tion of the law and I felt that it was my duty, under my oath, to see that the constitution and laws of my State are upheld, to call the matter to the | attention of the general assembly. "Personally, I have absolutely no Interest in the matter. I hold the highest office within the gift of the people of my State. I am neither envious or jealous of any man and I thank God that I hold in my heart no malice. Many of those gentlemen are my personal and political friends j and 1 would be pleased to see them hold as many positions as they can obtain if It is not in violation of the | law. "There may be others violating) this same section of the constitution. It I knew of it, I would be pleased to give you the names, as your commit tee requests. If I learn of any oth ers the information shall be fur nished you. "I have the honor to be, "Very respectfully. IMES A WEEK. PITCHED BATHE one man killed and one is fatajLly wounded. Fight Brought on by the Dead Man Shooting Up .a Town and Resisting Arrest'' j In a pitched bettle Saturday night, on a public highway, t between a posse, headed -by Lee Holland, In tendant of the village of Mauldin, six miles below Greenville, and Robert lAicAbee and his sod Will, of Euorte. Spartanburg county, Robert McAbee was shot dead and Lee Holland prob ably fatally wouaded. According to the account of the killing, told bir Sheriff J.. Perry Poole, of Greenville county, McAbee and his son lelft Enoree Saturday morning - to spencl the night with Thomas i Fowler, who lives nearl Mauldin- About a mile above the village the two met a white man' In the road, one Thompson, and fired j five times at him, none of the shots1 taking; effect. The incident passed and father and son drove into Mauldin. In passing; through the village McAbee fired a pistol ball through both walls of a store conducted by Lee Holland and fled up the road with his son. Hol land organized a posse and started out to arrest McAbee and his Bon. It seems that in fleeing McAbee and hi3 son took the wrong road and attempted to retrace their steps. It was wh!:le they were going back that they were met by Holland and the posse. Immediately Robert McAbee drew his revolver and opened fire on the posse, one shot passing through Holland's right breast. No sooner had- McAbee fired than mem bers of the posse returned fire. The older' McAbee fell to the ground, his. body pierced by one pis torball and his head by three. He expired about an hour later, in the read. Despite the fact that he was shot through the breast, Holland placed the younger McAbee under ar rest and conducted him back to Maul din, wtere he fceid him until Sheriff Poole arrived, about 11 o'clock. , From all accounts MCAbee was a bad character- It is stated that he left his home, near Enoree, with a half gallon of whiskey and a pistol in Ms buggy.- He- has a brother serving a sentence in the State pen itentiary now for killing a man by the. name of Fowler, near the scone of the klliingj.^some years ago. ?Holland is the first mayor of the town of Mauldin, which was incor porated only a few months ago. lie is a substantial citizen, a planter and a merchant of prominence in his sec tion, and is well known in Green ville. He is prominently connected and is'a son of the first supervisor of Greenville county. , lived in a tomb. Two Girls Stayed In Vault While " Mother Seek Work. Endeavoring tp cook a potato ov er a small fire in a vault in a desertr ed cemetery in Paterson, N. J:, So phia and Margaret Green, 12 and 14 years respectively, daughters of Mrs. Mary Green, of Shenandoah, Pa., were found by the police this week. The two children were so weak from starvation that they scarcely could (walk. . Mrs. Green declared her . husband, Samuel Green, was* killed two years ago while at work In'a mine in Shen andoah. Since then she has been in destitute circumstances. The children declared they had not had a thing to eat in two days, tb,eir only nourishment being water which ?bey got from a nearby well. The only article of food in the vault was the potato which Sophia found in the street. The mother, when searched at the hospital, was found to have two slices of bread, which she declared she had found and which, rather than eat herself, although, in dire need of food, she intended keeping for her children. * Marrying Woman. Mrs. Lizzie Miller has pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy in court in Quincy, 111., and immediately drew an indeterminate sentence in the state penitentiary. Sin was charged with having married four men within four weeKS. two of them inmates of an old soldiers' home. * Returned Money. Mrs. Thomas W. Stephan, ot Tren ton, N. J., is satisfied that conlidence in penniless strangers is not a'wajs misplaced. Afew days ago she re ceived an order for money she gave Franz Truppe, of Milwaukee, Wis., three years ago. * "Cole L. Blease, "Governor." j "P. S.?Since writing the above, I have been informed that W.? W. | Bradley is private secretary to Con-{ gressman Aiken and also trustee of Clemson College, and that Mr. Rawl, who holds a position under the United States, in l!he city of Wash ington, D. C, is also a trustee of Clemson College. "The law says "office or position" and I call these to your attention." Francis H. Weston, senator from Richland county, stated that he was not a trustee of the University of South Carolina and had not been for a number of years. He was a trus tee at one time, he said, but resigned I some time ago. ?' OBA^GEBUEG, GIVE HIS X JHajar Caldwell Issues Statement Cod cercing His Position 1JUDGESHIP MATTER He Says His -Course Will be Con trolled by the Attitude of the Co lumbia Bar?Would Not Serve i n less Agreeable to the Members of It. j Major James F. J.' Caldwell,. of1 Newberry, who was I appointed by Governor Blease to hold the ap proaching Common Pleas Court for Richland county, pie Appointment of Major Caldwell followed the recom mendation of Ex-Attorney General 5ay by the Supreme Court, calling j forth a spirited letter from Governor I Please to the Court, gave out the [following statement on Friday -in reference to the matter. In a calm [and dispassionate statement, pour ing oil on the storm-tossed waters (between the executive and the ju dicial departments. Major Caldwell I says: Governor Blease called me by tel ephone about noon on Wednesday, the 1st instant, and, on my answer ing, inquired if I would consent to' hold j the term of the Court of Con mon'Pleas for Richland county, to! tiegin on Monday, the 6th instant. I replied that I was willing to hold that court, but added that I would not do so unless the appointment was acceptable to the local bar. To this he replied that it was all right? cr to that effect; and after saving some words by way of kindly thought of me, he ceased to speak. His man ner indicated to my mind that he wished only to ask if it would suit me to hold the court. I was left to conjecture, whether the bar of Richland desired me, or whether they | desired some other person. I had no means of knowing whether the! bar had taken any action, or wheth er the Justices of Supreme Court had made a recommendation to ap-i point some one to hold the Court or) whether if that Court had applied to him to. make an appointment, itj rad recommended any particular person for the appointment. I wrote Governor Blease, very soon, a letter, saying that I was willing to hold, the Court, provided, either that the Bar of Richland de sired me, or that they had made no other choice. I was surprised to see In the' papers that I nad- been ap pointed to hold that term of Court. And I have been more surprised to read, in the papers that I have been commissioned to preside ' in that Court. Governor Blease Is inaccu rate in saying that I have been com missioned. The Secretary of State sent me, by mall received.yesterday morning, the 2nd, a communication to the effect that I had been appoint ed, and that on my sending to him; (the Secretary of State) the path on the back of his communication, made according to law and in proper form, I should receive my commis sion. , , I have not made the oath re quired, and I -have not receive a com mission. A few minutes after hearing Gov-I trnor Blease over the telephone. Ii wrote a letter to R. W. Shand, Esq., I and a letter to p\ H. Nelson, Esq., ' both of the Columbia bar, in each of which letters I stated the terms on j which I would accept the appoint-j ment. I had an answer from Mr. Shand l?st night. I have not heard from Mr. Nelson. . ' I wrote Chief Justice Jones a per-' sonal letter yesterday. He is at lib erty to give it such circulation as he may see fit. I did not know until yesterday that Mr. Ray had been selected by the Bar of Richland to preside over! the Court, or that his appointment had been recommended by the Su preme Court. Personally, 't does not matter to me whether I hold that Court or not. I do not need pecuniary profit from that source, or from any other .source?and as a matter of fact, with my way of living, I should not t\pect to gain a dollar beyond my expenditure. And I have written Chief Justice Jones, "I have passed beyond that period of life when a man need care for ?lory." I do not deem it properly for me to discuss the legal aspect of tne rase. I think it still less proper for me to say one word about the per sonal?or partly personal?^contro versy between the Chief Executive and the Supreme Court. The crux of the case?the point on which the matter hinges?is, to me, the wish of the Richland Bar. Without their co-operation I could do nothing. They might continue every case. Or, if I should undertake to try a case, I and all other persons must feel uncertain what I could de cide. The protest, "coram non jud ice," might be raised at any moment from the beginning to the end of! any trial in the Circuit Court, and in the Supreme Court. And I will never consent to hazard the right; of litigants by my doubtful claim to office. Court will be anxious to assist them in the disposal of the many and im portant interests committed to the managemnet of counsel. * j Governor Blease may have been rrecipitate to act, and not entirely courteous towards the Supreme Court, but it is not for me to cen-l 8. C TUESDAY. FEBUTJ sure my friend who sought to do me honor, and who, I am sure, thinks that he is exercising authority given him by the Constitution amd-the statute law of the State. Nor have t anything to say against the Jus tices of the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that they have done Just what they' thought they ought to have done. I conclude, that the matter really rests with the Columbia Bar. I am sanguine that their wishes, expressed ?oday or tomorrow,. will determine the result, for I feel confident that both the' Governor and the Supreme Superintendent of .education; as sistant's salary raised $150; stattjn eiy, $150; printing, $500; rent, $180. -Adjutant general's office: assist ant's salary raised, $150; stationery, $100. Chief game warden, no appropri ation last year. It was expected to pay this, out of gun tax. State librarian, $100 for stat'.?n eTy. Public hvlldings; $1,500 addition \zi for water;' payment on-state house j improvements of 1900; $2,022 more 'than last year;.^payments on state !hou3e improvements'?f 1904, $16, .new Item of $30,000 for.asylum 1m I 700 more than last year; an entirely provement contract for- last year (less $1.500 reduction on state house and grounds and $3,001 paid last ?<ear on the 1907 state house roof loan); making a net Increase on public buildings of $45,677.15. State department of agriculture: $5,000 additional tor 'farm demon stration work; $200 additional for expenses of inspectors , (less $1,500 for corn breeding); making a net income of $3,700. Health department: Total $12, 605.27, as follows: increase in fund for protection against contagious diseases, $5,000; salary of clerk to State health officer raised $120; de ficit for 1910, $6,085.27; State board medical examiners raised-$1,400. Educational institutions puo lished elsewhere. Tax department; $500 addition al for. State board of equalization Hospital for Insane: Maintenance, increase $25,000; Improvements, re duced from $50,000 to $35,000; de ficit, $30,226, for 1910 against $18, 662 for 1909.; Insurance $6,000; den tist, pathologist, dietician, etc., $2. 600, total net increase, $39,800. Industrial school at Florence; Maintenance, $2,500; building with heating plant, $15,000; cooking; range, cows, - sewerage, tailor shop, plumbing, etc., $1,972. Senate, ? for new, carpet aud screens, $1,500. House, for pay of-bno extra clerk, $120; extra pay of the clerk in buy ing furniture, $3'5; extra pay sergeant at arms purchasing furni ture, and ? disposing of furniture, $129.50; extra, pay, E. M Rucker, buying furniture'$35. * BEATEN AND ROBBED. / Thieves Bind and Leave Their Victim Unconscious.. vi'.'')'.'.;;'-v':V"'~.-':' Between 8 and 9 o'clock Monday night, Mr. Roe, the night operator z.t Virgin, on the Southern "railway, a few miles north of Macon, Ga., was knocked in the head by an unknown negro and white man and robbed of a gold watch valued at J 3 5 and a small amount of cash! , After com mitting their crime they placed the white signals on the board at the station, so that no. trains would stop there. . ' Operators on the line between At lanta and Macon made repeated ef forts to get the operator at Virgin over the wires. The crew of a freight train stopped there early Tuesduy morning to investigate why the op erator failed to respond to the calls and discovered him lying on the floor in an unconscious condition, profuse ly covered with blood. There was a large hold In the side of his" head and his face was terribly bruised. His nose was also broken. A physician was hurriedly summoned from Macon in an automobile and the wounded man was placed in the Ma con hospital, where his wounds were dressed. MADE THEM PAY WELL. Men Who Fought in Sparenburg Fined Very Heavily. Mayor Lee, of Ppartanburg, In the police court Saturday fined the Flem ings and the Lres. who engaged'in a I pistol battle in the streets the day before, $950. Roland Lee was charged with I shooting in the city limits, disorderly conduct and carrying concealed weapons. In the first case he was fined $400 or 120 days or $100 a shot. Mayor Lee made a separate offense out of each time he shot: For disorderly conduct he was fined $100 or 30 days and for carrying coa cealed weapons he was fined $50 or 3 0 days. Roland Ffemlng and Miles Flem ing were alao fined $200. The n<" gro who came near getting mixed up in the affair was discharged. He proved that he did not take an ac tive part in the fight. The men gave bond and it is understood will appenl to the mayor through attorneys for a reduction In the fines. Tried to Burn Victim. Two white men and a negro broi.e into the bedroom of John Baton, at Orange, N. J., one night and lelled Baton with a blackjack after he had put up a fight. Then they ransacked his pockets and escaped after binding and gagging their victim and sou ins a pile of papc-rs alongside him oa fire. A policeman rescued Baton. * JARY 7, 191 I i AWFUL SCOURGE j M a Siegle Person Who Takes lb e Dis ease Escapes Deatb. THOUSANDS ARE DYING I A Deadly Disease is Sweeping China and the Nation Seems Powerless to Check It?Physicians Are Sac rificing Their Lives, Bat the Dreud . ed Epidemic Continues. The most deadly ? scourge in tha world's history is sweeping the Chi nese empire and Manchuria.- Thou sands of lives have been "lost and all the resources of science are prov ing unavailing in their fight against the ignorance and superstition of the natives and the unsanitary conditions in which they live. To date every case reported to the authorities has proveh fatal, the majority within 24 hours of infection. 1 Foreign missionaries, chiefly .the Americans, are leading in promoting effective meahs of combating the insidious malady French and Anier ioan physicians are bending every ef fort to save the lives of the Orien tals but to date their efforts appeal to have gone for naught and many experts declare that the death. roll will reach millions uniess warm weather sets in and kills the germs. The eagerness of the Chinese gov ernment to stamp out the disease was shown this week when the Wai Wu-Pu authorized Dr. Wu, in charge of the native city of Harbin, to burn 2,000 coffins containing corpses of plague victims. Owing to . the fact that^the earth is frozen few of the dead have been buried. Troops will be ordered to. the scenes where bodies are to be,"burned for the ancestor worship of the Chi nese makes the burning of dead bod ies almost equal to a crime. It is predicted dead bodies will be burned in all the infected districts though' it is feared this drastic move maj cause rioting and bloodshed. In ad dition Prince Rupert has decreea that posthumous honors shall be ac corded physicians who lose their lives while fighting the plague and $90, 000 has beon appropriated for a prevention campaign. China has been notified that the United States, has accepted her invi tation to send scientists to the Far East to study the malady. In Pekin. where only a few deaths have oc curred, the foreign legations have laid In stores for the next three months and American Minister W. J. Calhoun has offered missionaries refuge in the American quarters This was declined because the work ers did not wish to have their activ ities hampered. American business men, tourists and missionaries are being looked after in all the cities where there are legation houses and where there are none they are urged to go to cities where there are. But to add to the difficulties of the situation all rail-, road traffic has been cut oft in mc=t parts of the vast empire and whr??? trains are still in operation ol.) such as have clean certificates o. health are allowed to travel. Dr. A. P. Peck, American medical attache to the Chih Li provincial gov ernment,' who is devoting himself to investigations in the infected dis tricts north of the great wall says: "The plague is wholly of the pneu monic type, because the bacillus en ters the lungs in breathing. The bacillus appears under the micro scope to be the same as that of the bubonic type. It is propagated only oy close contact. The bacillus does not go far througih the air outside of the body. -It dies quickly when breathed fresh from the lungs of an infected person. It finds an enor mous culture bed in the mucous membrane of the lungs and multi plies rapidly. There being no lym phatic glands to protect the system and strain out the bacilli the dis ease is rapidly fatal in 100 per cent of cases. "Rats and fleas are no factor in infection, which is wholly through the breath and sputum. While it would be possible for fleas to carry the baccillus and infect a person with the bubonic type of plague, practi cally this does not occur. Regard ing the efficiency of Haffkine's serum I do not know and reserve judg ment." ? Pup Saves Two Lives. Rex, an overgrown St. Bernard puppy owned by David Wilson, a far mer of Bogata, N. J., sived the lives of Wilson's two children when they fell into an icy pond. After placing them on the ground the dog ran to the farmhouse and fetched the fath Would Do It Cheaper. Owen J. Jones, a farmer living hear Ebensburg, Pa\, has thrown a bomb among the candidates for coun ty commissioner in Cambria county. He states he will take the job for $2,000 a year though the law speci fies the salary shall be $4,000. Jones says $2,000 is all the job is worth. * Ho Wab Fixed Up. While seated in a barber's cha'.r in Vassar, Mich., Mike Brophy, a far mer, commented tiiat he .vinted to be fixed up to .-'p. That" evening while at the suoper table be was stricken with heart failure and died. . * A TALE OF THE SEA BOTTLE WITH NEWS ABOUT FOUNDERED SCHOONER. First News of the Missing Vessel Since Her Mysterious Disappear ance Over a Year Ago. According to' press dispatches a bottle picked'up .on the shore at Lewes, Del., Thursday,. contained a message from the crew of the schoon er Robert McQuillen, which sailed from MysticiTConn., on December 19, 1909, for Charleston, but which was lost in. a storm when only a; few days out, and never heard of again. Nothing was ever learned of how the schooner was wrecked', or if an3" of the crew were saved. The mes sage sealed up in-the bottle, which was found Thursday at Lewes, by Surfman Timmons, of the Henlopen Life Saving Station, is the first light shed upon the fate of the schooner. Following is the brief story contained on the piece of paper found in the . "We are just leaving schooner Mc Quillen. She is about to go down. Capt. Williams and mate are whsheo. overboard arid no one. left but cvew We are just, leaving her in boai auo. hope to be picked up soon. Nothing In sight at present. Hope this will be found by some one, as we cannot live much longer in this weather.'' The News and Courier says the schooner Robert McQuillen carried a cargo of 660 tons of fish scrap, con signed to Theo J. Simons, Jr,, chem icakbroker, of this city.. The cargo was shipped by H. J. Baker & Brota .er, of New -York city, importers oi fertilizer materials and also dealers In domestic fertilizers. On the morn ing of/ the 19th of December, 190i?, the schooner sailed from' Mystic," a port on the Connecticut coast, un ter the command of Capt. E. T. Williams, of Lewes, Del. Capt. Williams, was sailing the vessel for Capt: Robert .McQuillen, the commander of the rcbo^ner. who happened to be off on his Christmas vacation. 'Capt. Mc Quillen had often sailed his schooner to Charleston/and was well known' here, being regarded as OtV-i of the best skippers in the trade. For weeks Interested parties bn? both ends of the line waited for some word from the schooner. It-w as not ?until:' the' 26th of February of last year?two months .after the vessel had sailed from Mystic port, that she was reported probably lost in th<j storm which swept the Atlantic coast about Christmas time of 1909. The note found-in the bott'e lasr Thursday was written on a piece of brpwn paper, presumably about the time the crew abandoned the schoon er. It will never bo known just what time the note was written, as .it was not dated, or where it was written, as the latitude nor" longitude were mentioned.1 -It has always been the general opinion that the vessel en countered -the storm a few days after iputtirig'out to sea. The captain and' some members of the crew were from Lewes, Del., and friends there had been patiently waiting to hear som'e news from their loved ones. v It is rather remarkable that the message should have found Us way to .the hOme port fourteen months after the vessel was lost. RUSE SNARES BANDIT. Ontlaw Summoned as a Witness and . . . .. Then Nabbed.. Dioncio Martinez, one of the most desperate bandits who ever operated on-the Mexican frontier, was arrested in Nuevo Laredo, Tex., this week, by a ruse. He has been operating 25 years and this is the first time he has been jailed. In that time it is charged that he has committed nine murders in Texas, while there are many charges against him in Mexico. He was recently located on a ranch near Nuevo Laredo, where he was unmolested by the Mexican authori ties. Sheriff Wilson, of Wilson coun ty, Texas, succeeded in .having the Laredo authorities summon him as a witness in a fake case. When be en tered the court room he was sur rounded by police and captured with out a fight. e iMartiuez was for years head of the famous Sonora banditti, to whom are attributed no less than 50 murders along the Rio Grande and many rob beries and other deeds of outlawry.* Rich Men in Jail. Five rich Southern lumbermen have entered the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., to serve sentences for peonage. The cases were the first to arise in the South and their pros ecution was pushed \igorously by the Department of Justice. The convict ed men are W. S. Harlan, Robert Gallagher, Dr. W. E. Grace, C. C. HUton and E. S. Fuggins, all of Lockport, Ala. ' ? Caught on Moving Ice. Two men and three women, who dad been fishing on hh?-. ??t. Mary's river near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., had a narrow escape from drawning when a "C mile ga1-3 oroke up the ice on the river. They leaped from cake to cake until they reached shore nearly exhausted. * Fell in Hot Lard. The two-year-old son of Charles Kreighauser, living near Thomas, Okla., died 24 hours after having fallen into a kettle of boiling lard. The child was playing in the yard while the parents were busy butch O CENTS PBB COP* MET TRAGIC END Robeil H. Floyd is Shot Tour Times by Mrs. N. M. Hayi s in Her fiome. SAYS HE INSULTED HER Floyd Was Well Known in Charles ton, Where He Was Attending the Medical College, and Left There on Saturday to Visit Friends in North Carolina. ' Shot four : , times- and instantly killed by Mrs. N. M. Hayes in her home at'Tabor, N. C, just across the Horry line,, late Saturday evening, was the fate of Robt. ,M.'Floyd, a native of Horry county, and a stu dent at the South Carolina Medical college at Charleston. Three snots took effect in the body and one in the centre of the forehead, i /? ? Only a few minutes , before , his death, Mr. Floyd-had driven up to the Hayes home and had been invited|in to spend the evening by ,the husband* of the young won!an. Floyd went in the honse and while Mr. Hayes was ungearing the horse, he-heard four pistol shots. He rushed in the house where he found his friend lying dead and his wife standing by.-' ? Her only answer to iVPr. Hayes' questioning was that Floyd had insulted iher and she had killed him. Mr. 'Floyd arrived 1n Tabor Satur day from Charleston, having come home to spend Saturday and Sunday with his parents near Gallivant's fer ry. Parties living in Conway were on the train with Mr.' Floyd when he got off at Tabor: He stated to tVem that he stopped there:to look after his farm during the day,.that-a horse and. buggy would meet him either at Tabor or at Loris, a nearby town, and that he w^s going to spend.-the night at Tabor and drive'out to his home this morning. Probably no further cause other than the woman's statement will ever be known,v as'Mrs." Hayes--was alone in the house, when she did the shoot ing. From ? a- brother of the dead, man it was ie?Tned that^Mr. Floyd had gone'to the house, where he met his death, for the purpose of collect ing for books which he had sold dur ing his vacation. There are conflicting rumors as to Mr. Hayes' -meeting Mr.'Floyd at the gate and asking him' in, although, it is known that' the two 'young men were close friends.- Mr. Hayes run3 a barber shop, at Tabor and it is stated, that on Saturday evenings the rush of business at' the place makes* it necessary tbat M^.'.Hayes remain-, at the shop very sate. News of the a^ful occurrence was a shock to the people of Conway where Mr. Floyd has lived and: worked-for a nuinber, of years. He was- colporter for the'-Waccamaw Baptist association, which work car ried him into the best homes of this county and of Mariqn county, where he traveled quite a gobd deal during the-past1 several years.; . v?f : ' Three wears-ago he resigned this work to' accept a. ? position ?': ? s head bookkeeper in the Bank of Conway, now the First National Bank of Con way. He' spent several monUs in this capacity until'the summer of 1 909, when he resigned this position and made the race in this county for clerk of court: He made, a splendid race but was defeated and-, later en tered the-South Carolina Medical Col lege at| Charleston where'-he would have graduated in April. It was Mr. Floyd's intention to op en a drug store in Conway this sum mer.' While here during the Christ mas holidays he practically com pleted the organization of a company for this purpose. Young Floyd was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Math Floyd of near Galli vant's ferry in this county. He was about SO years of. age, of sphmdid educational qualifications, having taught in the schools of the county for quite awhile, of pleasant- address and pleasing personality. ?He was modest and gentle and just why he should be killed in this man ner and within six or eight minutes after his arrival at the homo of a friend can not .be explained here. Mrs. Hayes, the slayer, is a young woman. She is a daughter of J. J. E. Harrelson of Loris ar.d a sister of D. D. Harrelson of Lor' ? formerly coun ty superintendent of education in t his county and later a member of the general assembly from this county. She and Mr. Hayes were mar-ied about three years ago. since which time they have lived happily together at Loris, where the husband conduct ed a store and ran a barber shop. During the fall they left Loris and ' moved to Tabor, a North Carolina town, about seven miles from Loris.. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have one child about-a year old. Human Brute. Charged with having his sweet heart, Miss Lillie Liford, 17 years of age. Louis Skelton, 26, is in jail at Bloomington, In?*. Skelton pour ed kerosene oil over the girl and then set her afire because she broke their engagement. * Peculiar Accident. While indicating a high tension wire to an assistant the current leap ed across a gap of three feet and caused the' death of William J. Gar vin, of East Hampton, Mass. The accident is one of the most peculiar recorded. t?