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WHY SHE DID IT Mrs. Hayes Says Sh* Hid te Shoot Floyc in Dcfeoce of Her Honor. SHOT HIM NINE TIMES At Coroner's Investigation, Slayei of Yoiinft Medical Student Testifies That She Shot to Defend Her Honor, its Floyd Had Idiid Hands I'pon Hit to Assault Her. Fact8 brought out at the inquest over the body of Robert H. Floyd which was held at Tabor, N. C., Monday. make the story of the killing even more sensational than at first reported. Mrs. Hayes was the only witness at the inquest and coolly, calmly and deliberately she told hei story, without a tremor and apparently without being moved. Nine times she shot him, according to her account -seven times while in a struggle, emptying a Colt's automatic revolver. After she and Floyd had fa'len through her bedroom door on the floor of the hall. Mrs. Hayes got tip, went back into the room, got another pistol and shot him twice more. The reason assigned liy the woman for her act is that Floyd made an improper proposal to her and upon her resenting it laid hands on her and tried to overcome her by violence. It was learned from Tabor late Monday afternoon that N. M. Hayes, the husband, and his brother, Lloyd Hayes have both been arrested and taken along with Mrs. Hayes to tin jail at Whlteville, the county seat ol Columbus county. There was no intimation given as to what connection Lloyd Hayes had with the tragedy or why he had been arrested. A letter was found in Flovd's pocket from Mrs. Hayes, written to (him in CI, .rioston, in which he was asked to come to Tabor as soon as he could conveniently do so and treat some moles which Mrs. Hayes had on licr face. Floy!, who had come local reputation as a "cancel doctor." it is stated, had successfully treated moles for Mr. Hayes and foi this reason both he and his wife were desirous that he should treat those of Mrs. Hayes. The letter was of the friendliest nat> "o and Flavd was urged to conic as s >on as possible and assured that his ? xjienses would be borne and that he would be paid for his trouble. He and Mrs. Hayes had been sweethearts previoi - to her marriage to Hayes, nnd the two men bad been rivals for her hard at the same time. Floyd, with this letter, came tc Talior and first called upon Mr, Have at his place of business down town, showed him the letter and told him lie was at his service. Hayes who v.s often detained down town late in connection with his store and barber sl op, told the young man tc go on up to the house and insisted that lie trkc supper and spend tlit light. From this point nothing vis knowr ixcopt what is learned from M,-s lyes' account of the killing. Aftei ?nt ring the home Floyd was ki'lec before even removing his hat or o.er CCKiT. Mrs. Hayes testified before lh< coroner's jury that Floyd came t< the door of her home, which wai locked; that she opened it; that the; spoke and he rn.tde inquiry about he moles, which he had come to treat he then made an insulting pronosa to her. which she resented, and tha he then laid violent hands on her. That .Mrs. Hayes acted coolly am deliberately and fully intended li kill Floy 1 is borne out by furthe statement in her testimony: "W tussellcd toward the head of I he lied when I ran m> hands under the pil low. got an automatic revolver, an< holding it close to his breast I sho hint seven times. I was runnin; backward toward the door and h holding tne. We fell out the doo together, when I went back and go another pistol and shot hint twic more." The nine shots took effect, punr tnring It's body from the waist tin to the f rehead. "I had always considered him gentleman when he had been to on house several timer- before." was tu Afil inifltn nut nn tho .lo/.i.noiwl K?? I* i si yer. Mrs. Have: was the onl p' : ;on j-.nt on the s.aml and she r? la ted 'ter story calmly and listinrtlj Hr hits .and, standing nearby, ev denced not the least eonrern, v . Ibid Neurit Shot. I Pearly Knrtz. a negro, was shot t de;?t^ !>v n rosso of men who hn ,v ""HvaMtod him for miles, near Mon r<?s?>, (}?,, Monday afternoon, nft 1 the neoro had shot and wounded 1) J .1. Wall and the negro driver < the doctor's vehicle. Dr. Wall hi been called to attend three negro 4 who were shot in a row., and Kut Interfered, Dr. Wall knocked hi down and the negro ant hushed bl later. The physician was not serloti ly wounded. Rending maketh a full man. co f >ncc a ready man, and writing cx man. lilTii in iwfcB?i ... . LOSES HIS OFFICE PROTECTING VICE CAUSES MAY* ' OR'S DOWNFALL. Mayor Gill of Seattle Accused of Having Allowed Immoral Condi (ions and is Recalled. V * * Hiram C. Gill, elected mayor of Seattle, a year aso, was crusted from ' olRce by the voters participating In tho recall election Wednesday, and ( George W. Dilling, Public Welfare League candidate, was chosen by a plurality of 6.000 votes to serve as . nayor during the remainder of the , term for which Mayor Gill had been j elected. , ; 'When Mayor Gill was elected a ( .Oar ago he received IS,000 vot s , out of 36.000 cast. Eight months; lfter he was elected the women of 1 he State of Washington were en' franchlsed and to this fact is due the decisive victory won by the re- 1 Mil advocates in Wednesday's elec- ; 1 ion. Of the 71,000 votes registered, ' 12,000 were women and a large ma- ' ' lority of them, it is admitted, voted 1 for the recall of Mayor Gill. The 1 vot in? was heavy in all parts of the city, but the most notable increases ' were in the residence sections. The ' total was more than 60,000. Mayor-elect Hilling received 31,000: Mayor Gill 25,000, and Grown 1 (Socialist), 4.500. Gill was charged ! with protecting immorality. Dilling ' 1 will fake office on Saturday. Mayor Gill's troubles began the ' moment he announced he would ap- ' point Charles Wappenstein as chief 1 of police. Wappenstein was formerly chief of detectives in Cincinnati, lie was involved In the scandal that ^ led to the shooting of former Chief of Police 'Meredith in a street duel in the city. Pressure was brought on 1 the mayor to remove Wappenstein, nnd Wappenstein later sought to resign. ' As soon as it was announced last 1 November that tho women suffrage amendment nad neen adopted, the ! movement to recall Mayor Hill too* 1 active form under a provision of the ' city charter, and the women entered 1 vigorously into the campaign. Women stood in lino with the men at the noils, and were as quick to grasp the voting instructions as their ex! perienced men folk. SI'OlIiKI) (Oltx skizi:i>. Damaged Grain Reported From Several Sections. i Shipments of spoiled corn to South 1 Carolina have been held up by the feedstlifts department of the State partmont of agriculture. The de1 partmont was Wednesday notified by consignees in several section dl the 1 State that carload lots of corn "in a ' damaged condition had been ro ceived. Commissioner Watson, upon 1 the receipt of the messages, rushed ' inspectors of the department to ? make an investigation. 1 "The law will be vigorously enforced," said the commissioner, "and it is very probable that several of 1 the cars?of corn will have to he de stroyed." Samples of the corn sent r to the department showed it to be in 1 a decayed condition. The corn is being shipped here from without the ctat?. The spoiled corn problem has a afforded a great deal of annoyance > I A X ui in*? urjmi uiiriii. s The department lias had careful y hot antral and other analysis made r and has succeeded 1n identifying the fnngo formed in the heart of the 1 heated damaged corn, and has es1 tahllshed a good many other points which enable the men with the de' partment to identify the corn that is 0 dangerous to men and animals. The r commissioner will not permit the e corn to be shipped out of the State. ' Ten samples are drawn from ench car. il t , SERVED IIIM RIGHT. K a e I r Kansas City I.udy Wins Her Hrencli of Promise Suit. e Miss Ethel McKee. the Kansas City stenographer who sued Prof.1 e j Grant II. Crain, of Ottawa. Kan., for $2r>.noo for hreneh of promise, a got a verdict of $ 10,00ft. r Miss McKee was, at one time a e ! pupil of Prof. Cr iin, in Ottawa lie s proposed to her seven years ago, afyl'er a short acquaintance, and the I wedding day was named. When the r. time approached he asked that the i- wedding be postponed. Miss McKee had her trousseau prepared, but she acceded to the request. She testified that the wedding was postponed 0 ten times and that she had to alter 1(j her wedding dress four times hej. cause of the changing styles. jr Prof. Craln. who is now the pror nrictor of the Ottawa Business Coiof lega, wrote Miss McKee more than :100 letters. cs r f7 Wants a Divorce. m .1. O. Otey, 77 years old. a promi m nent citizen of llouderson ounty, is- Ky? lias instituted stilt for a <li vorce against his wife, Mrs. Margaret Otey. aged ft9 years, on statutorv n- grounds. Depositions of the mort hi noted physicians of l.ouisvllle are .?>. ling taken in the case. * * MOTIVE SOUGHT 4 Many Witnesses Summoned in Attempts to Prove Plot in Killing. HAYES HO ilE SEARCHED r<>urse of Hullcts Traced in Effort to KstAhlisli Direction Front Which They Were Fireil?Many Fact* Connected With the Sad Tragedy Tliat Ended Floyd'* Life. The Conway correspondent of The State says as a result of a trip he made to Tabor. Js. C., the scene of the killing of Robert M. Floyd on' Saturday last by Mrs. ltosa Hayes, j It was ascertained definitely that the1 preliminary hearing in this case will j be held on Tuesday, the 14th. at Whiteville. This date has been < agreed on by all p-srties interested. Magistrate W. C Craha 111 of Tabor has been designated to sit in the case and this mornin? he was busy binding over witnesses. I'p until noon Thursday 22 witnesses had j been bound over by the State, and. judging by the activity of the relatives of the slain man. still more, witnesses may lie summoned. All of these witnesses live in and around Tabor, and tliey have been , summoned, it is learned, in an attempt to prove a motive for the kill- i ing other than the statements made by Mrs. Hayes and to im,<ficate in the horrible affair others whom Mr. Floyd's relatives and friends claim were parties to a plot to get him to Tabor and take his life. une wttn no knowledge of the killing would be impressed on arriving at Tabor with the idea that some great calaifiity had befallen this quiet but busy little town. Notwithstanding the fact that it has been live days since the occurrence and the subsequent removal of the prisoners to Whitevllle, Tabor is yet all astir over ?lie occurrence. CI roups are gathered here nnd there, discussing the tragedy, each comparing rumors nnd theories with the other in an effort to solve the mystery surrounding the tragic death of young Floyd. The Hayes home is situated only : a few feet back from the sidewalk of a broad open side street and only about 2 00 yards from the main street of the town. Within 4 0 feet of the house on eithr-r side are other dwellings, one being a hotel which on the night of the killing was well filled with guests. Hayes' barber shop is only about 100 yards from his home. One standing at the front of the shop has an unobstructed view of the Hayes home. The house is a four room dwelling, a hall running between the two rooms on each side. The hall opens by a door on the front porch, which i door Mrs. Hayes in her testimony stated was locked. The door to her bed room, which she states that Floyd entered, is sev- | oral reel down the hall to the right, j Floyd's hat was hung on a rack on the left wall of the hall beyond the bed room door. The bed to which Mrs. Hayes states Floyd forced her stands in the extreme right hand corner of the room, but to the left of tho bed room door. Mrs. Hayes* retreat backwards followed by Floyd, as she states in her testimony, carried her the width of a room through a door into the hall, the length of this hall, through the front door and across about ten feet of porch, Floyd having been found at the extreme front of the porch with one foot ont on the top step. Those who saw Mr. Floyd before he was moved state that his form lay in such a position that anyone returning to the hall would be forced to go over his prostrate form. Mrs. Hayes' statement is that she fell out of the door ahead of Mr. Floyd and that she afterward returned to the house and secured another pistol and shot him again in the head. A thorough search was made of the lied room of the Hayes home is which the shooting is stated to have occurred. | The carpet was removed from the floor and two bullets were accounted for. One, a lead bullet, was found lodged in a sill under the floor, the course of the bullet being a downward slant, lndleatlns that it came from the direction of the ball door to the bed room. Another bullet had plowed through the top of tho floor at such a slant as to pass out through the window sash several feet from the floor. This bullet could not be found, hut was evidently fired from tho same place as the other. Mayes bought a nnmboit of steel bullets from a local hardware dealei bout ten lavs nun. stating at the time that be wanted bis wife to practice with bis new automatic. Nexl door neighbors have frequently slue then seen Mr. and Mrs. Hayes tnirel practicing with this pistol In tholi .back ynrd. Floyd bad been gone from th< 'barber shop only about I" minute I when the shooting occurred. Hur tug that time he had taken his horsi 'o a nearby livery stable and ha< made Inqiiirh'M beyond the Hayoi OUR GREATEST EVIL "MVORCE MILL A SOCIAL SCOURGE" OP THE TIMES. More IlliRlitinx Upon Family Life of (he Nation Than Moriuonisni, Says Cardinal Gibbons. "There is a social scourge more ^ blighting and more destructive of family life than Mormonism. It Is the fearfully Increasing number of livorce mills throughout the United Stages. These mills, like the mills of the gods are slowly, but surely grinding to powder the domestic altars of the nation." This is what Cardinal j Gibbons said Sunday in a sermon at \ Haltimore. The Cardinal went on , to say: j "Husband and wife are separated i on the most flimsy pretext. And as ; i if the different States of the Union It were not sufliciently accommodating 1 \ in this respect, one State has the nil- t enviable distinction of granting ujt hill of divo-ce for the mere asking < 1 of it, on the sole condition of a brief s so;ourn within her bor.iers. |\ "1 can conceive no scene more j \ pathetic nor one that appeals more j 1 touchingly to our sympathies than the contemplation of a child emerg-1 I ing into the years of discretion see- ' 1 ing her father and mother estranged i C from each other. Her little heart ; I is learning to love. She longs to cm- I ( brace both parents, but she finds that I she cannot give her affection to the 1 one without exciting the resentment 11 or displeasure of the other. p "A lady prominent In social life ! once said to me in Newport "1 do i not recognize any law. human or ell- 1 vine that can deprive a husband or ? wife of the right to separate and to ( enter fresh espousals when they do ' > not live in harmony together.' J i " 'You speak.' I replied, 'of your f rights: your privileges. Itut you I have not a word to say for your du- t ties and obligations.' j 1 "Ah! my brethren, if men am! wo- 1 men had due consideration for their i ] duties and responsibilities tlieir'l rights would take care of themselves. ;: There can be no rights whore there 11 are no corresponding obligations. ! There are no rights against the law ( of God. i "If Christianity is the highest type r of civilization?and who can deny 1 it??then is it not true that we are retrograding instead of advancing on i certain lines? We glory in our sys- ( tern of universal education, in our ] enormous wealth and in our terri- ; torial expansion. Put these advan- ' tapes are not evidences of Chrfstian progress. "Two thousand years azo pagan Rome had all these temporal advan- i tapes. The wealth of the nations j( poured into her lap. Her empire ex- j' tended over three continents. She j far excelled us in the arts, in ora-i1 tory, poetry, philosophy and litera-j' ture, and in all the refinements of,1 cultivated society. Her paintings and j1 sculpture, her literary productions, ' are still our models. And yet, while ; she was in the zenith of her material and intellectual splendor she was in ' a state of moral and political decay, 1 in fact, she was lapsing into barba rism. "The most striking feature of Christ's empire is its perpetual endurance. Two thousand years ago tie was laid in the tomb, and yet lie 1 exerts today the paramount Influence 1 on the social and political as well as on the moral and religious world; such as was never wielded by any earthly sovereign. Other rulers pass in review before us and are gone. But Christ remains forever." Children Cremated. Two children were cremated, the mother seriously burned and three | other children who were dropped from a second story window were slightly hurt Wednesday when fire destroyed the home of Peter Eckland in South New Castle, Pa. Mrs. Eckland sustained burns about the body and was injured when she leaped from the window and went back for the other two. Cut off from their room by the flames, the mother was forced to leap to save her own life. Took Their Heads. A dispatch received at Paris Monday from Melilla states that four Europeans traveling from Oran, Algeria, to Melilla were decapitated by Uiff tribesmen on January 29. A fifth member of the party escaped. home as to where the house was.' Mr. and Mrs. Hnyea Having moved ' to their present home only since January 15. They moved to Tabor during December but occupied an, other house than this one till the 1 5th of January. I Leaving a brother of Mr. Floyd in . Whfteville the dead man's father, , M. T. Floyd, and a brother. Herbert Floyd, spen.t the morning In i Lorls, Mr. and Mrs. Haves' old home. , and came on to Conway this nftorI noon. It is understood that Roht. p It Scarborough of Conway will tie employed to aid in tho prosecution. The father of the deceased stated ? to your correspondent that each day - ho grows more Arm in his belief i> that a scheme was laid for his son 1 and that he grows all the moro dos termlned to seo the matter pushed PASS IT OVER Tfae House Conliitors the School Bill to Last of the Session. PRACTICALLY KILLED rill* llill Will Probably Re Taken I'p Next Session, Rut It Will Hnrdly Re Considered Again This Session, as It Was Postponed to the Very IjhsI Day. The House practically killed the lew school hill, for this se4sion at east, when it cont!r>ued it to the iast lay. The House's reversal of Its pout ion 011 the bill was a tfreat surprise. Several motions hostile to the >i!l had been snowed under, but ai lie phychcdogical moment a motion vas made to adjourn debate until be last day of this session, and this notion swept the house, the hill thus )(>in? in efect sidetracked as above dated. The vote was Git to 41!. not oting 19. Those who voted in laror of the motion to postpone the iill were: Messrs. Arnold, Ashley, Ayer, lailev, Boa 111 guard. Bowman, B. H. irown, T. P. Brown, Renter, Gary, Charles, Connor, .1. M. Daniel, Davis, )ixon. Isaac Edwards, Erckman, iary, Gilbert. Graham, Hamilton, rarrison. Hill. Hopkins. Hunter, tutto, Irliy, Jackson, Jones. Kirk and, Iceland, Lengnick, McCravey. dcDow, McQueen, Magill. Mauldin, dims, Mitchuni, Moore, Mower. 11. V. Odom, W. P. Odom, Paulling, aegues, Polk. RemAiert. Richardson, landers, Seott, Searson. P. L. Sliuler, B. D. Smith. I). L. Smith, K. 1. Imith. Stanley, Stevenson, Tobias, .Vatson, Wells, Williams, Willis. A' i 11 ga rd. Those who opposed deferring acion were Speaker Smith and Messrs. taskin, Belser, Ilethea, Bowers. )oyd, Rrice, W. L. Daniel, Dick, loar, Dohson, DuBose. Druinmond. B. C. Edwards, Eraser, Fultz, Hards, Horlbeck, James, Ketchin, Fiber, Kirvin. Ix?e, MrKeown, Manuel, Ueares, Miller, Motte, Nicholson, )sborne, Reaves. Riley, Sawyer, 3aye, C. T. Shuler, Singleton. Tlson. rurnbull, Vander Ilorst, Whisonant, Wyche, Yon mans. The absentees were Messrs. Bodie, dookter, Browning, Bryan. Chandler, "ourtnay, Karle, Evans, Gasque. (lines. Hiott, Kelleban, League. Mansfield, Nunnery, Peoples, Salley, Fodd, Vincent. Fight on the Bill. When the school bill came up Wednesday morning, under the head if "debate interrupted," consideration of the committee amendments was resumed. Mr. Mower's amendment offered the night before was idopted. This provided that the section in the bill with reference to the manner of appointing the State board if education be struck out and the following substituted: "The State hoard of education shall consist of the governor, the State superintendent of education and one member from each congressional district to be appointed by the governor." The house adopted Mr. Drummond's amendment that no aid shall be siven to high schools in tov.ns of more than 2.500 population. The committee had suggested "more than 1,000 population." Trust the People. \f? i mi . IIIUHI-I ^uumu IU uavo iKI'Jpied an amendment that the county hoards of education conslrt of live mem tiers to lie elected by the people. This was tabled on motion of Mi. Sawyer. The proposition then recurred to the committee amendment that the county boards be appointed on the recommendation of the legislative delegation. At this point the house, which had been growing more and more restless under the adopting of amendments showed more and more a disposition against the whole mattei. Mr. Williams of Aiken, who huu "preached the funeral of TIeyward county," had also started an opposition to this bill which later manifested Itself, Mr. Wingard opposed the appointing of the county hoards upon the ropenmendation of legislative delegations. He declared ^iat it would interfere with the work of the le :islatnre, d< legations would lie assailed bv applicants for positions on county boards of educnMnn and valuable time would be lost. There is that in humcn nature which likes power and persons seek positions whicn give power. He stands by the old | Democratic doctrine of letting the peonle '.'overn. The United States senators are to he elected by the people, why not other officers? Afraid of the People. Mr. Aver disagreed with Mr. Wingard lie thought this the way to get the good hoard by the use of I the nniuilntini' newer Mr. Watson of Anderson opposed the hill. Ho is in thorough accord ' with the efforts of the commission, but tho bill is the most momentous of the whole session and the .lodgment of the members of tho house it premature. The shortest and inosi concrete way of managing the schools is the ho?-t and for that r> a son he favors the hill in part, but th< I SOIL SURVEY WORK THE UK HAS HE EN MITH PKO(JltKtU M ttiV IV np??.^ ......... ... iu.1 ni.'ilh, Prominent Government Experts in Columbia Are I'lenseil With the Conditions. H. H. Henet. general field agent ^ of the United States soil survey, and C. I.. '\!ariatt, acting chief of the United Stat??s bureau of entomology, were In Columbia Wednesd iv for a conference with K. .1. Watson, commissioner, relative to the soil survey work in South Carolina. The opinion was expressed by the officials that much progress had been made in the work during the year. The assurance was given that the work will lie extended in this State daring the year. In his annual renort to the general assembly Mr. Watson has nih following to say with referent to the soil survey work: "The bureau of soils, of the United States department of a r.culture. conducted s ?U su'\ v South Carolina during the year 1 < I o and complete I a survey of Clarendon county, comprising an area of 7 in square miles, making in ail 1 "> suiveys completed to date in the State and aggregating S.S30 square miles, or 5.find.000 acres. The assignment* for the present winter season include surveys of Georgetown and Fairfield counties, the work on the former county being started about December 1, 1010. The following list gives the names of the areas surveyed and tho number of square miles covered in each: Area. Sq. Ml. Abbeville area l.OuO Anderson county 7.">0 Cnmpohello area ' 1 "? Charleston area 3 .">2 Cherokee county 3?>i clarendon county 7 10 Conway area .r?02 Darlington area f?02 Lancaster county -lSn l.ee county Ill Oconee county 6f>2 Orangeburg area 70'j Saluda county 4?.b Sumter county 587 York county f>69 "Any of the above reports which are available can be obtained by making application to the chief of the bureau of soils, United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. *'Soll survey work is progressing necessarily slowly. In its last annual report this department pointed | out the needs of State aid to soil survey operations, and treated the entire subject fully. "* "The survey made of Clarendon county this year. The conditions encountered in the Clarendon county survey were simil.tr to t' < o previously described, and the soil survey types are all establish-d ones grouped in the coastal plains province. ACCI SKI) OK S! WINK (illtL. Whispered Statement 2'roin Dying Lassie Causes Arrest. A whispered statement from the lips of a dying girl resulted in the arrest at Aurora, 111., Wednesday of (leorge Kara/.e, in connection with the murder of pretty Florence Salvolm, sixteen years old, and known there as the "Queen of Little Hungary." The police learned that Florence IC/irfl'/o nlji nnml tn olatm i.??* night, and in anticipation of tho romance, Florence had drawn several hundred dollars from the bank. Karaze admitted he shot tho "queen." "1 pointed tho pistol at her in fun." lie explained. "Then I got excited and pulled the trigger. I emptied the .chambers of the revolver before 1 realized what I had done." The money Florence drew from the bank is missing. The Idea. "Should you say 'Hello!' to tno tolenhono girl if she is a widow?" "Certainly, unless she is a grass widow; then von should say 'Hay, there!' '*?Paltiniore .'un. provisions for carrying out the law re objectionable. lie doc s not believe in the appointive power. They who use it are inflm need by favoritism. in his county the\ have had superintendents of education, but if this bill passes the future would bo uncertain. Tie Is willing to trust tbo people to elect county superintendents. Tin* Final Voce. Mr. Moore of Abbeville moved to adjourn debute until the last day of the session. The chair annoiin,-ed the result as opposed to Mr. .Moore's amendment. Mr. Oabo-ne moved to l consider. Mr. Wyelie moved to table. P.y a vote of C? 1 to 42 the "house refused to table. The vote was than tnken <>n Mi <> home's motion ^ to reconsider. This resulted In favor or the motion. The house having reconsidered, the question then catuh , back to adjourning; debate until the i 1 >st day of the sos ion, Mr. Moore's i lotion. The resu t. aa announced I : hove, was to 4V, and the matter < was Anally disposed of for this ios sIon in that, way for It would be useI ?ss to discuss il?e bill on the last * day of tho session.