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. THE HAYES' Is the Verdict of the Jur; at Whiteville, N. THE VERDICT WAS A SURPRI ) 1 he B illet-Riddled Garments of the Dei / Over Which the Father and Sister < While Mrs Hayes Sat Apparently Unr Awful Tragedy Which Stirred the Lit Mrs Hayes Tells the Her Story of thi SjGave the Coroner's Jury only in Del Severe Cross Examination. WEDNESDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Wbiteville, K C., March ID.?Thh i the third day tof the sensational trial of Mrs Rosa D Hayes, as principal, and Neill Hayes, tho husband, \ and Lloyd Hayes, the brother-in-law, as accessories after tho fact, for the murder of Robert M Floyd, which is alleged to have occurred at Tabor, on the night of February 4th last, at the home of the Hayes. On account of Ihe prominence of the parties connected with the deplorable tragedy public sentiment inith? trial remains at wtiite heat and will probabl/ remain so until the end is reach. The progress of the trial is necessarily slow on account of there being no stenographer to tase the testimony down in shorthand and irom the further fact that every inch of the ground is being hotly contested by counsel the employed in the case. It is hard to foreshadow public opinion on the subject oi the guilt or innocence of the accused as both sides have numerous strong frieuds who do not hesitate to express their opinion according to the stand they have taken, The theory of the prosecution is jealousy on the part of the husband and pi }ue on that of Un mnm n n .-???/! oil t ho t.CSt.i mi 111 V t.O - VUC VT 1711' ULi U"U Ull kuv '"J day was aii effort to establish this theory. Thus far it appears that Lloyd Ht yes has been in no wayeriminaily connected with the case, and but little testimony has been introduced to show that Neill Hayes had knowledge that Floyd wouj'l be killed by his wife, and at the end of the testimony today the solicitor announced that he would nol pros the case against Lloyd Hayes. The Judge ruled that this defendant was entitled to a verdict of acquittal and it was so ordered. Decidedly and Emphatically Sensational. The sensation of the day was the terrible onslaught upon the charac- j ter of Miss Mary Holt, of near Coni it .Kf T I w^y, Dy counsel lor mo ueieutu. ju i her direct testimony Miss Holt had testified that Mrs Hayes had made such remarks to her that led one to believe that she was unhappy with her husband and that she loved | Robert Floyd; and, upon eros^ examination, Attorney Schulken conducted a most severe attack upon the young woman's character; feeling was intense, the examination was awfnl, dealing as it did with the ipost delicate of subjects, and during the while a pin drop could have been heard in the Court room. Miss Holt admitted that Mrs G j1die Prince, with whom oje was living at Loris thought it best for ^ ^ her to leave her home, because a x young man on the place "objected to her health." She admitted that she had heard rumors against her moral character, but denied flatly that nnv nf the reports were true. Miss Holt's testimony was the first to introduce the idea of jealousy on the part of Neill Hayes.?News aud Courier. The first witness in today's proceedings was Dr L Baggett, who testified substantially to what he ht did at the inquest and published in the Herald immediately following the killing/ 4D C Fussell, Cashier of the Bank of Tabor, identified letter of Neill Hayes to Floyd, (already published in the Herald.) He was in the barber shop the evening of the shooting. Witness then told Hayes he'd better go to hi9 house at once, whereupon Hayes said "come on, beys, let's see what the trouble is," and two or three man went with him. On crojs examination the defense laid great stress on the point that Hayes y? told Floyd that it would be an hour before he would be home to supper " and that, thereupon, Floyd went on towards Neill Hayes' house, with out putting up his horse at the stables; this in spite of Floyd's declaration that he was going to spend the night at Tabor. On redirect examination Mr Fussell testified that it was not too dark for him him, standing at Hayes' barber shop, to see people at the Hayes' residence after the shooting. He said on recross examination, that from where young Vaughn Watts was standing it would have been impossible to have seen persons oh the porch of the Hayes house This is a strong point for the defense in that it completely contradicts the testimony of young Watts. W A Prince indentified the letters sent to Floyd urging him to come to T'abor as beirg in the handwriting ot Mrs Hayes. W J Hughes, a druggist a* Loris, S C., testified that he saw Floyd at Loris Saturday afternoon and that NOT GUILTY y in the Sensational Trial C., Last Week. SE TO FLOW'S FRIENDS. ad Yoifng Man Submitted in E/id3n:e >f the Deceased Sobbed and Wepted noved by the Mute Witnesses of the ttle Village of Tabor, North Carolina, e Crime Which Differed from that She *' IT_. L?1 U., r, ail?ner leHiununy uu&iiutvcncu uj ? be knew Floyd left his office between 4 and 5 o'clock that afternoon saying he was going to Tabor. W T Watson saw Floyd at Loris at 1 o'clock on the day of the killing. Witness was at Tabor when the killing^was done. He said Floyd told him that he was going out to nis (Watson's) house to spend the night. T his was a contradiction of Floyd's statament that he was going to spend the night at Ta'oor. The Star Witness for the Prosecution. Miss Mary Holt, of near Conway, was weil acquainted with R M Floyd and knows Mrs Hayes and Neill Hayes. "One day last September," said the witness, 4T was at the llaycs house at Loris, while Mrs Hayes was over at Mrs Iklers making oer Duoy a cress Neill Hayes came in and I said, ;iyou see I am keeping house " "Yes, I see," says Hayes, bui where is KosaT' I told him, anc he said: 'Ain't Bob Floyd over there," to which I replied I did not knew, but that he was in town. Hater, according to witness, Mrs Hayes came on home, ?.nd on the way met her husband Mrs Hayes asked Hayes if she might have Floyd treat her moles, to which Ha.y as repli d: "No, you cannot; when those moles are treated they will be by a gentleduao and no " uob " ? ? ? i i n a damned rascal as iioo r loyti, "Then," said Miss HjP, ''Mrs Hayes come on to the hou e anu told mo this and about Neili being jealous of hor and that if he did no' q uit fussing with her she was going to leave him, gj somewhere, changt her name and study for a traiuei nurse, and that Rob Floyd would gc with her." "Mrs Hayes and I," continued the witness, "were goiug down town later that afternoon and wt met Mr Floyd driving out of town in his buggy; he spoke to me jusi a few words, then he turned to Mr* Hayes and said: "Rosa, are you going to do what you were speaking of this mornjing?" "Why?" asked she. "Weil, I would not if I were ir your place," was Floyd's reply. * Ic is just according how the future turus out," said Mrs Haves "All right, then," was Floyd s reply and he drove off. With a view of breaking down the witness's testimony, Attorney Sehulkeu asked Miss Holt a number | of questions as to reports reflecting upon her character. Miss Holt adj mitted that she had beard such reI ports, but denied that they were true O L Blackburn, next called, had boarded in the Hayes home at Loris before they moved to Tabor last November. He had worked for Hayes at the store at Loris for about two years. Witness had often heard Neill Hayes and his wife talk about Floyd. Sometimes Mrs Hayes would ask her husband: "Where have yon been, cut with the grls?" "No," would be Hayes' reply, "but I am going because you have been with Morgan Boyd and Robert Fioyd^ you have had your good time, why not 1 mine?" Witness said he took all this as a joke. About August 1, 1910, I mailed a letter from Mrs Hayes to E'loyd; I addressed the letter to Floyd upon Mrs Hayes request. Witness was at Mrvtle Beach August 21 of last year; Mrs Hayes had told him she was going to Wilmington to see her brother. On Monday, August 22 Neill Hayes wanted me to go up with him to Chadbourn to meet his wife, but he did not know whether or not she was coming that day; she did not reach Loris on Tuesday Upon arrival of train on Monday I heard Neill say he would like to know Mrs Hayes' reason for not coming back; also heard Neill ask > kali ' Kha' ivhorn cJid n'n c "? 1 a J.1UJTCO UlWl'UVI fl UV U UUV ! Ml} and received the reply that he had left her at Southport and that Floyd was there also. Luther Harrelson saw Mrs Hayes and Robert Floyd on the same tain Sunday, August 21; they were not together at any time on the train Oq cross examination the witcess testified that Mrs Hayes' brother met her at Wilming on; saw both Floyd and Mrs Hayes on j boat and at Southport; 'hey stayed ! at the O'Quinn house that night, I but did not see them together or in conversation. W O Quir.n, of Southport, said the two Harrelson brothers, Mrs Haves Floyd were at his horn 5 Sunday, August 21. He said late Sunday afternoon he accomp&nitd Mrs Haves to the boat, landing. uit that Continued on Page Eight, i i THIS HORRY HERALD: 1 Attacks School Principal. A severe attack on school principal, Cbas B Allen, of Sylvania; Ga., is thus told by him: "For more than throe years," he writes, *4 tuffoVed indheribable torture from rheumatism, liver and stomach trouble and diseased kidnevs. All remedies failed till 1 used Electric Bitters, but four bottles of this wonderful remledy cured me completely." 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C : : I' Subscribe for the Herald. rHURSPAY MARCH, 1C, 1011,, State of South Carolina, J County of Horry ( COURT OP COMMON PLEAS Joseph M Gaise, PlalnMflf, ngttins* | George W Bryan', T r Hardee, W M H??rd?'? and >1 1 C<hes uuf, I)?-fen ducts. Copy Summons for Relief (Complaint not Served) To the Defendants: George W. Bryant, T. P. Hardee, VV. Al. liardec ami M. I. Chestnut. You are Hereby summoned and required toun*\v?rthe complaint in Mi's uc ion, wbicli has been tileJ in the ? ftloe - - /ti ? i- / +\ - /^i * /I. .? ,?JV. MI me l/'ICnt OI UIH U'lUtl l?i v. > 111 u?u Plea-, lor the said county, and to eerv a C' py of your ?newer to the s-.ld complaint ou the subscriber at his ! f 11 oo at Conway. S. 0., wi'hin twenty days aftei the service herool; exclusive of the day ofsttch service; and if you fail to answi r the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the [ con plaint. January 28 b, A D 1911. 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Vina, S, C. 49. ?M?W?W?y Notice of Discharge. Notice is hereby given that the dersigned, D. A. Spivey, as adnistrator of ihe estate of Mrs berta Lundv, deceased, will ap' before the i .rt of Probate of irrv County, at 11 o'clocl: in tho enoon, on the ti.&t day of April P 15)11. for a liual discharge as h administrator. D. A. Spivey, Admiivstrator of Mrs lioberta ndy, Deceased. Marofc 1st, A. D. 1911, ' "iii