The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-16
,HaYEs HEARING POSTPONED.
Counsel ON Both Sides Wish Time
to Gather Evidence.

Whiteville, N c.. February IA.
Special: Vague and indefinite
rumors continue to be circulated
here as to what the State will at
tempt to show as a motive for the
shooting TO death, recently, at Mt.
Tabor, of Robert M. Floyd, a medi-
cal student, of Charleston, S. c., by
Mrs. N NJ Hayes, who claims that
she acted in defence of her honor.
Mrs. Hayes is in Jail awaiting pre-
hmineary hearing on charge oi
murder, and her husband and his
brother Floyd Hayes, Ia years old,
fare also in jail. charged with being
accessories before the fact.
The preliminary hearing was first
announced to be held here last
week, but has been postponed to
some future date, yet to be select
ed, the delay, perhaps, being oca-
stoned on account of the fact that
counsel on both sides desire fur
;ther time in which to prepare for
the legal battle, which will likely
take place at the trial, which will
be held before justice w. G. Ora
ham. of Mount Tabor, before whom
the warrants were issued. ID. ].
Lewis was retained yesterday as
counsel for the prosecution, and
he spent to-day at Mount Tabor in
.vestigating the shooting and in
search of any possible motive FOR
conspiracy.
NJ. T. Floyd, father of the young
man killed, and julius I. Floyd,
brother, of Gallivant's Ferry, s. c.,
spent yesterday here, the elder Mr..
Floyd having expressed the firm
conviction that his son was the vic
tim of n conspiracy to murder him
by Hayes, and asserts that he wants
to see justice donie. He stated that
three letters were found in the
pockets of his son from the Hayeses,
one from Mrs. Hayes asking that
he come here and treat her for
mole, and also one from her hus-
band, requesting the same thing,
while the contents of the htird let
ter were not given out, but are said
to have some bearing on the case.
1t is understood that probably the
prosecution will contend that Floyd
and Mrs. Hayes, prior to the latter's
marriage, were sweethearts, and
that Mrs. Hayes husbands ieal-
ousy, even of the past affair of the
heart of the two, was intensified
ause she frequently threw up"
her former lover: that he
rne this as long as he could,
,hen demanded that some
p,c.aa be arranged by which Floyd
could be enticed to the home for the
purpose of killing him; that the
letters relative to the mole were
written with this in view; that
Floyd went in response to the let
ters, and that he was killed by shots
from either one of the three now
under arrest, probably one OF the
men,
1t is hardly thought that a case
will be made out against the de-
PENDANTS, as there has been found
no oLe but Mrs. Hayes herself who
pretends to have been present as
the time of the shooting.
The defence will set up that what
happened at the home at the time
of the shooting occurred on the
spur of the moment, and that as
Mrs. Hayes is the only living wit
ness, her testimony, must be ac-
cepted for it's face value, unless
something more tangible than has
come to light is developed as hav-
pg transpired between the two
l'or to the meeting on the fatal
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