Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-10
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911.

bill were not so much as to its proyis-
ions as to the fact that 1t would create
general confusion by upsetting exist
ing special provisions.
- Columbia Record: BY vote Of sc
to AZ the house Of representatives re-
fused Thursday, after a debate, to
strike out the resolving words Of
concurrent resolution, directing the at
torney general to report to the general
assembly at its next session his opin-
ion as to whether the Clemson estates
control Of Clemson college can be le-
gally removed and IL so by what means.
In view of the passage Of this resolu-
ton by the house-the senate having
passed 1t previously on motion OF the
author, Senator Earle-Representative
L. ]. Browning Of Union agreed not to
call up during the current session his
bill to divert the whole of the proceeds
from the fertilizer tag tax from Glenn
son college and place these funds in
the state treasury. This compromise,
agreed on between those who wish
Clemson left undisturbed and those
who wish the college to be differently
financed, averted long, hard fight and
left more time at this session for the
disposal Of other matters.
whiteville, N. c., special of Feb
ruary s. to Charlotte Observer: vague
and indefinite rumors continue to be
circulated here as to what the state
will attempt to show as motive for
the shooting to death, Saturday even
ing at Mount Tabor, Of Robert M.
Floyd, a medical student Of South Car
olina, by Mrs. N. NJ. Hayes, who claims
that she acted in defense Of her hon.
or. Mrs. Hayes Is in Jail awaiting pre-
liminary hearing on charge Of murder
and her husband and his brother,
Lloyd Hayes, IA years old, are also
in Jail charged with being accessories
before the fact. The preliminary hear
ing was first announced to be held here
today, but has been postponed to some
future date yet to be selected. the de-
lay perhaps being occasioned on ac-
count of the fact that counsel on both
sides desire further time In which 10
prepare for the legal battle likey 10
take place at the trial before Justice
w. C. Graham Of Mount Tabor, by
whom the warrants were issued. d. j.
Lewis was retained yesterday as conn-
sci for the prosecution and he spent
today at Mount Tabor investigating the
shooting and in search Of any possible
motive for a conspiracy. M. T. Floyd.
father Of the young man killed. and
Julius T. Floyd, brother, OF CALI
wants Ferry, s. c., spent yesterday
here. The elder Mr.. Floyd expresses
the firm conviction that his son was
the victim Of a conspiracy to murder
him by the Hayeses and asserts that
he wants to see justice done. He stat
ed that three letters were found In the
pockets of his son from the Hayeses,
one from Mrs. Hayes asking that ne
come here and treat her for mole and
also one from her husband requesting
the same thing, while the contents OF
the third letter was not given out, nut
II Is said to have some bearing on the
case. It is understood that probably
the prosecution will contend that FLOYD
and Mrs. Hayes, prior to the latters
marriage, were sweethearts and that
Mrs. Hayes husband was jealous even
of the mast AFFAIR of the heart Of the
two. intensified because she frequent
" threw up" to him her former lover.
that he had borne this as long as ne
could and then demanded that some
scheme be arranged by which Floyd
could be enticed to the home for the
purpose Of killing him: that the let
ters relative to the mole were written
with this in view; that the Floyd man
went in response to the letters and
that he was killed by shots from either
one of the three now under arrest,
probably one Of the men: 1t Is hard.
" thought that case will be made out
against the defendants, as there has
been found no one but Mrs. Hayes her
self who pretends to have been pres
ent at the time of the shooting. The
defense will set up that what happen
ed 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 witness. her testimony must
be accepted for its face value, unless
something more tangible than has come
to light is developed as having trans
pired between the two prior to the
meeting on the fatal evening.