The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-02-14
HAYES HEARING SET FOR TO-DAY.
News and Courier Correspondent Wis
its Scene Of Killing of Young
Robert VI. Floyd.

conway, FSU. JAS d result Ol
trip today by the News and Courier
correspondent to Tabor, n. c., the
seene of the killing Of Robert NJ. Floyd
by Mrs. Rosa Hayes, it was ascertain
ed definitely that the preliminary
hearing in this case will be on Tues
day, the 14th inst, at WIhiteville. This
date has been agreed upon by all par
ties interested. Magistrate ". G.. Gra-
ham, Of Tabor, has been designated to
sit ON the case, and this morning he
was busy binding over witnesses. Up
uni1 noon today twenty-five witnesses
bad been bound over by the State and
judging by the activity Of relatives Of
the deceased still more witnesses may
be summoned. Al of these witnesses
live in and around Tabor, and they
have been summoned, it is learned, to
prove a motive for the killing, other
than the statements made by Mrs.
Hayes, and to implicate others in the
horrible affair.
T. Sentiment at Tabor.
One with no knowledge of the kill
ing would be Impressed on arriving
at Tabor with the idea that some great
calamity had befallen this quiet, but
BUSY little town. Notwithstanding the
fact that it has been five days since
the occurrence and the subsequent re-
moval Of the parties of WhiteVille, Ia
Dor is yet all astir over the affair.
Groups are gathered here and there
discussing it, each comparing rumors
and theories with the other in an ef-
fort to solve the mystery surrounding
the tragic death Of young Floyd.
The Hayes House.
The Hayes home is situated only a
few feet back from the sidewalk, of a
broad, open side street, and only
about 200 yards from the business
street of the town. Within forty feet
of the house, on either side, are other
dwellings, one being hotel, which On
the night of the killing was we'll filled
with guests. Hayes's barber shop is
only about 100 yards from his home,
one standing at the front of the shop
having an unobstructed view of it. The
house is four-room dwelling, a hall
running between the two rooms on
either side. The hall opens by a door
on the front porch, which door Mrs.
Hayes in her testimony states was
locked. The door to her bed room,
which she states that Floyd entered,
is several feet down the hall to the
right. Floyd's hat was hung on a
rack on the left wall of the hall be-
yond the bed room door. The bed, to
which Mrs. Hayes states Floyd forced
her, sits in the extreme right corner
of the room, but to the left of the bed
room door. Mrs. Hayes, in retreating
backwards followed by Floyd, as she
states in her testimony, carried her
the width of a room through 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 out on the
top step. Those who saw Mr.. Floyd
before he was moved, state that his
form covered the entire width of the
porch, so that any one returning to
the hall would be forced to 80 over
Mr.. Floyd's PROSTATE form. Mrs.
Hayes's statement is that she fell out
the door ahead of Mr.. Floyd, and that
she afterwards returned to the house
and securing another pistol shot him
again in the head.
Bullets in Bed Room.
Yesterday afternoon was made a
thorough search of the bed room Of
the Hayes home, in which the shoot