Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-12

James Taylor and Family VIII Leave
CIover-Faries's Wife Said to Be In
Critical Condition Since Tragedy
Misses Gertie and Dolly Taylor Will
Fully Recoverlfrom Their Wounds
Slayer Has Wide Connection.
By a Staff Correspondent)
Clover, September Ibid Eight
ing Bill" Faries's aversion to drinking
cistern water as furnished by the wa
ter system of the town of Glover cause
him to run amuck and kill four men,
bers Of the family Of James NJ. Taylor,
one of them a little girl in her teens?
There are those who claim to know
and who insist that the well in the
FAIRIES yard between his house and that
of Tom Perry, was the cause of all the
trouble. Fighting Bill has spent the
most of his turbulent life in the coun-
try, and it is said that he never could
get used to hydrant water when living
in 4 town. Houses Of textile workers
of the Glover Mill village are furnished
with water from the towns system OF
deep wells. Faries's home was so
equipped, but he himself hardly if ever
drank any Of that water. Just recent
ly he had cleaned out the old well in
the yard and had purchased new we'll
bucket and otherwise put the well i'm
good shape.
The Taylor children-some of them,
1t is saidj spit in the FAIRIES well and
threw trash in it on several occasions
and while they had engaged in num-
bers of spats with the FAIRIES children
about other matters, still it was the
well that raised Faries's ire.
Drank From It Anyway.
Then there are those who insist that
the we'll had nothing to do with it.
They argue that if a Taylor child had
spit in the well, FAIRIES would certainly
have not drawn a bucket of water
from that we'll after he had shot five
members of the Taylor family and just
before he gave Fred Taylor his death
wound. Fred Taylor, the fourth victim
of the killer, died in Gastonia hospit-
al Saturday morning at o'clock. He
had suffered great agony since he was
shot last Wednesday afternoon as he
came down the road leading to his
fathers home. When the shooting be-
gan he had run out Of the house toward
the mill in search of aid. Faries gave
him his mortal wound as he walked
down the street to home, unarmed and
filled with concern. for his loved ones
who had already suffered at the hands
of the infuriated man. Blood poison
that had settled in a wound in his hip
caused his death. An operation was
made early Saturday morning in des-
perate effort to save his life; but 1t
was of no avail, death coming pretty
soon thereafter. He was buried Sun
day morning in Olney cemetery beside
his sister Leila, his brother Newton and
his cousin, Claude Johnson. There
was a large crowd at the funeral and
his grave was banked high with pretty
flowers. Fresh bouquets were laid on
the graves of the other trio of the trag-
edy. 1t was really unnecessary, how
ever, because the fragrance was still on
the roses that had been placed on them
originally; and the time between the
burials had been so short that they
had not died.
Taylor Will Move.
It is reported that Jim Taylor will
move the surviving members of his
family back to South Gastonia, from
whence they came to Glover Mill to live
several months ago. They couldn't well
remain in Glover. The mothers heart
would well nigh break every, time she
looked out the front porch of her horne
if she did. The saddest memories would
ever persistently pcrsecute her and the
father if they stayed there. There
would ever be visions of the killer with
double barrel and his single-barrel
guns belching buckshot across the mar
row street. The family originally came
from Graham county, in the mountains
of western North Carolina. They came
out Of the mountains to the mills in
the hope of better opportunity to get
along in the world. There are feuds
in the mountains occasionally; but the
poor peasant family has learned that
they are occasionally in the Industrial
sections also. In the mountain fouds
women are some times killed. 1t also
happens elsewhere.
Methodists and Baptists.
Fred Taylor and Newton Taylor
went to the Methodist Sunday school
in Glover, while they lived. 1t is said
| that the other members of the family
went to the Baptist church. The fun
erals of all four of the victims were
conducted, it is said by Rev. J. G..
Huggin, pastor of Glover Methodist
church. The minister was one of the
first at the scene of the terrible
| tragedy after the word of it had been
spread about Glover on Wednesday.
Mrs. FAIRIES III.
1t is reported that Mrs. FAIRIES who
has been i'll for months has collapsed
since the tragedy Wednesday and that
relatives have been at her bedside