Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-21
Straps aud faets.


Tallahassee, Fla, last Friday. Re
Gently Miss Boyd, it is understood, and
other young women of the college,
had engaged workmen to eXcavate the
mound, and while the men were still
engaged Miss Boyd, accompanied by
two other curio hunters, went there
today. While standing in one OF the
clearings lateral earth suddenly gave
way and buried her. Physicians who
arrived after the body had been re-
covered said her death had been
efused by suffocation. Miss Boyd was
"a native OF iowa, and had been n mem
Der of the college faculty for four
years. .,... .-.... ,.f ..'. =
= Announcement that the United
Confederate Veterans will still be al
lowed the old rate OF q cent a mile to
and from the annual reunion in Rich
mond, Va, was made by railroad Of
fcials ut Memphis, Saturday. The
Southeastern Passenger association at
a meeting in st. Augustine last month
announced, that the reunion. rate this
year would be enc fare for the round
trip. This announcement raised
storm of protest from the veterans
with the result that the railroads have
granted the old rate. The cent a mile
rate will apply only to veterans and
dependent members of their families
travelling With them and members of
other Confederate organizations. 9th
ers attending the reunion will pay half
fare. . -
- Mrs. Alice E. Shields, was re-
manded for trial on charge Of murder
in the first degree following prelimi-
nary herring at Deland, Fla, last
Friday before a justice of peace,
-. a,,+ Gillirr~ nf lc1s h1lS-
b:nd early last month. A negro, Pete
Smith, arrested shortly after Shields
hid supposedly met his death from
ambush While returning with Mrs.
Shields from Deland to st. Cloud, Ilear
here, at%night, is charged with the
actual killing. Circumstantial evil
dence at todGy's hearing was to the
effect that Mrs. Shields conspired with
the negro to effect her husbands
death. Il was brought out that she
was driving the car at the time and
that she suddenly brought it to stop
in the road tc avoid striking an OBJ
stacle Shields alighted from the ma
chine to remove the obstructure and
was shot through the head with
shotgun. His head was virtually blown
TO pieces. Mrs. Shields was arrested
several days ago when Assistant State
Attorney Mott acted upon n communi-
cation from the committee of ipves-
tiCction, Ku KluX Klan," Offering a
solution of the affair. The Shields
formerly lived at Wichita, Kan.
- Major Lee H. tCoart, planter and
former army officer, was convicted at
Talbotton, Ga, last Friday, of the
murder Of A. McNiece. Shortly af
Ter Judge George p. Munroe had pass
ed sentence in accordance with the
jury's verdict Of guilty with recon-
mendation. for mercy counsel for Coart
appealed for a new trial and :: hearing
WIS set for June q before Judge Nun
roe in Columbus. The jury which took
the case early last night was out more
than fourteen hours before reaching
its verdict. Major Coart, the only
witness for the defense, told the jury
that McNeice, who was county super
intendent of schools, had alienated
Mrs Coaft's affections and had re-
fuced toAcease his attentions to her,
although aonce he had promised he
would. :. He, shot, and killed. McSeice
in the 1atter's office in an alteration
over the affair and when McNeice ap-
peared to threaten him with some
thing in his hand, he said. A pencil
was all that was found in McNeice's
hand. Sheriff Watkins testified, while
statement made by McNeice before
death. denied any wrong. doing and
said he was shot without proyocation.
Mrs. McNeice, who testified for the
prosecution, sprang the surprise of the
trial by declaring Coart had forced his |
attentions on her for several months |
before the killing, once seizing her in |
his arms and kissing her. The state |
claimed thet former officer killed Nc |
Neice out of desire to possess" Mrs |
McNeice.s Mrs. Coart, who, according |
to the. sheriff, has visited Coart but |
once since his arrest and that shortly |
after it took, place, is preparing to file |
suit for divorce, il was learned during |
the trial She also issued q statement |
denying his charges that she was inti-
mate withSMcNeice.
"A thrilling tale of fire at sea, with |
IDA panic stricken men and women |
locked in their state rooms, and |
stokers held at their post under threat |
Of drawn pistols. was related by pas
sengers OF the United States liner |
Potomac, when f. she arrived at New |
York from Bremen last Saturday. 1t |
was tale of Yankee pluck and inge- |
nuity-of q shippers refusal 70 give up |
his ship until every hope had been |
abandoned, and of his acceptance of |
the thousand to one chance" which |
turned a threatening catastrophe into !
q merely narrowing experience for |
those aboard. The fire was discovered !
at midnight March 2, a few hours af- |
ter the Potomac, with Capt. William |
Mcleod in charge, sailed from Bre- |
men up the coast of Holland into the |
North sea. She had been steaming
acng on a smooth sea when sudden !
ly, with howls of warning. the Spanish |
and Filipino stokers bourded from the !
hold and started for the lifeboats. Of |
ncerS, with revolvers, ordered them |
back to the fire room, which had be- |
come an inferno of smoke, with flames |
billowing from an adjoining compart-
nent where mattresses, life preservers
and ships stores had mysteriouslv |
taken fire. The dread cry of "fire" |
spread quickly through the ship. The
lO4 passengers broke from their state |
rooms anu made for the lifeboats. |
capt. Mcleod sent stewards to herd |
them back and prevent the frcnzied |
ores from leapinG overheard Chief |
Engineer f. NJ. Garland already had
priced guards over the boiler room !
crows, and streams of hose were |
spouting tons of water on the blaze. |
Huge clouds of smoke pouring from
the hatchways and the almost I'M
bearable heat around the Stokers, next !
TO the fire. gave evidence that it was |
gaining heatway. At a. IN. the fire |