Aiken Standard and South Carolina Gazette (Newspaper) - October 31, 1930, Aiken, South Carolina FLOYD ADMITS aa in the TR6 year aa ft there number at important l to be in the general citizen fta U M a MW primary win S of recent death of the chief ft C Mr Coegrove will ac appoint ment until the vacancy ia filled at term of the general Mr U a graduate of the College of Charleston and in 1913 When the gota to pay hia find that ii called For 1 the murder of mill UH tto received his law degree George her wtM Md tag the aa the Mat o with MIHM A Minnie wne ot UM who waa to lin n will not face n jury tern n motion by her Solicitor at for a continuance of her caae having been granted by Judge The case will comt up of Monday in Floyd created a sensation in the when he took the stand Tuesday 4f iOi cooly admitted that he tilted Bell previously Raying that he hit him candi ar for B Glover T E Hair A W Fliat H Headrix R Hafera Roland N Murray David K and Dr Wyman r j N Schroder in for v There is a total of en 591 oT theie being in Ward 1 uptown and 494 in Ward 2 downtown books for Monday while the FOR MURDER Iteri OB Trial Since for Death of of EUer towli laW time he the practice of law Mr Coegrove has four or five tinea under appointment from Governor R I Manning and Governor his yesterday and will take Justice Thomaa P Goth ran will continue to preside as senior Malt Earl father and son of Bath went on trial here Wednesday U elected other associate justices are Eugene S F Carter the of Ernest 19 of I choked him until I knew ne was claimed selfdefense on that struck him pi with Bell in a small room in the Bell garage Floyd said that he had known the Bells for seven yean and that he had had intimate with Bell for unknown to Bell who a friend of tola He that he had been before to pay Bell m Mrs Bell a but ll al that lw did not The night of September 29 he MM Darnell drove to and after riding around the he left nell at a filling station to wait for n From Alien Today cooperative shipment of peanuts will be made by farmers in lower part of Aiken County from Hankin soha Station better known aa murder old stepson of the elder OShields Hillman received a serious knife wound in his back the afternoon dying in Hospital three The knife to have heen by The appointment of Mr Cosgrove was made without recommendation of be court as at present constituted eun Jtl a Cones Paint Week Hon Ibra C Blackwood of Cairo Una drove down Friday from Colum Friday younger OShields who it is also ali Tho Western Conference of and Che guest in Ai ken until Saturday of Walter E Dun can Mr Blackwood was accompanied by his Frank C Hodg es of Spartanburg Dun cent on hia farm Behind everything ta a fact did wt la explained In of a was in the Columbia of Coq Fund of the Tax and of tlw State Finance Committee This meeting waa held at tho tion Hon McCaslan of wood who for the pant four yean nerved m chairman of the waya and means committee of the of rep a member of In capacity and ait the Contingent Fund Prosecution testimony several of tho Hillmar children were living with Mrs their mo ther and their stepfather boarding with them A difficulty resulted in the killing the payment of board by Ernest Mrs court of Womens Clubs held in Aikon Saturday at St Thaddeus Episcopal Church parish house Miss Zena Payne of Johnston director pre siding Club women from g Edge T u e COUST wood W C The I nil of her children been paying field Johnson and Aiken were pro time states budget for Mr Duncan Wing secretary of tho budget com mission composed of the governor Farm Agent who will be assisted by George E Prince of Aiken chief of the marketing ex loard and that one when j sent his money was due told them that he would have jisk them to carry him over until ho next week He and said were arguing over thit in n front AI in n wnl Mr that he has w heard her son her husband E T H Shaffer of Walt dindor of thv Southern dis a at tho conference Among and heads of the chairman of the ways nnd means of the and tin of While Mr will Committee and Budget Mr had become very much interested in tax equalization For tax equalization he had worked ly in the house of representatives and on the outside It was proposed at that thc forms on which rs rc for IJT Mr McCaslan who had that in these forms something approximate ing tax equalisation could at least secured or at least nn appreciable step made in that direction were Hell home knocked at the back door being by Mrs told him that her husband away They went to the room in the where later Bell surprised them In the I later act of adultery Floyd stated Bell had an iron pipe and at Win Floyd Governor Richards responded cn to tho when it apparent that tho proponed would at least relieve farm v i i oni property of a portion of the have no official part in the prepara lax burden shifting to other ami lion of the budget sineo hi come governor in January ami the to be will involve his administration Governor has shown him the courtesy of claws of more able to pay The was made and became effective with the making of for this and Jrom many conw to Colum bia of being afford ed Since that time Mr has tons U R cnr the should net a over the dor members of the family rushed in just Mua told the court but the blow glanced off his arm and pon MTU Bell had run from the garage but he being unable to find a Roasie Carter and Wade Smith colored testified to seeing the Bell snid uning it to beat him over the head He then choked him he the body into the car Floyd using the tire tool the State hnd sought to prove that he foot car in the ditch off the highway and seeing a mans body slumped beneath in time she from n knife When said Ernest ran down the nw then started prevent with sh and Will Lou Gray f Columbia chairman of Mrs A C of ff art Mrs 11 of chairman of pub Mr ing him to sit in oti Uio budget ings and Mr Blarkwood who w In IaTs out the state explaining situation I he has independently 1 and nt his own as ho did nul offer for in County thiR Huist Comedy Aunt laci in c Harold out of Langley at the of with war l Meets With of the riotous i wly a talent ly took charge Mr said that he sent for Coroner Tom Tarver and tht V went back to Clearwater to notify Ernest but that he ci Mrs Bell who he said was greatly j Manin declared tha up and who cried Beard j lm a in the three iron did use was buried After the killing Floyd said that Mrs Bell him to moTe on to tell of Floyd in body off and after a while he about five or six weeks ult hau put the body on the scat of forc thc killing stating that Floyd j ard O Shields Ford and drove it to U find the to point on the highway i the BeUs He also a mile south of where heani Darnell say in found Floyd stated that Oio he wint on tho Darnell and drove lhn casu accom to Greenville Floyd to on the Only two other witnesses were pro of thc killing this also being twoi testified to by Sheriff J P Howard i planning to go he Floyd the t coming to Aiken County to look at to show some farms OShields had Some evidence was presented nt this wilh point as to of shoes later found to have spots on that Darnell carried to an aunt of his to keep for him warning her not to tell anyone of these Mrs Bessie I strike him he to by Riti A iu fi the defense Snydor both of testi Red as to an alleged bod reputation j that Mrs Floyd hod there and the latter declared that he would not be lieve her on oath The case opened Monday the court for its second week Mrs Bell going on the stand an the witness the second ftir the state She stated that she and her husband Smith of aunt testi and their eight year child moved aa to this Another witness to this a year ago She said that she had L Greenville County when been knowing Floyd for about seven told tho court years and had beon with him j Mrs Hell had a bad reputation in despite thc fact that she knew he was and that of this married and had two children one of Bells M leave them a cripple She admitted that mill i intimate with A fireman at th but said that she only went with himmins that he had worked because he threatened to kill her Bel until tvn after 0 she did not i oclock the night of the killing and Mrs Bell stated that on the that had driven him horn bo of the killing Floyd came to her forc Poing to his own home Coroner while her huMand was and Tom also testified as did 1 stated that he was going to kill W detective of threatening her life she said if she constabulary gave warning or tried to protect Photographs of the Bell and It brought int Richard had bt n for several on his board hat nothing had been said to von h upper par An cut its both the injuries in the tin father suffering n wound in the hip and a on the while the son sustained a cut thumb tn treating the i Jin up ihr ni Mr 1 M it of l a vn well by Heading the Murden who t a ia ail old woman and is mistaken for Aunt inl Nor man Cullum played Dick nnd two if college who n i f Irry f is i fifty million attend the thought t and in of Hoyn jind play the of college lnt a niv Croft fa Mrs It was stated at tho tho cutting there two sticks ot that were u J Thc case in the jury lat yo afternoon J B Salley fV ani U I Center Joi E and S B most of yesterday some after afternoon and renm B of rg ini Mrs F Aiken They nc HI tho piano y Mn Henry of uni Ei of Aiken wu tordo n Doan li Mis Mary Hi mon A V i1 i DONATION DAY Hospital Needs was i Dondy took of Frof larf Tracy Hite and Pr William wore two comical A Durban and Miss President ind Sea HT wi re bringing I Tom Thumn il H Ilr 1 K y frir H R E hie M F IJ John ami of ii fn the in varing forms f while other That giwn of ap state Mr Mc luis their behalf in the call on cunty Farm Women To in Lexington fall of Central District Carolina Council of Farm Wo men will he held on November 8th at Lex al a in An interesting lins Intn Arranged and a expected i speaker will be Tlon F who lias recently rail at th of the by the Farm of f iil Mrs 1 Whitman Smith will aio Mnn program Bounty lu a will awarded bv Miss Hessie Harper ir has dmi th past T Council will ni iv Sal will that the of th ie in tinio for da Many of thr to thr hnot SIX HOY CAR stories Thc cider th court that wife came U him and hijii to son Hili Floyd then went to the the spot the car was found man that he have to twy which due if he over the car to tht were it WM two then he OShields j B D Carter while R G Stone of BeiM at Floyd and mid that coun cut him for conj when he got V the front we I an page Two dozen Sheets in Two dozen Spreads in One dozen Pillow Cases inches Two Bath Towels Half Table One dozen Bath Robes Wash not Shields said j who rendered f the tht milkmaid flashlight anl TT of a n f voices down Bedroom Mrs Croft wilh the opening chorus of children was enjoyed Tho show was Mr tin Mrs r of y cariy last ut a car driven by Mr C O of Aikn The little to Aiken Hospital dici arriving almost wrecked hir car in an hitting who suddenly in thr of hor from a dashing into 1 ditch Her sis r Frances who hor a slight The Win Six for women and m tor r of the house ainu nc that had for Wash Cloths Side Lamps Room Mirrors Glass Pit Kitchen Utensils Grocer Green Vegetables Chairs Cash of carom inquest tl tT HTld was of any Cotton Ginning Report Total bales of cotton ginned in Ai kon County prior to October 1 S h of Washington D amount to s the cottage of David Hows just released by U S Dr on Hayw Avenne for the coming sea of through tbr Salley and X real es Burrau of Prior to thr utc agents having made the teal date in 1929 only Mr DOWK plam to in Sowth of cotton had bwi Tinned in ca thu winter has
