Hickory, April 18—Rev. M.T. Hinshaw, for 15 years president of Rutherford College, a denominational school, resigned today after a meeting of the board of trustees, which followed the exposure this week of Hinshaw’s intimacy with a young girl who worked in his office. The girl’s name was not given.
College students, headed by young Edward Conrad of Spencer, suspected unbefitting relations between Hinshaw and the girl some time ago. Conrad concealed himself in a room over the president’s office and took pictures of Hinshaw and the girl, which it is alleged shows them in a compromising position. After this, the story goes, Hinshaw received a letter signed “K.K.K.,” which directed him to place $500 in money in a certain spot and not talk. This Hinshaw refused to do and the exposure followed.
Hinshaw issued a statement saying he was the “victim of circumstance and unguarded relations” and would say nothing further.
Rev. Hinshaw is a native of Yadkinville, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mart Hinshaw, a highly respected family, and has many friends here who hesitate to believe him guilty of improper conduct. Whether he is guilty or not, he is the victim of a plot nothing short of blackmail, if the dispatches are true.
From the front page of The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, N.C., Thursday, April 23, 1925.
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