A family quarrel, said to have been caused by a drunken father, resulted in the death of Jim W. Hayes of Kannapolis Saturday afternoon. His daughter, Iva, aged 17, who fired the fatal shot, was released on bond in the sum of $1,000 after a jury summoned by Coroner Joe A Hartsell of Concord had heard three witnesses.
The killing was a culmination of a family quarrel, the girl said, during the course of which her father had become violent and had driven her mother from the home with threats of death.
The shooting occurred at the Hayes house on Poplar street, Kannapolis, and resulted from threats said to have been made by Hayes, who, the jury was told, had been drunk since Thursday. The trouble started shortly after the noon meal, when Hayes took his wife into a room in their home and bolted the door.
After they had been in the room a short while an insurance man called at the home and a member of the family called the mother to the door. As the woman left the room, Hayes is said to have ordered her to return. When this order was disobeyed. he became insistent, it is said, and after the insurance man left, he started from the room after his wife.
The jury was told that the woman ran from the house through the front door and down the front steps, running around the house toward the chicken lot in the rear. Hayes kept after her and did not halt until his daughter
called to him.
Turning on her, he was quoted as saying: “Well, I’ll just come back and kill you.” It was then she shot, the daughter said.
The young woman told the jury she went through the house as her parents went around it, and while passing through picked up the pistol from under the pillow on her brother’s bed, fearing her father might try to do bodily harm to her and her mother. In addition to Mrs. Hayes and her daughter, Miss Jessie Burkett of Kannapolis testified before the jury. Her testimony corroborated that of the other women, it is said.
The daughter fired only one shot at her father, the bullet striking him just above the forehead. He died almost instantly. Bond was quickly secured for the young woman, who works in the Cannon Manufacturing company’s mill.
Hayes was 54 years old and had been employed as locksmith in Kannapolis for the past 18 months. Police said that he went there after completing a two-year term in a South Carolina prison for a shooting episode in that state, when he is said to have fired a pistol into an automobile.
The girl said that her father had threatened the lives of the family about three weeks ago and that she had become frightened when he ran from the home in pursuit of Mrs. Hayes.
Mrs. Hayes was in a serious condition Saturday night as the result of friend(?) and shock, it was said.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, April 12, 1926
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