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FULL CONFESSION MADE BY THE TOLAND BOYS lADMIT THAT THEY MURDERED MRS. ELLISOR. There Was No Third ''Party?Brack Toland Broke Down and Told Whole Story When Separated From His < Brother. Tito Slate. Ned ami Brack Toland, the two ne- i groes who were arrested for the mur- i vler of the aged Mrs. Paul D. Ellisor, s yesterday made a full and complete I confession at the State penitentiary dn the presence of' Capt. Orinith, Capt. Koberts, Corporal Ilnrling and others. The story they told to tiro of- * (ficers the day following their arrest Avas, according to their admission 1 yesterday, concocted in the Newberry jail Wednesday night. ! They now admit killing Airs. Kllisor and throwing her body into the , basket and (hen robbing the house of ( such articles of value as Ihey could ilnd. No induceinetils of any kind "were ottered the negroes to make a ( clean breast of their connection with | the dastardly crime; it was voluntary, free and apparently without | the least reservation as to any of the , facts. * 'l \cstcrday afternoon a gentleman 1 living near Columbia called at the : penitentiary and asked to he. allowed \ to look nl the smaller of the two ncg- t roes, thinking that this one had been employed lor him on one occasion. 1 Capt. f.'riffiih sent for Brack Toland, j ibul he proved :io| |o be I he boy who ( had worked for this gentleman. But < it seems that Brack was brought liefore the ollicers at trie psychol< moment. Capt. (irillilh, Coni0l:,j j. -j P. Harling and Corporal, 's Dill were present, hc,?j(i,,s the -en- I tleman who had cr".0(i for th-a pur. , pose of ide.nlifyie.g t|,,, nftffro< Brnok said that lie iv;.^jPl| lo |0|| ,||0 ,ni(h about the v/ricde matter. lie >a^,j (.11a| ||js brother, N'e.i, ' In?'^e Afim leave home Monday and I cVime with him I o Cay res. They slay- < // ed iit Cayces Monday and Tuesday < nights, spending most of their time 1 in the depot, at that place. Brack < said that his brother had been there I before, but. that he had never seen 1 the nl-jce before in his life. Wednesday morning he says that. 1 at the suggestion of his brother, he and Ned went up to "that house" (meaning Mh\ Kllisor's) and that they went in and asked for live cents worth <d bread. The woman paid very ' little attenion to them and didn't ap- ' peav to welcome their coming lie says that they then went into the house and said something about their "being up to something." lie says that they told her that they were not; that they .just wanted to warm. As soon as they got into the house he canufht Mrs. Kllisor ami his brother knocked her in the head with an axe. They then put her body in the basket and his brother struck the woman two more blows with the axe afterward. Brack said that tbey went through the house, but found no money. They searched the trunk, but no money was in sight. They then proceeded to lake what they could get their hands on. Brack said (fiat tic ran to the ,U r <>ne t ime and look ed out In see il anyone was coniimr, hut saw / no one. I'he\ took :i coat, :i ra/.or. a watch chain, a woman's jacket, three silk handkerchiefs, a gun and some --iit !!-.. I'hey left the house and went tow ards the woods, and w hen they discovered licit Ihey had a woman'-; jacket l hoy hid it behind a log and weul on towards Brooklaud. They sold the gun in Brookland to the man who went to Newberry to see them, Mr. Fox. Then they crossed the bridge and look the N. & IB. train which leaves Columbia at .11 :'J0 and went as far as Irino, ten miles north of the city. They got off the train at I riuo and walked up the railroad track l<? Milton, nine miles tardier, flagging the mixed train which leaves Columbia ill just before it reached Hilton, They were placed under an >d before reaching Newberry. Wh' i they got to Newberry ;.ii! lie ;vid Vs brother talked the ',1 a' r ovc !. !:i and made up the story which they told the olllcers the next day. A few tearsgathered in Brack's vyes while, he was telling his story yesterday and pity was exe'ted in all those who heard the boy's story, because it was felt that he had been led intoHhis crime by his hrothor. After Brack finV.ied his stor" h.? was carried hack to *?i-? ce'l. CajM. Roberts and Corroral I'nrlin"; then went to t!"? (11! if Nod Tel and nn:)i I informed !iim that his brother had i made a I'n!! confission. Ned r'dusx1 J to 1 "I'eve that !>:v; h'o'hrr had tol.i j anything and asked that Brack he brought to his cell so that he could ask him. Brack was brought up and when Ned asked him what he had told tho officers the latter replied, "I told thorn everything." Thereupon Ned broke down and himself made a clean breast of the whole affair. HV story coincided to detail with that) told by Brack. He shed no tears add there was nothing in his voice to indicate that he was concerned to any considerable extent as to his probable fate, nor did he seem to realize the enormity of his crime. Later both of the men were brought i:ito the office of Capt. Griffith and in the presence of the coroner and i several other gentlemen and the officers made the same confession. Ned Toland an Old Criminal. Ned Toland, the older of the two icgroes, has every appearance of beng a hardened criminal, and one look it him is sufficient to warrant one in {(including that he is not past coinnil ting any crime in the decalogue, lis criminal record is as follows: Arrested in March, 1000. on charge >f burglary and larceny in Newberry iounty. Sen! 111> for a term of one year on July 21. 1000, at the Newberry term >f criminal court on charge of lousebreaking and larceny. Tried at the April, 1901. term of lie United States court at fJreen'ille on charge of robbing post office it Sliglis, Newberry county, in March of that year. Convicted and sentenced to serve a term of three /ears in the federal prison at Allana. Arrested September 17, 1007, N'ewlerry county, on charge of assault, nid battery. Sentenced fo serv^ 30 lays on the eluiin'.'-it"- <> 'pay a fine >1 $00. Ue ^o'd (he lime. L"/('ked up Fobrunry 20, 1 <)0S, at Sewberry on charge of murder of Mrs. Paul D. Kllisor. S?? far as 11?,? recoids show Iris is he flirsl crime which I'.rack Toland wis been implicated in. Held Out to Last. A few hours prior to lire confession if Xcd and Brack Toland the two I liovs were visited by a reporter for I lie Stale and were (|uestioned a see-' >n,l lime concerning their part in Die rime of Wednesday morning. Bolh lield out (hat 1 hey did not go together lo the house of Mrs. FJIisor, but lliat (he younger and "another man" j iad gone (here?practically th<e samel story thai (he two boys fold on the lay after Iheir conrinement in the jail al Newberry. Bui in Iheir remarks yesterday morning Ilrere were several discrepancies bet ween Die statements of tliD older boy and those of Die younger. The two boys were questio.red separately ami on the main thread of (lie story (hey concocted in the jail at Newtberry they agreed, but on other parts of Die story they disagreed considerably. Brack was sure that the I wo, after coming to Columbia, ha.I roamed about the streets of Columbia and had then started out for Cayee? to meet a man, they said. Ned stated, however, Dial the two had gone into a restaurant hero and bought some supper, which Brack said they had not done. ll was stated that 0.~> cents was found >n the boys when arrested. Ned claimed he had before he. left home (Monday morning. .After Iheir purchases of food?as (hey gave it?and Die money paid out on Die train Die total amount sp,-ill would amount to about $2.">0. and adding Die money found o:i them would bring the amount to This would seem to bear out the younger boy's statement that 1 licy two had received hut .">0 cents of Die money from the gun but they, as it afterwards appeared, neglected to mention sonic of the oilier money I hey had spent. When Ned was telling his story ho made one slip by saying: "When we left the station at Cavee," immediately correcting himself to say, "When I left the station at Cayce," tliis being a pari of the slorv Die two had arranged, making il appear that Die younger hoy had left after the older one. The way Nod hastened to correct his tirst statement practically gave away the fact that Ihe two had arranged Die story Dial they had been tidling since the tragedy occurred. Kacli of the boys described every movement that had been made since leaving their home Monday morning, even telling Die articles that (hey had bought to eat. the two uo( agreeing, however, in many of the details. The statements made yesterday morning prior to (he confession were practically what the boys had said on previous occasions. As Brack told his storv he gazed ^vfi v >iow and I fieri, as if deep t'i metfita!ie:i, and *eemcd lo ponder bver hi* w\rd s veil before he uttered vm. His eves g!it as he spoke m l ' ri vrs tw;t<!ietl nervously !,?> ' l-f s'?. ".Id (el! svm'Mh.nr t!':ii his brother mi^ht contradict, lie could not remember what limo the two left Columbia on their way to Cayce, but said that very probably his brother did remenuber, thus pre|?ai*in??- a way, as he thought, for any discrepancy in the statement in regard to the time between the two. Ilis -brother 'Ned did remember the time, and said he called Brack's attention to it when he heard the bell strike. Brack certainly worked hard for his brother and could not be trapped into saying anything that would bring tlu other boy into the affair at all. Ned glanced nervously down as he spoke and hugged close to the big stove in the middle of the new prison at the penitentiary. He did not look straight into the listeners' eyes as lie spoke, but watched the stove and spoke very slowly. It is remai'kable the way the two boys held out to the last in their first statements as to the part that tin smaller and took as a wattfhina.i by : the road and (lie absence of the larger one. The prisoners were, according i to their own statement, together in a 1 eel] in Newberrv, and i:i the time ? I'll a I elapsed between their being i placed in the jail by Sheriff Buford and 7 o'clock the next morning they fronted the plan by which they Imped to clear the larger boy and make the crime of the smaller lesser in ,legive. j Then came the confession a few . hours afterwards and the tale, that the hoys had persisted in was thrown , to the winds, and the, tiwo ho,v$?one 1 10 years old and one '17-t-staiijtt self- , confessed murderers. ] Charles R. Jones, the prohibition ; expert, declares that Chicago is the ^ worst, city in the United States. This ' is enough to make Pittsburg jealous. J fit Wholesale Prices Bananas, Oranges, ] a Apples, and all sorts of Fruits. ALSO I Homemade Candy. 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