The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 03, 1908, Page SIX, Image 6
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. ]
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