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\ THEY WILL HAN& Two Brutal Murdorars Promptly Convletod Ovor In loxlngton. TELL OF THEIR ICRME Whlce Wm Brutal In the Extreme? The Slayers of Aged Mm. Klllsor # Given Quick Trial and Will Be 8]>cedlly Executed?A Very Barge Crown Witnessed the Trial, but Everything Passed Off Quietly. Ned and Brack Toland. the two negro boya who killed Mrs. Frances Hllisor at Cayce, across the river from Columbia, on Wednesday, February 26, were convicted at Lexington, on Tuesday of murder in the first degree and Judge James W. DeVpre sentenced them to hand on Friday, May 1. The trial consumed only about eight l\purs.. Capt. Jos. R. Allen and the Richland Volunteers escorted the prisoners to Lexington Tuesday morning from the Sodth Carolina penitentiary andthroughout the trial remained on duty, with fixed bayonets, around the prison dock. The court room was crowded to its capacity and there were not less than 800 people in town to witness the trial. There was not the slightest sign of drunkenness and perfect order prevailed throughout the day. Judge DeVore of Edgefield, the newly elected Judge of the Eleventh circuit was commissioned by Governor Ansel to hold the special term of court ordered to try the Toland brothers. He proved an excellent presiding judge, nnd there was not a hitch in the proceedings of the court from the o)>ening to the hour when the crier announced it adjourned sine die. The trip was made to Lexington without mishap. A crowd of perhaps 100 men were at tho station at Lexington when the train arrived, but the engineer, exercising due caution, ran past the staton al>out 300 yards. | wnere tne soldiers detrained and, with the prisoners In the centre of company platoons, the march to Lexington court house, one mile and a half distant, was begun. The prisoners were extremely nervous ar.d Beemod to be momentarily in fear of receiving l>odlly harm and three times between the station and the court house it was necessary for the militia to halt for five minute periods to allow the negroes to rest, Ned Toland giving out completely. As they neared the court building several men on the corner of the street opposite the entrance of the court house yelled three or four times, and some person loudly called, "Where are you niggers?"?but nothing was started. The crowd in front of the bulditig cleared the way for the miliatla and prisoners and soon they were safely in the court room and the negroes seated in the dock Here n line of militia was placed on each side of tba aisle, on the outer side of the bar railing, a line on each side cf the aisle inside the railing and four at either corner of the prison dock. Two yound lawyers were appointed by the Judge to defend the murderers and the defendants were then formally placed on trial and a plea of not guilty wo6 entered as to each. Under the law a defendant can not plead gnllty in a case the possible outcome of which is capital punishment. Found the Body. Mr. Paul Ellisor, husband of the deceased, was the first witness. He testified that when he left his home at Cayce on the morning of Feb. 26, to go to New- Rrookland, he left his wife there, in good henlth. He left his home about 7 o'clock and returned about 11. The house was locked. When he entered he found his wife's dead obdy in a clothes bas ket In the renr room, with clothes and quilts thrown over her. Her clothes were bloody and there wore wounds on her hoad and face. He stated that he missed a eon, loaded shells, a razor, a coat, his wife's cloak and other articles from the ix>om. He Identified the coat, which at that very moment Ilraek Toland was wearing, as the coat that was taken from hs house the morning of the murder. IHb gun had been returned to him by Mr. M. P. Fox. The gun was Identified by witness and placed in evdence. It is a single barreled breech loader. The axe with which the crimo was committed was identified and put in evidence. He said that the axe was standing at the foot of the bed and there was blood on the table. It had been used to break open the trunk. He identified the razor, three hankerchiefs and three watch chains which were found on Brack Toland by Sheriff Buford. Two chains, hankerchiefs. stc... found on Ned Toland by Sheriff Buford were Identified by Mr Kllir-or Witness testified that he was the first to reach his wife und when ho discovered her body In the basket life was extinct. There was a bad gash in the lop of the head and another ugly wouna on the side of her face. There was blood on her dress, e?peclally around the throat. There was no sign of a struggle. As soon as he could recover from the shock ho Informed his neighbors of the crime. Sheriff lluford Made Arrest. M. M. Buford, sheriff of Newberry county, testified that he made the arrest of Ned and Brack Toland on the 1 night of Feb. 26 between Hilton and ' Little Mountain, on the Columbia. Newberry and Laurens railroad. The arrest was made on the train. He was in Columbia on the day hat 1 Mrs. Elllsor was murdered." Intended ' taking 7.25 train for Newberry, but 1 was called off by Mr. L. B. Aber- ' nathy. who told him that Mr Adam D. Shull wanted to talk with him about this murder. ' There were a series of objections { to this 11ns of testimony as being hereBay and witness was Instructed that he couldn't tell what others had said to him. He told of receiving Information from Conductor John C. McCain of the presence In the forward part of the train that two negroes whom the conductor had suspected as having been connected with the murder. He arrested them and took them to the Newberry Jail. They denied any knowledge of the crime. Later he telephoned for Mr. M. F. Fox to come to Newberry and identify the prisoners. Mr. Fox and Mr. Abernathy came up early Tbursday morning and after the former identified tnem they were taken to Columbia and Disced In the penitentiary for safe keeping. Sheriff Buford started to tell of a statement made by Brack Toland while in the Newberry jail, but this was objected to by counsel for the defendants on the gruond that proper grounds for introducing a confession had not been laid and on further grQund that the statement was made after the negroes had been told that they were in danger. The solicitor did not insist on the statement and thiB feature was dropped. Sheriff Buford identified the articles found on the defendants. Confessed to Capt. Griffith. Capt. D. J. Griffith, superintendent of the State peniten'iary, testified that the defendants were placed in the penitentiary on February 27. He hud a conversation with both of them in his office a few days later. They made voluntary statements about the Ellisor murder. Brack was the first to make a statement about the affair. He said he had never been away from home before; was induced by his brother to accompany him on this trip, telling him that he (Ned) knew where they could get some money. He 6aid they staid around Cayce's depot for a day or two and the morning of the date on which they were arrested he and Ned went to the house where Mrs. Ellisor lived. They went into the house and asked for some bread. She gave them some biscuits and they offered to pay for it but she refused to take any pay. They then started into the house to warm. Mrs. Ellisor, he said, at first made no objection to their warming, but that she told them that she believed they were "up to some meanness." Brack said that they grabbed her and while his brother got the axe he held her tight. Ned hit her in the head two or three times and they put her body in a basket, got some things out of the house and they ran, going through the woods a piece. They sold the cun to a man at I New Brook land and then went to Columbia, taking the train from there and going to lrmo; that they walked np the railroad from lrmo to Hilton, boarding the C., N. and L. train there and being arrested a few minutes later by Sheriff Buford. Capt. Griffith said ha warned Brack before he made any statement that it would be used against him. After Brack was sent back to his cell, Ned was brought to the office aud mude substantially the same statement as that made by Brack, he too. being warned that he could not be made to make any confession and that whatever he said would be used against him. Capt. C. C. Roberts of the penitentiary guard corrobated Capt. Griffith's testimony. The statements made by Ned and Brack Toland were made in his hearing us well us in the hearing of Cori>oral J. P. Hurling. Ned Toland on Stand. Ned Toland was sworn for the defense. lie said he was from Prosperity. Left home on Monday (Feb. 24); told his brother that he was going to Columbia. His brother and he "beat" the local freight to Columbia. When they reached Columbia they went to a restaurant. He bought some cocaine from a negro named Luther. After getting dinner he and his brother went to Cayce. He carried coal for the operator at Cayce and the latter nllnwprf th? two ti> clnon In the waiting room. They swept out the waiting room the next morning and then they left and went up the dirt road and stopped at a lady's house and got something to eat; saw Mr. Elllsor working in the field near his home. After getting something to eat at the lady's house they went into the woods and built up a fire, staying there until late in the afternoon, when they returned to Oapce and aguln used the waiting room to sleep in. Leaving the station Wednesday morning, he took some more cocaine. He had but one nickel left. He and his brother stnrted out, his brother jsaying that he was hungry. They went up to Mrs. Ellisor's and she gave them some bread. They then asked to be allowed to warm but she told them not to come in. 1 ney went on in awyway and he grabbed her and told her he would kill her. His brother grabbed him and told him not to kill her. He pushed her toward the back room and picked up the axe and struck her In the head. Brack turned her loose just before he struck her and walked out of the house. Ned said he put Mrs. Klllsor's body in the basket and covered it up and then took a gun, a lot of shells, coat, etc., and locked the door of the house miu imi. ne coia HracK to get liehind him and step in his (Ned'Rl tracks, which Brack did. They crossed the road and went through the woods toward Brookland. passing three men who were hunting. They got something to eat in Rrookland after he had sold the gun to Mr. Fox. Brack was worried about killing the "old woman" and told told him he "oughtn't to have done it." They crossed the bridge into Columbia and stopped at the C. N. & L. depot. They caught the midday train out hut got off up the road, a few miles. They walked from Irmo to Hilton, where they caught train No. 21 for Newberry. He told of their nrrest on the train and said that he lied to sheriff Buford about iheir aames and where they were from, rtc. Cocaine Fiend. With tears in his eyes Ned said, 'I'm de one dat's guilty of killing r lat 'owman. Mr brother is innocent c . .. BOOZE WINS FIGHT. DISPENSARY HAS CLOSE GALL IN AIKEN COUNTY. With Thiw Small Boxes Yet to be Heard From the Vote Stands 877 to 822. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says the election there Wednesday as to dispensary or prohibition resulted In a victory for the county dspensary by a very small majority. With all but three small boxes heard from the Hlmi?n?a,p? hao o lead of 55, and it is probable the other three boxes will run the majority up to 100 or more. Great luterest was taken in the election all over the county. Although the weather was threatening a large crowd was around the polls in Aikeu nil day. among whom were many ladies. About the time the returns began to come in it began to rain but notwithstanding this large crowds assembled around the bulletin boards ana waited for the returns which came in rapidly. It was a close election. The following is the total vote: For dispensary, 877; against dispensary, 822 and I did it because I'd been taking cocaine. I done it all and I just ask for mercy and dat you don't hang me." He said Brack begged him not to kill the woman, and if he had listened to him he would not be where he is now. Solicitor Timmerman asked Ned to explain the effects of cocaine and this is what he gave: "When you snuff cocaine and put it on your tongue it deadens the tongue?gives you more nerve than you want?looks like it make you do anything. Its a king of good feeling but you'll do anything. He said he had been "snuffing" cocaine for three or four years. Ned declared that the story told by Brack at Newberry was "made up." He said he told Brack to tell what he did, "so'b to keep the blame off'en me." He said his brother had always been n good boy. whereas he (Ned) had been in trouble often. H? said I he told Brack that he would shield him (Ned) on account of his bad "recommendation." This makes the fourth time he has been in jail; served on the chaingang for breaking in a store; he and "Young Bridges" robbed the Sligh postofhce and were sent to Atlanta, and he was sent to the chain gang once on account of some trouble he had with his wife. He said Mrs. Ellisor begged them not to kill her. but lie was scared and did it anyhow. Brack Tolnud'n Story. Brack Toland testified that he had been away from home but one time before the day when Mrs. Ellisor wat killed. He deniel having anything to do v/ith the killing of Mrs. Ellisor He said he told Sheriff Buford the story at Newberry in the hope of helping to shield his brother, that he told what he did because his brothei told him to tell it. He admitted telling Capt. Griffith that he held Mrs. Ellisor while hit rbother hit her in the head with the axe. He said this was not the truth that he was not holding her when Ned struck her. He begged Ned nol to kill her?told him that if he wanted anything in the house to get It. Fie was holding her with one hand and pushing his brother away with the other. Ned had hold of her with hie left hand and the axe was in his right hand. Ho turned her and his brother loose and ran out of the dooi when the first blow was struck. He went outside the house and was com Ing back up the steps when his brother came out. Ned locked the dooi and threw the key in the yard. The\ then left the house and went toward New Hrookland. Subsequent events were detailed and his story as to these was the same as told byNed. He didn't seem to realize the gravity of his situation and evidently was 1:1 hnrlnor ?? n /!/? * * ? ? * * ** .....u.n.h uiiuci intf impression mai the Jury would lie more lenient in dealing with him than it would in dealing with Ned. It appeared that he was after clearing himself regardless of what the consequences were as to Nod. There was nothing in his mauner to give the impression that the story told on the witness stapd was more truthful than that which he had told Capt. Grifith and Capt. Roberts, and few of the spectatosr believed tha t it was another "hatched up" story, concocked for the sole purpose of clearing hi? own skirts of the dastnrdly crime. Pleaded for Merry. After the jury brought in the verdict of guilty the prisoners were told to stand and receive the sentence of the Court Almost every man in the building rose to get a look at the negroes, but at the request of Sheriff Corley they quickly resumed their seats. Asked if they had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced, Ned said: "1 ask the court to have mercy upon me and please don't hang me. 1 am guilty, but my brother is innocent." When the question was put to i>rm-K n?* snin: i asK lor tno merov of the court, hut I am innocent; my brother done It." Judge DeVora then read the sentence of the court: "That the defendants. Ned and Brack Toland, be taken from whence they last came (penitentiary) and there b? kept in safe confinement until Friday May 1. lfirtS. when they are to ho taken to the regular plnce of execution for Lexington county, there to be hanged by their necks until they are dead, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 ). m." The "good old summer time" is ibout here, as witness the shirt ileeve brigade. The time you can depend on a wonan is when you can't on anybody )ls?. iiliai l>i i ? FARMER'S FRIENDS. SOME BIRDS THEY SHOULD PROTECT As Tfrey Destroy Inserts, Wood Seed end Numerous Other Enemies of the Farm. The substance of this article is but a summary of an account of the work of the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, prepared for the National Olographic Magazine by H W. Henshaw. The Biological Survey was er.tablished in 1885. with Dr. C| II. Merriara as director. The relations of the bird to the crops were not then well understood. It is not enough, says Mr. Henshaw. to be told that birds feed on insects; we must know the particular kindB they eat. The fact that the crow sometimes eats corn is not sufficient evidence on which to condemn the bird. We must learn the nature of its food at all times; hence the necessity for the examination of the birds stomachs to learn not only the kinds of food eaten, but their relative quantities. It Is not enough to know that birds eat insects, or that they destroy crops. Birds are injurious at one time and not at another; in one region a pest; in another a blessing. The Tree Sparrow ltonefloinl. We may roughly group our small birds into two classes?the seed eaters and the insect eaters. The seed eaters, mostly of the Sparrow family, have stout bodies and strong conical bills, especially designed for crushing seeds. Their name is legion and the family contains more species than any other group of birds. It is well that this is bu, for the destruction of weed seed Is of tremendous importance to the farmer, whose trouble to keep ahead of the weeds, great as it is now, would be vastly increased were it not for the soberly-clad and unobtrusive little sparrows. We may got I an idea of the value of the service these birds render by noting what is done for the farmer by the tree-sparrow, one of the most confirmed seedeaters of the group. A quartet of an ounce of seed for a day is a safe 1 .. 1 * raiiuiniti ui mc iuuu ui Mil mumii treesparrow. On this reckoning. In a Slate like Iowa, where agriculture Is relatively very important, treesparrowe eat about 875 tons of weed seed annually. The total value of the principal field crops of the United States for i the year 1906 was about $3,500,000,000. If we estimate that the combined consumption of weed seed by ! the sparrow family results in an an| nual saving of only 1 per cent, of the value of the crops the total sum total saved to thefarmer in 1906 was > $35,000,000. i Though seeds form the chief part > of the subsistence of Bparrows, the . destruction of seeds is by no means > all we have to thank these birds for. f They eat many Insects also, and 5 seems to know instinctively that while seeds are excellent for adult birds, they are necessarily good for i nestlings, and hence feed the latter 5 almost exclusively on Insects. ; Sparrows, however, are not the on, ly birds that consume the seeds of i weeds. The Eastern quail or l>obt white is a confirmed eater of weed seed. Highly esteemed as bobwhlte ? Is by the epicure for food and by 1 j the sportsman as an object of pur?, suit, he is probably worth so much i i ninrn a a n U'nnrl .Hnot rnvnr tbot t farmer can ill afford to have hint shot, even though the privilege is roundly paid for. A bevy or two of quail on a farm is an asset the value of which no thrifty farmer should overlook. Doves also are seed eaters. especially the turtle-dove, whose crop oftn 1b so packed with the seeds of weeds that. it. can hold no more. The farmer has no quarrel with birds that confine their attention to i grass and weed seed, and welcomes; their presence always and everywhere. There are birds, however, I which eat such seeds as corn, wheal and barley, and whose place in the farmer's esteem is by no means s" well assured?the crow and th< blackbirds for instance. There are several kinds of blackbirds which at limes attack crops as also does the crow. The destruction by the crow of meadow mice, and of cutworms and other insect pests and the destruction of many kinds of insects by the blackbirds, however, are considered in most localities to ofTset the I damage done in other ways and even ; to leave a balance in favor of the J birds. Birds That Eat Insects. Many flrds, as flycatchers, warblers, swaMows and chimney-swifts, live exclusively, or almost so, on insects, and very many more, as black! birds, orioles, and some hawks, de pend on them for a considerable pari of their livelihood. The little sparrow-hawk lives very Inrgely upon grasshoppers, crickets and beetles, and even one of the larger hawks? the Swainsou hawk of the Western plains?at certain seasons destroys ] enough of these injurious insects, toi gether with small ~ the VVeBtern farmer upwards of a hundred thousand dollars a yea r If all Insects preyed upon vegetation, our inquiry into the value of insect-eating birds need go uo fur- 1 ther, since all of them might be *et down as beneficial; but by no means all insects are destructive of vegetation, and their relations to each other and to birds are very complex and puzzling. The insects that feet! on vegetation at some stage or other of their existence probably encounter all others, both in number of species and of individuals; but there are H\o other classes of insects which deserve attention here, the predaceous and the parasitic. The predaceous insects. either in the adult or larval state, feed upon other insects and hence in the main are beneficial. It would seem, therefore, that in so far as birds destroy predaceous insects do them harm. That birds do destroy a greater or ^as number can,1 I ? not be denied, but as many species of this group secrete nauseous fluids, which serve, in a measure at least, to protect them, and as many are of retiring habits and not readily found, the number destroyed by birds is relatively not large. Moreover, some of the predaceous insects, when insect food is not available, become vegetarians. and hence assume the role of enemies of the farmer; so that when birds destroy predaceous insects they may be doing the farmer either a good turn or an ill turn, according to circumstances. The relation of birds to the socalled parasitic insects is still more Intricate and puzzling. Parasitic insects fill a very important place in iue economy 01 nature; n is even claimed by entomologists that they do more effective service in aiding to keep true the balance in the insect world than any other agency. They attack insects in every stage of exisence and insure their destruction by depositing eggs, on, or in, the bodies of adults, their larvae (the worm or caterpillar stage), their pupae, or their eggs. Now, birds recognize uo tine distinctions in the insect world. All is grist that comes to the avian mill, and parasitic Insects are snapped up by birds without the slightest regard to the fact that they are useful to man. Hence we have a complicated problem to unravel in respect to the inerrelation of insect pests, of insect parasites that destroy them, and of birds that destroy both pest and their parasites. Hawks and Owls Beneficial. The hawks and red owls spend most of their lives in killing small rodents. Their work is complementary. Hftwks hunt their prey between the hours of daylight and dark; owls hunt in the early evening and morning hours, or by moonlight; sometimes when pressed by hunger by day. 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