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m. THEY WILL HANG, iwi srnM mnwrvrs nvinpiiy Convlctpd Ovtr hi Lixington. TEL OFTH0RICRME Whir* Wm Bnitel la th* Th* BUjpri at Aged Mr*. Elllaor Girea Qmkfc Trial and Will Be fl|***dtly ihtecfd A Very Larye Crowa WIUMhwd the Trial, bat Pawed Off Quietly. Ned and Brack Toland, th* two aTafro boy* who killed Mr*. France* .KlllHor at Cayee, aero** the river tram Colonble, on Wednesday, Feb- raary ft, were convicted at Lexing ton, on Tuesday of murder in the ftr*t degree add Judge James W.-De- Vore aentenced then to hand on Fri day. May I. The trfaTconsumed only about eight hour*.. ~ Capt Jo*. R. Allen and the Rich land Volunteer* escorted the prison ers to Le^ngton Tuesday morning from th* South Carolina penitentiary andthroughout the trial remained on duty, with fixed bayonets, around the •.prison dock. The court room was crowded to it* capacity and there went not lew than 800 people in town to witness the trial. There was not the •llghtept sign of drunkenness and perfect order prevailed throughout the day. Judge DeVore of Edgefield, the MWly elected Judge of the Eleventh' .circuit was commissioned by Governt o* Ansel /to hold the special term of^ court ordered to try the Toland broth- •rs. He proved an excellent presid ing judge, and there ww not p hitch la the proceedings of the court from th* opeaiag to th# Hour when the crier, announced it adjourned sine die. Th* trip was made to Lexington without mishap. A crowd of perhaps 180 men Were at the^atatlon at Lex ington when the train arrlvedf. but the ’ engineer, exercising due caution, ran past the Staton about SOO yards, where the soldiers detrained and. with the prisoners in the centre of company platoons, the march to Lex ington court bouse, one mile and a half distant, was begun. The pris oners were extremely nervous ard waned to be momentarily in fear of receiving bodily harm and three times between th* station and . the conn houw It was necessary for the mill tla to halt for five minute periods lo allow the aegroeb to rwt, Ned Toland giving out eomplete]|, As they neared th* coart building wveral men on the corner of the street opposite th* entrance of the court houw yelled three or four tlmw, and some person loudly called, "Where arc you niggers?”—but noth ing was started. The crowd in front of the balding cleared the way for th* mlliatia and prisoners and soon they were safely in th* court room ^ and the negroes seated in the dock Hers a Mns of militia was placed on each side of the aisle, on the outer side of the bar railing, a line on each aids cf the aisle inside the rail ing and food at either corner of the prison dock. Two yound lawyers were appointed by the Judge to defend the murderers aad the defendants were then formal ly placed on trial and a plea of not guilty ww entered as to each. Under th* law a defendant can not plead gaiKy In a caw th* possible outcome of which Is capital punishment. Foaad the Body. Mr. Paul Elllsor, nusband of the deceased, ww the first witness. He twtlfled that when he left his home at Cayce on the morning of Feb. 26, to go to New Brookland, he left bis wife there, In good health. He left his home about 7 o'clock and re turned about 11. The house was locked. When he entered he found Sis wife’s dead obdy in a clothee bas ket In the rear room, with clothes and quilts thrown over her. Her clothes were bloody and there were wounds on her head and face. He stated that he missed a gun, loaded shells, a rasor, a coat, his wife's cloak and other articles from the room. He identified the coat, which at that very moment Brack Toland ww wearing, as the coat that was taken from hs house the morulr£ of the murder. Hie gun had been returned to him by Mr. M. P. Fox. The gun was identified by witness and placed In evdence. It ia a single barreled breech loader. 4 The axe with which the crime 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 raaor, three hankerchiefs and three watch chains which w«rq found on Brack Toland by Sheriff Buford. Two chalw, hankerchiefs, etc found on Ned Toland by Sheriff Bu ford were identified by Mr Klilsor Witnew testified that he was the first to .reach his wife end wheh he discovered her body in the bwl:et life ww extinct. There whs a bad gash In the u.? of the head and another vgly wouna on the aide of her face. Thecp ww blood on her drew, espec ially around the throat. There ww ns sign of a struggle. As soon as hs eonld recover from the’shock he hie neighbors of the crime. I Arrest. M. M. Buford, sheriff of Newberry eonnty, testified that hs mad* the ar- rest of Ned and Brack Toland on the night of Feb. t< between Hilton and UMo Mountain, on the Columbia, Nswbprry and Laurens railroad. The ww made on the train. He ■ ColamMa on the day -hat ww murdered.' Intended train for Newberry, but by Mr. L. B. Aber- him that Mr Adam to talk with him to this line of testimony w being here- say and witnew ww Instructed that he couldn’t tell what fibers had said to him. ' He told of receiving Information from Conductor John- C. McCain of th* presence in the . forward part of the train that two negroes whom the conductor bad suspected w having been connected with the murder. He arrested them and took them to the Newberry Jail. They denied any knowledge of the crime. * La(er he telephoned for Mr. MrT. Fox to ceme to Newberry and Identify the prison ers. Mr. Fox and Mr. Abernathy came up.early Thursday morning and after the former identified them they were taken to Columbia and placed in the penitentiary for Cafe 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 bad not been laid and on further ground that the statement was made after the negroes had been told that they were In danger. The solicitor did not insist on the statpmest and this feature ww dropped. Sheriff Buford identified the arti cles found on the defendants. Confessed to Gspt. Griffith. BOOZE WINS FIGHT. DISPENSARY HAS CLOSE GALL HI > AIKEN COUNTY, Capt. D. J. Griffith, superintendent pf the State penitentiary, testified that the defendants - were placed In the penitentiary on February 27. He had a conversation with both of them In his office a few days later. They made voluntary statements about the EHis- or murder. Brack was the first to ipake 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 said 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. Elllsor lived. . They went Into the house and asked for some bread. She gave them some biscuits and they offered to pay- fo? It but she refused to take any pay. They then started Into th# house to warm. Mrs. Elllsor, 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 1 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 gun to * maa at New Brookland and then went to Columbfe, taking the train from there sui going to irnTb; that they walked up the railroad from-Irmo to Hilton, boarding the C.. N. «hd L. train there and being arrested a few minutes lat er by Sheriff Bwford, = Capt. Griffith satd he warned Brack before he made any statement that it would be used against him. After Brack was sent back to bis cell, Ned was brought to the office and made substantially the same statement as that made by Brack, he too, being warned that he could not be made to make &ay confession and that whatever he said would be used against him. Capt. C. C. Roberts of the peniten tiary guard corrobated Capt. Griffith’s testimony. The statements made by Ned and Brack Toland were made in his hearing as well as In the hearing of Corporal J. P. Harllng. Ned Toland on Stand. Ned Toland was sworn for the de fense He said be was frotai Pros perity. Left home on Monday (Feb 24); told his brother that he was go ing 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. Mter getting dinner he and his brother went to Cayce. He carried coal for the operator at Cayce and the latter allowed the two to sleep 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 softethtng to eat; shw 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 after noon, when they returned to Capce and again used the waiting room to sleep In. Leaving the station Wednesday morning, he took some more cocaine. He had but ono nickel left. He and his brother started out, his brother saying that he was hungry. They went up to Mrs. Ellisor's and she gave them some bread. They then aske^l to be allowed to warm but she told them not to come in. luey 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 to ward 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. . ^ • *. •' —=r~' - Ned said he put Mrs. Ellisor’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 and left. He told Brack to get be hind him and step in his (Ned's) tracks, which Brack did. They cross ed the road and went through the wpoda toward Brookland, passing three men who were hunting.' They got soifiething to eat in Brookland 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 info Co lumbia and stopped at the C. N. A L. depot. They caught the midday train out but 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 arrest on the train and said that he Had to sheriff Buford about their names and where they were from, etc. With Three fimnll Boxes Yet to be Heard From the Vote Stand* 877 ,, to sea. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says the election there Wednes day as to dispensary or prohibition resulted in a victory for the county dspensary by a very small majority. With all .but three email boxes heard from the dispensary has a lead of 66, and It !e probable the other three boxes will run the ma jority up to 100 or more. Great Interest was taken in the election all over the county. Al though the weather was threatening a large crowd was around the polls In Aiken all 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 bulle tin boards and waited for the returns which came in rapidly. It was a close election. The following ie the total vote: For dispensary, 877; against.dispensary, 822 FARMER'S FRIENDS. flOME BBUM THEY SHOULD PRO- .. TBCT j. As They Destroy Insects, Weed Seed and Numerous Other Enemies of 'ffes Vnik in his eyas Ned said date guilty of killing 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 „. _ tt * me. He said Brack begged him not to kill the woman, and if he had listen ed to him he would not be where he Is now. Solicitor Timmerman asked Ned to explain the effects of cocaine and thia is what he gave: "When you snuff cocaine and put it on your tongue it deadens the ton gue—gives you more nerve than you want—looks like R make you do any thing. Its a king of good fooling but you'll *do anything. He said be had been “anuffing" 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's to keep the blame off’en me.” He said his brother had always been a good boy, whereas he (Ned) had been in trouble often. He said be told Brack that he would shield him (Ned) on account of bit bad "recommendation.” This makes the fourth time he has been in jail; serv ed on the ehahtgang for breaking in a store; he and "Young Bridges” rob bed the Sligh postofflee 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 Mr*. Elllsor begged them not to kill her, but he was scare* did it anyhow. Brack Toland'* Story. Brack Toland testified that he had been away from home but one time before the day when Mrs. Elllsor was killed. He denlel having anything to do with the klllln B of Mrs. Elllsor. He said he told Sheriff Buford the story at Newberry In the hope of helping to shield bis brother, that he told what he did because his brother told him to tell It. He admitted telling Capt. Griffith that he held Mrs. Elllsor while hie rbother hit her in the head with the axe. He said this was not the troth, that he was not holding her when Ned struck her. He begged Ned not to kill her—told him that If he want ed anything in the house to get It. He was holding her with one hand and poshing his brother away with the other. Ned had hold of her With his left hand and the axe waa In his right hand. He turned her and his brother loose and ran out of the door when the first blow was struck. He went outside the house and was com ing back up the steps when his broth er cant* out. Ned locked the door and threw the key in the yard. They then left the house and went toward New Brookland. Subsequent events were detailed and his story as to these was the same'as told byNed. He didn't seem to realize the gravi ty of his situation and evidently was laboring under the impression, that the jury would be more lenient in dealing with him than It would In dealing with Ned. It appeared that he was after clearing himself regard less of wbat the consequences were as to Ned. There was nothing in his manner to give the impression that the story told on the witness stand was more truthful than that which he had told 'Capt. Grifith and Capt. Roberts, and few of the specta- tosr believed ths t It was another "hatched up” story, concocked for the sole purpose' of clearing his own skirts of the dastardly crime. Pleaded for Mercy. ’■ After the jury brought- In the ver dict 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 ne groes, but at the request of Sheriff Corley they quickly resumed their seats. - ^ * Jn Asked If they had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced, Ned said: “I ask the court to have mercy upon me and please don’t hang me. I am guilty, but my brother is Innocent.” When the question was put to Brack he said: ”1 ask for the mercy of the court, but I am innocent; my brother done it.” Judge DeVore then read the sen tence of the court: “That the defend ants, Ned and Brack Toland, be tak en from whence they last came (peni tentiary) and there be kept in safe confinement until Friday May 1, 1908, when they are to ^e taken to the regular place of execution for Lexington county, there to be hang ed by their necks until they are dead, between the hears of ID'S. m. and 2 p: td.” " , The substance of this article ie but s summary of an account of the York of tke Biological Survey of the De partment of Agriculture, prepared for the National Geographic Magazine by H W. Henshaw. Th* Biological Survey was ectab- tlshed In 1886, with Dr. Cl II. Mer- riam at director. The relations of the bird to the orops were not then well understood. It is not enough, says Mr. Henahaw, to be told that birds feed on insects; we must know the particular kinds they eat. The fact that the crow sometimes eats corn Is not sufficient evidence on which to condemn the hird. We must learn the nature of Its food at •II times; hence the necessity for the examination of the birds stom achs to learn not only the kindl bf food eaten, but their relative quan tities. It Is not enough .to Jrnow that birds sat Insects, or that they destroy crops. Birds ere Injurious at one time and not at another; in one re gion a pest; in another a blessing. The Tree Sparrow Beneficial. We may roughly group our small birds into two classes—the seed eat ers and the insect eaters. Th* seed eaters, mostly of the Sparrow family, have stout bodies and strong conical bills, especially designed for crushing seeds. Their nama is legion and the family con tains more species than any other group of birds, jit is well that this is so, for th* destruction of weed seed is of tremendous Importance to the fanner, whose trouble to keep ahead of the weeds, great as it Is now, wonld be vastly Increased were it not for the soberly-clad and unob trusive little sparrows. We may get an idea of the value of the aervlce these birds render by noting what is done for the farmer by the trqe-spar- row, one of the most confirmed seed- eaters of the group. A quarter of an ounce of seed for a day Is a safe estimate of the food of an adult treesparrow. On this reckoning, in a 8tate like Iowa, where agriculture is relatively very Important, tree- sparrows eat about 876 tons of wood not be deMed, but as auay species of this group secret* nauseous fluids, which serve, la a measure at least, to protect thear, sad, as many are of retiring habits a»4 not readily found, the number destroyed by birds is rel atively not large. Moreover, eome of the predaceous Insects, when Insect food is not available, become vege tarians, and banco assume the role of enemies of th* farmer; so that when birds destroy predaceous in sect* they may be doing the farmer either a good turn or an III tarn, according to circumstances. Th# relation of birds to tke so- called parasitic insects is stilt more Intricate and pnxxling. Parasitic In sects fill a very important plsca In the economy of nature; It is even claimed by entomologists that they do more effective service in aiding to keep true the balane* In the insect world than any other agency. They attack insects in every stage of ex- isenc# and Insure their destruction by depositing eggs, on, or In, the bodies of adults, their larva* (th* worm or caterpillar stage), their- pupae, or their eggs. Now, birds recognize no fine distinctions in the insect world. AJ1 is grist that comes to the avian mill, and parasitic insects ar* snap ped up by birds without the slightest regard to the fact that they are use ful to man. Hence we have a compli cated problem to unravel in respect to the Inerrelatlon 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 Wbrk is complementary. Hawks hunt their prey between th* hours of daylight ajid dark; owls hunt In the early evening and morning hours, or by moonlight; sometimes when pressed by hunger by day. The bulk of the depredations on birds and chickens due to haw'ks Is committed by three species—the Cooper and sharp-shinned' hawks and the goshawk; and the sportsman and farmer s boy should learn to know tbe daring robbers by sight, SO a# to kill them whenever possible. IJbe so-called “hen-hawks," usually elthef the red-shouldered or redtail hawk, ar* too ofted made victims of a bad of The "good Old summer time” is about here, as witness the shirt] sleeve brigade. Tbe time you can depend on a wo- > when you can't on anybo4y seed annually. Tbe total value of the principal field crops of the United States for th# year 1906 was about $3,500,000,- 000. If wa estimate that the com bined consumption of weed seed by & the sparrow family resuW* la aa. an nual saving of only 1 per cent, of the value of the crops tbe total sum total saved to thefarmer In 1906 was $35,000,000. Though seeds form the chief part of the subsistence of sparrows, the deetruction of seeds Is by no means all we have to thank these birds for They eat many Insects also, and seems to know instinctively that while seeds are excellent for adult birds, they are necessarily good for nestlings, and hence feed the latter almost exclusively on insects. Sparrows, however, are not the on ly birds that consume the seeds weeds. Th* Eastern qusll or bob- white ie a confirmed eater of weed seed. Highly esteemed ts bobwhl is by the epienre for food and b> th* sportsman as an object of pur suit, he Is probably worth so much mors as S weed-destroyer that the farmer can ill afford to have him shot, even though the privilege la roundly paid for. A bevy or two of quail ou a .farm is an asset the value of which' no thrifty farmer should overlook. Doves also are seed eat ers, especially the turtle-dove, whose crop oftn Is 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 grass and weed seed, and welcomea their presence always and every where. There are birds, however, which eat such seeds as corn, wheat and barley, and whose place In thp farmer’s esteem is by no means so well assured—the crow and th blackbirds for Instance. There ar<- several kinds of blackbirds which at tiroes attack crops as also does the crow. The destruction by the crow of meadow mice, and of cutworms and other insect pests and the de struction of many kinds of insects by th* blaekblrde, however, are consid ered in most localities to offset the damage done in other ways and even to leave a balance in favor of the birds. > Birds That Eat Insects. Many flrds, aa flycatchers, warb lers, swallows and chlmney-swlGs. live exclusively, or almost so, on In sects, and very many more, as black birds, orioles, and some hawks, de pend on them for a considerable pan of their livelihood. The little spar- row-Jjawk lives very largely upon grasshoppers, crickets and beetles, and even one of the larger hawks*—, the Swalnson hawk of the Western plains—at certain seasons destroys enough of these injurious Insects, to gether with small rodents, to save the Western farmer upwards of a hundred thousand dollars s yea r If all Insects preyed upon vegeta tion, bur inquiry Into the -value of Inaect^eitlng bii% need go no fur ther, sigoe all of them might be *et down as Mffieflcial; but by no means Mi lfiibetl^iro destructive of vege tation, and'their relatione to each other and to birds are very complex and pnssling. The insects that feed on vegetation at some stage or other of their existence probably encounter all others, both In number of specie* and of individuals; but there are two other ciaaaea of Insects which deservo attention here, ths predaceous aid th* parasitic. Ths predaceous tn- sects. either in ths adult or larval ■tats, feed upon other Insects and hsaes in the Main are beneficial. It would seem, therefore, that In ee far aa blfd« destroy predaceous Insects That birds As de nt ms; for while both specie* occa sionally snatch a chicken, the habit is far too uncommon to justify the asm* "hen-hawk." Tbs good these two big hawks do jn the long run by destroying rats and mice far mora than compensates the farmer for th* insignificant damage^ he suffers at their talons. Both hawks and owls often swal low their prey entire or In large frag- and often some of the feathers. Avian and ven some of the feathers. Avian digestion is both good and rapid, but ia is unequal to the task of assimila ting such substances, and accordingly both hawks and owls throw up these rejects In the form of neatly rolled pellets.. In studying the food habits of birds of prey much use is made of these pellets, and the vicinity of a nest of a pair of horned owls, for instance often contains an unmistak-, abla record of the birds’ food, and perhaps that of th* young, for WHEN CLASSIFIED COLUMN. WANTED. f went to find a case of indigestion or constipation I can’t curq. James Wood, 372 Eighth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Wanted—You to send us your pistes and film* if you w*nt th# beet re sults. W* guarantee satisfaction Send a postal for our price list. R. * G. Yeung Co., Box 117, Atlanta, Ga. WANTED—TEACHERS. Teachers Wanted-^Grad# Teachern. Principals, Supts., Specialist*. Di rect call*. Fall openings through out Carolinas and entire South. No registration fee required. Write Carolina branch for "Yard of Our Record.” Foster Teachers* Bureau, Clinton, S. C. LAND FOR SALE. For ~Hele—1,000 acre* fine farming land. Macon County, Georgia. Rail Road station on place. Forty thous and bearing fruit trees, Flock. 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