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Murderers of V Talk t? Mis "How does it feel to stand here " face to face with the father of the boy you killed?'' This question was asked Sunday morning in the death house at the state penitentiary of-S. J. Kirby, C. O. Fox and Jesse Gappins by W. E. Brazell, father of William Brazell, the young taxi driver,* for whose mur- j der Kirby, Gappins and Fox are to j die in the electric chair Friday, and i the only answer the three men could give was the repetition of their stories as to how the crime took place. It was Mr. Brazell's first visit to the three men since their sentencing, although he had sat through the trial and had twice heard Kirby, Gappins and Fox sentence to die. The trip was made at the request of Kirby, who asked Mr. Brazell to call at the death house to see him before the electrocution. None of the three men recognized Mr. Brazell when he confronted them, separated from them only by tbe barren ceil doors. 'I'm glad to see you," Kirby told the murdered boy's father, "but not here. I wanted to see you before I left this world to tell you that be4 lore God I'm sorry for what I did. I would to God that I could exchange with your boy and would gladly lay down my life if I could bring him back." "What ^ never could understand," Mr. Brazell interrupted, "is why you three big strapping men had to kill j my little boy to take bis car.'' * "It's^ mystery to me, too," Kirby said. "I'd never ^seen him before. Gappins and Fox were waiting for me at the Seaboard station and they told me first to get Big Bill's car and it had been burned up so they told me then to get any car and I saw your boy's car parked near Main street. It was the first one I came to and that's j the reason that he was killed." - Boy's Mother Invalid. "Kirby," Mr. Brazell told him, "you > - have talked a good deal about your wife and I am sorry for her, but did you ever think of my poor boy's * x 1 ? inTT.oli/I of tho I Ill (J VV JLLU VY ao ail mvanu uv ' 7 I: < time of the boy's murder and ever since?" "I am sorry for them and for you," Kirby answered. "I am sorry for what I did and I wish that the boy had killed us all three rather than have it happen as it did. But I want some one to look out for my wife and child when I am dead." "Well," Mr. Brazell told him in parting, "as far as you are concerned .1 leave it up to you and your God." > Gappins denied any knowledge of ?r the fact that young Brazell was to kave been killed, claiming that he had thought that Kirby was to pick ur a car on the street which they could then drive to Florida and sell. "If I had known he was to be killed," Gappins told Mr. Brazell, "I would nnt cone. If it had been left to ?. -? 0 me he~would have been alive today." "You held his hand while he was being killed," Mr. Brazell told him. "You drove the car. If could not have been carried out if you had left them. Why didn't ydu quit?%You have had a lot to say about your mother since'1 you have been here. Why didn't you ,' % think about the mother of my boy? He was the only companion she had; I was away from the house during the day. Why didn't you think about - her and your mother before you committed the crime?" 'j-' Gappins hung his head. "I know how his mother feels," he said. "And I'm sorry for her." Mr. Brazell turned to leave. "Gappins," he said, "I believe you are the worst of the three of you. You have tried to shield yourself behind Fox and Kirby and you and Kirby lacked il.. 4- EVwv the courage to piay uie y<u i uav wa / did." "I'm ready to meet my God with the story I have told," Gappins said, and Mr. Brazell then turned to Fox, who is confined in the adjoining cell. Sorry for Fox. "Fox," he said, "I feel sorry for you. I met your father and I found found him to be a gentleman and he told me that he had tried to raise you right. But, I suppose, you came here away from home and got in with the bad company you did. You, I believe, have told the truth." "Yes," Fox answered, "my father's a good man and I don't say so be cause he is my father. I've nothing to say against my raising. Gappins told me about it first and then about a week later Gappins and Kirby and I talked it over together and that night Kirby went and got the car while we waited at the Seaboard station. Then we got in and Kirby told ! him where to go. I diad the black i jack which had been given to Gap-! pins by Kirby and to me by Gappins. Several times along the road Gappins and Kirby got out of the car and talked together and each time they would come back and tell me what they had plotted. Finally Kirby got in the back seat with me and told f / oung Brazelle Father Sunday | me to tell the boy to stop and then | to hit him with the black jack. I did ; and the black jack flew to pieces and Kirby and Gappins got out on the right hand side of the car with the boy while I got out on the left. When I came around the back of the car they were holding him and Kirbv was choking him. I had opened my knife and Kirby told me to stab him ?that something had to be done. And I stuck the knife in him while the other two held him. Once my concfMonpa rovnlted against it. and I step ped away, but they told me to go on and I did. I'm not denying my part. I am sorry. I was in with them and j had promised to help them and I did." "I hope you have found peace," the boy's father told Fox in leaving. "It is now between you and your God." Fox showed the most genuine emotion of the three while, Gappins appeared to be in an argumentative, almost defiant mood. "If ever three men went to hell," Mr. Brazell said as he left the death hnnco "T helieve these three will go." WOUNDS OFFICER AND IS KILLED Fifty-Year-Old Farmer Near Greer Resists?Small Battle Staged. Greenville, June 10.?After shooting Deputy Sheriff Ben Patris, when an attempt was made to arrest him on a lunacy warrant, Dargan Beaco, fifty-year-old farmer of near Greer, was almost instantly killed near his home at noon when a fusilade of shots was returnei by the wounded officer and Deputy Sheriff E. S. Cothran. A bullet clipped off his left shoulder, piercing his lungs and lodged in his right arm. Deputy Parris was rushed to the city hospital here and is reported as painfully though not seriously injured, more than a hundred shots of about No. 6 size having taken effect in his legs, left side and left hand. Deputy Parris and Deputy G. L. Jones attempted to arrest the man, Friday night but on account of leaving the warrant and because Beaco drew his knife suggestively when mention of his going to Greenville was made, the officers withdrew in hopes of returning today and persuading him to accompany them without difficulty. When Deputy Parris returned this morning with Deputy Cothran to get the man, who is said to have terrified the neighborhood with his threats and cruelty to his family, they sighted him in a field nearby. * * When they stepped from the car and approached in a friendly manner in on affnrt tn snirit him awav. the man retreated several steps and, picking up a single barrelled Shotgun, ordered the officers to leave his premises, firing at Deputy Parris as he uttered the command. When the officer was shot Deputy Cothran leaped behind a terrace and with the wounded officer emptied his pistol, apparently noting that Deputy Parris did not fall, Beaco loaded his gun a second time and throwing it to his shoulder, fired a second time at the officer; then loading a third time, discharged it in the direction of Deputy Cothran, the bullets clipping the top of the terrace. As the man attempted to push another shell into the barrel, the 'gun refused to breach and the fatal ball took effect in the man's body.* Falling backward, he died before he could be carried to the car. The body was ri^|hed on to Greenville by Deputy Cothran, together with the wounded officer. Beaco, it is said, was held at one "time in the state asylum. HAMPTOXIAN TAKES OWN LIFE. J. R. Taylor, County Commissionerr Fires Bullet Into Brain. Hampton, June 7.?County commissioner, J. R. Taylor, of Early Branch, took his own life at his home at an early hour this morning by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. Mr. Taylor was at Hampton both Monday and Tuesday and was apparently in the best of health and in his usual good spirits. Those not closely connected with him did not suspect that he had any kind of trouble preying upon him but it is stated that his actions were being inj vestigated by the grand jury now in session, it being Charged that he had | been "padding" claims against the county for the past several months and he had been notified to appear bef/vra hot "hndv thie morning at 9:30 I IV/i ^ lilUW W VV4J _ o'clock. Mr. Taylor was a very popular mar and his many friends are greatly shocked at the news of his death. He leaves a large family. Fraulein Munk, Germany's first woman barrister, recently conducted her first defense with great skill and success. 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