The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 15, 1922, Page 4, Image 4
Murderers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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mar and his many friends are
greatly shocked at the news of his
death. He leaves a large family.
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woman barrister, recently conducted
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