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I. THEY wk HANG. | > j V .4 . Two Brutal Murderers Promptly Convicted Ov?r IhUYIngton. * V . TELL OF THBRICRME A v ?it* 'A \ Whic? Was Ib'Mtit) in. Kxlirmp? 1 The Hlayers^of Aged Mfr*. BUlsor d.'iven Quick Trial .'and Will Be | Speedily ExeL Uted M Ve*r Large Crown Wliumed (Ko Trial, but' Everytliing I*?sstd On Qntetly. Ned and Brack Tolaftll. *ttte two negro boys who killed Mrs. Frances Ellisor ut Cay ee, across^ the river from Columbia, on We(jta<?&day, February 26, wore convicted at xA'Xinnrton. on Tuesday of ihurdet* iu (bo 1 liiKt rlerriKf unri Tnito'o ln?A,i Tkr ii r,. - v ...... .? ItUICO . I IV | Voro sentenced them to hand, on Fri-j1 day. May 1. The trial consumed only about eight hours.. ? ' *. 1 ('apt. .1 (is. IP Allen and the Richland Volunteers escorted'prison- ! ers to Lexington Tuesday morning' from the South Carolina penitentiary j' andthroughout the trial remained on j1 duty, with fixed bayonets, around the > prison dork. The court room was i crowded to its capacity and there were!1 not less than 800 poople 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 tlie special term of court ordered to try ihe Toland brothers. He proved an excellent presiding judge, and there was not a hitch in the proceedings of the court from J the opening to the hour when theorier announced it adjourned sine die. The trip was made to Lexington without mishap. A crowd of perhaps 100 men were at the station at Lexington when the train arrived, but the engineer, exercising due caution, ran past the staton ulxnit 300 yards, where t.ho soldiers detrained and, with the pri oners 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 a'd seemed to be momentarily in fear of receiving bodily harm and three times between the station and the court house it was necessary for the militia to halt for live minute periods to allow the nogroes 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?"?hut nothing was started. The crowd iu front of the huldtng* cleared the way for the miliatia and prisoners and soon I Hfiv vvoi'M in I Kn ? v.vV n X I V |?? IV.JJ in VII*: U I I WV/ ! U and the negroes seated in the dock Here a line of militia was placed on each side of the aisle, on the outer hide of the bar railing, a line on each side of 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 was entered as to each. Under the law a defendant can not plead guilty in a case the possible outcome of which is capital punishment. Pound tin* Body. Mr. Paul Mllisor, husband of the deceased, was the ilrst witness. ' He testified that when he left his home at Cayce on the morning of Feb. 26, to go to New Hrookland, he left his wife there, in good health. He.'left his home about 7 o'clock and re\ turned about 11. The house was locked. When be entered b<? found his wife's dead obdy in a clotpps basket in the rear room, with! clothes and quilts thrown over )\&r. Hei clothes were bloody and thefp wort i wounds on her head and face. H* stated that he missed a gun/^dAded shells, a razor, a coat, bis ^ife'i <6Ioak and other articles from the room. He identliled the cQfc'te whlcl at that very, moment Brack Tolaiu was wearing, as the coat tUftt wai i taken from bs house the mtyrning o | me murder. /./<? His gun had been returned >o hin by Mr. M. P. Fox. gnu wai identified by witness attjjT ji *****%&< 6V<lence- ,s a barr*le< jfc breech loader. # The axe with which the crime wa committed was identified and put ii Jp evidence. He said that the h*e yva standing at the (ootjYtpt th< bed and there was blood on the table It had been used to breaVfcopen th< 41 trunk. He identified the rafcor, thre< hankerchlefs and three vyjjAch-chtfin which were found on Brick Tolant fyt'WS0 ^y Sheriff Ruford. ^ J Two chains, hankerchiefs, at c. \ J Xoubd o#Ned Toland by Sheriff Hu ford were Identified by *Mr Xol 1 Ic-o Witness testified that hja'was thi first to reach his wife and when h< discovered hor body in the'baF):et lib was extinct. There Wat* a bad gasl in the top of the head httd anothe ugly wounu on the side Of hfer face There was blood on her drains, b?pec * fad I jr around the throat./ There wai hu sign of a . struggle. 'Ai fcohn ui he could recover from the, Wock h< informed his neighbors fit the dtime ? 1.7V \ ' ** .. * f yJr kL. ' '' ' ^ W' n Sheriff Ilufonl Made Avrcht. M. M. Buford, sheriff of Newberry! county, testified that he made the ar-j rest of Ned and Brack Toland on the i night of Feb. 21? between Hilton and Little Mountain on the Columbia, i Newberry and Laurens railroad. The; arrest was made on the train. He' was in Columbia on the day hat Mrs. Kliisor was murdered. Intended taking 7.25 train for Newberry, but .was called off by Mr. L. it. Abe*nuthy, who told him that Mr Adam; D. Shuli wanted to talk with him \ about this murder. There were a series of objections to this line of testimony as being herosay and witness was instructed that he couldn't tell what others had said to him. He told of receiving Information frotn Conductor John O. McCain of' the presence in the forward part of' the train that tvo negroes whom theconductor had suspected us having I been connected with tin* murder. He; arrested them and took them to th?i Newberry jail. They denied any j knowledge of the crime. latter he telephoned for Mr. M F. Fox to come to Newberry and identify the prisoners. Mr. Fox and Mr. Abernathy j same/lip early Thursday morning and after tho former identified them they : were taken to Columbia and placed in the penitentiary for safe keeping. Sheriff IJufonl started to tell of ;i statement made by Brack Toland while in the Newberry jail, but thi< was objected to by counsel for the! defendants on tho gruotid that propei grounds for introducing a confession! had not been laid and on further ground that t he statement was made j after the negroes had boon told that they were in danger. Tho solicitor did not insist on the statement and tills feature was dropped. Sheriff Buford identified the arti-j eles found on the defendants. Confessed to ('apt. (iridith. Capt. I>. .J. (iriflith, superintendent j i the State penitentiary, testified that the defendants were placed in the i penitentiary on February U7. lie had a conversation with both of them in' his office a few days Inter. They made voluntary statements about the 1011 is- j or murder. Brack was the first to make a statement about the affair. He said he had never been away from j home before; was induced by bis; brother to accompany him on this, trip, telling him that lie ( Xed ) knew where they could got some money, lie! 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 wont to the house where Mrs. Fllisor 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, ho said, at first made no objection to their warming, hut that she told thorn that she believed they were "up to some meanness." Brack said that they grabbed her and while his brother got the axe lie held her tight. N'ed 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 a man at New Brookland and then went to Columbia, taking the train from there and going to Irmo; that, they walked up the railroad from Irmo to Hilton, boarding the C., N. and l<. train there and being arrested a few minutes later by Sheriff Buford. Capt. (irifilth said he warned Brack before lie made any statement that it would be used against lit 111. After Brack was sent back to his cell, Ned was brought to the office and made substantially Hie same statement as that made by Brack, he i too, being warned that lie could not lie made to make any confession and that whatever he said would be used ! against him. i Capt. C. C. Roberts of the peniteni ttary guard corrobated Capt. Griffith's , testimony. The statements made by i Ned and Brack Toland were made In his hearing as well as in the hearing of Corporal J. P. Hailing. I Nod 'Poland <?n Stand. i Nod Toland was sworn for the do fetise. He said he was from I'rosi perity. Heft home on Monday (Feb. 24); told his brother that he was got ing to Columbia. His brother and he i "beat" the local freight to Columbia I When they reached Columbia thej 5 went to a restaurant. lie bough) i some cocaine from a negro named i Luther. After getting dinner he and I his brother went to Cayce. He carried * coal for the operutor at Cayce and th( f latter allowed the two to sleep ii the waiting room. They swept ou l the waiting room the next mornint s and then they left and went up tin & dirt road and stopped at a lady'i i house and got something to oat; sav Mr. Ellisor working in the field nea b his home. After Retting something to eat at the lady's house they wen 8 Into the woods and built up a fire 0 staying there until late In the after noon, when they returned to Capc< 0 and again used the waiting room t< 0 sleep in. 0 Leaving the station Wednesda: 1 morning, he took some more cocaine He had but one nickel left. He an< . his brother started out, his brothe " saying that he was hungry The; r went up to Mrs. Ellisor's and she gav< 0 them some bread. They then aske< 0 to be allowed to warm but alio toh 0 them not to come in. '1 ney went oi 1 in awyway and he grabbed her an< r told her ho would kill her. Hii brother grabbed him and told bin " not to kill her. He pushed hor to 3 ward the back room and picked uj 3 the axe and struck her in the head 3 Brack turned her loose just befon he struck her and walked out of tin house. No<1 said ho put Mrs. Ellisor's body in the basket and covered it up und then took a gun, a lot of shells, coat, etc., and locked the door of the house and left. He told Brack to get tiehind hini and step in his (Ned's) tracks, which Brack did. They crossid the road and went through the woods toward Brook land, passing three men who were hunting. They got something to eat In Brookland after he had sold the gun to Mr. Pox. 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 but got off up the road, a few miles. They walked from Irmo to Hilton, where they caught train No. 'J 1 for Newberry, lie told of their arrest on the train and said that he lied to sheriff Buford about their names and where they were from, etc. Cocaine Fiend. With tears in hi- eyes Ned said, "I'm de one dat's guilty of killing dnt 'owman Mr brother is innocent j and 1 (ti<l it been use 1 <1 been taking i oeaine. I done it till and I just ask , for mercy and dat you don't hang [ me." Ho said Brack bogged him not to kii) the woman, and if he had listened to him he would not be where lie is now. Solicitor Timnierman asked Ned to explain the effects of cocaine and this is \\ hat 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 tinything. 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 J Brack tit Newberry was "made up." He said lie told Brack to tell what he did, "so's to keep the blame off'en ' inc." He said his brother had always been a good boy. whereas lie (Ned) had been in trouble often. He said ! K ~ 1 #-v 1.1 !)?..% ?ko< 1?a .CM..I.I ?KU1/4 ' i?t* 11 j 11 j m lu a i 11<it. m v> ?t \ 1111 puiuiu him (Ned) on account of his bad "recommendation." This makes the fourth time lie has been in jail; served on tlie chaingang for breaking in a store; lie and "Young Bridges" robbed the Sligli postolficc and were sent j 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 bogged them not to kill her, but he was scared and did it anyhow. Brack 'Poland's Story. Brack 'Poland testified that he had been away from home but one time before the day when Mrs. Ellisor was killed, lie deniel having anything to I do with the killing of Mrs. Ellisor. Il<1 said he told Sheriff Buford the story at Newberry In the hope of helping to shield his brother, that lie told what he did because his brother I told him to tell it. He admitted telling Capt. Griffith } hat. he held Mrs. Ellisor whiie his rholher hit her in the head with the axe. He said this was not Hie truth, that lie was not holding her when Ned struck her. He hogged Ned not to kill her?told him that if he want j ?>d anything in the house to got it. He was holding her with one hand and pushing his brother away with the other. Ned had hdld of her with Ids left hand and the axe was 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 coming back up the step1! when his brother came out. Ned locked the door and threw the key in the yard. They then loft the house and went toward New Brook land. Subsequent events were detailed and his story as to these was the same as told by Ned. He didn't seem to realize the gravity 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 regardless of what 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. Griflth and L Capt. Roberts, and few of the specta I tosr believed tha t it was anothei I "hatched up" story, concocked for the 1 sole purpose of clearing his owr J skirts of the dastardly crime. 1 IMo.w1..yl ?\ C?*A? *1 IUI 4'l* I \ (f i t After the jury brought In the ver ? diet of guilty the prisoners were tolt 3 to stand and receive the sentence o ? the Court. Almost every man in th< v building rose to get a look at the no r groes, but at the request of Sherif S Corley they quickly resumed thoi t seats. !. Asked if they had anything to sa; - why sentence of death should not b< pronounced, Ned. said: "I ask th< > court to have mercy upon me an< please don't hang me. I am guilty V hut my brother is innocent." When the question was put t< I brack he said; "I ask for the mere; ' of the court, hut I am innocent; m; f brother done it." n Judge DeVore then read the sen I tence of the court: "That the defend 1 ants, Ned and brack Toland, he tak i en from whence they last came (pen! 1 tontiary) and there he kept in safi 8 confinement until Friday May 1 i 1908, when they are to be taken t< - the regular place of execution fo ) Lexington county, there to be hang . ed bv their necks until they nr.e dead 3 between the hours of 10 a. m. and ! 9 p. m." % WITH BRYAN And a Strong Running Mate Will Certainly Win Says SENATOR TILLMAN. 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