TAXI DRIVER KILLED,
THREE MEN IX JAIL.
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rhe running board. He knocked the
boy across the head. Gappins grabbed
the boy. Fox hit him three or
four times, and then Gappins snatchad
him out of the car. Fox run
around the car and Gappins was holding
both of his hands. Fox had his
knife in his hand and he stabbed him
in the breast. He held it in the breast
and worked it around. The boy was
begging him not to kill him and said
he would not tell. Gappins turned
loose his hand and grabbed his throat
and. threw him down on the ground.
Fox stabbed him three or four times.
Fox said he would cut his damned
heart out of him and Gappins said
that is alright. I have got his money.
"They told me to get out and help
them to put him in the car. I got out
and they just picked him up and threw
him in the car. They got in the front
of the car and made me get in the
hack, and turned around and come towards
Leesville, S. C. They drove
own the road some distance, I don't
know how far, into the woods. They
stopped the car and took him out and
carried him into the woods. I told
them that I could not, and they got
out and one of them hit me in the side
and said "get out of the way, you are
not worth a damn." They took him
ut and carried him down into the
woods themselves. They were not
gone but a little bit. They come back
and got in the car and told me that
if I ever told or mentioned anything
they would do me the same way. We
come on tnis way v towards Augusta/.
I think it must have been about 2:00
'clock. I think the boy looked at his
clock. The boy had said it was 2:00
o'clock and time for us all to go home.
"We got to Augusta about 3 o'clock.
We broke down about 8 o'clock and
went on down to where the chaingang
was working. They told me to
ask if we could get a tire at the next
station, they said they did not think
so but said if I would phone back to
Augusta I might have it sent out.
Then they said I might get it at
Waynesboro.
"We all went to the top of the hill
th see if I could get the tire and to
see if I could wire for some money.
I found I could not get either. They
told me to stay there and ger the first
car that came along and that if I did
not get one to walk to Waynesboro,
and to wire for money and if I got
the money to wait there at the depot
for them, and they told me that if I
toWanything that they would give me
the same thing they had given the
loy.
"I stayed there some minutes and
a man ami a lady come along and ther
T toM ttipm to toli a rhaincanc cuard
ty come up there; I wanted to see
lim. I first asked them to take me to
Waynesboro. They told me they could
ot, they thought. We talked a min te
or two. I told him about the
trouble and he went and called for the
sheriff to come, he come back and I
went to the work place and stayed until
the sheriff coue, except he and I
got the car and brought it to the work
place. The number was taken off the
car while it was broke down and
thrown in the bushes they stated, ana
without the number the officers could
ot trace the car. \
Body of Murdered Man Recovered.
With a wide jagged wound over the
heart and punctures in the abdomen
and other parts, the body of William
Brazell, 19-year-Oid taxicao qriver 01
Columbia, was found near the public
highway in a chump of bushes three
miles east of Leesville, Lexington
county, early Tuesday morning by
a party of searciiers, in which were
Sheriff J. T. Plunkett, of Richmond
oounty, Ga., Sheriff Ruff, of Lexington
county, and Sheriff T. Alex Heise, of
Richland county.
The body was brought to Columbia
immediately and taken to local undertaking
establishment where it was
prepared for burial from the home
o: the.youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. E. Brazell, Calhoun street, Pine
hurst, Columbia.
Three men?F. J. Kirby, C. 0. Fox
and Jesse Gappins, all of Columbia?
-a *rp heinc- held as implicated in the
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murder. According to an alleged confession
made to Sheriff Plunkitt in the
Augusta, Ga., jail by F. J. Kirby,
Fox and Gappins did the actual killing,
the latter holding Brazell and the
former stabbing '.he youth with a
pocket knife. The three rented the
car driven by Brazell to take a trip
into Lexingtno county, according to
the alleged confession, and the killing
took place near Leesville.
Sheriff Plunkett brought Kirby with
him Tuesday from Augusta to
identify the spot where the body of
Eraze 11 was thrown. He was joined by
Sheriffs Ruff and Heise and a number
?f people in automobiles. Kirby, said
Sheriff Heise, could not exactly identify'the
spot, ani went beyond where
the body was found about a mile. It
was finally located by buzzards circulating
over it in the air.
Sheriff Heise said that the body was
badly hacked. Five stabs were over the
heart, he stated, and it looked as if a
knife had been ground'around in the
wounds to enlarge them. A place as
big as a man's fist was gashed out.
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he said. There were a number of
stabs in the abdomen and the hands
were lacerated.
Sheriff Plunkett told Sheriff Heise
that in his many years experience he
had never seen such a brutal murder.
There was considerable feeling in
Lexington county about the murder
and there was much talk that if Cox
and Gappins were brought to the
county jail in Lexington that there
migth be attempts at lynching.
Kirby was incarcerated in :he Lexington
county jail Tuesday and
Sheriff Plunkett and Sheriff Ruff went
back to Augusta to" get Cox and Gappins.
It is believed that they will be
brought by a circuitous route to Columbia
and lodged in the state per
ltenuary ior sait- ^1115.
Sheriff Plunkett said that Cox ard
Cappins had confessed to him, implicating
themselves with the killing, according
to a statement by Sheriff
Heise.
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W. J. Bryan Violates Speed Laws.
Wililam Jennings Bryan recently delivered
a lecture at Delavan, Wis., and
was making a fast automobile jump
to Waukegan, a CVcago suburb, where
a chatauqua audience awaited him.
His driver had been doing a little better
than 50 miles an hour when he
slowed down for a curve at Antioch
end made the acquaintance of Marshal
J. B. Congdon.
"Where are you going, and who are
you anyway?" was the introduction.
"I'm going to Waukegan. I'm William
Jennings Bryan, and I must deliver
a lecture in Waukegan in just a
few minutes.'
"Live in Waukcgan'.' What's you'
business?" As the little note book
appeared.
"I am a writer on subjects on political
economy. I've been in politics
41 years. I have been a candidate for
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