Evening journal., 1899-09-18
TOLSON EELp FOR COURT.
coLoRED ALLEGEo' CHILD MUIR
DERER HAD a HEARING.

DERER HAD a NEARING.
MUCH DAMAGING EVIDENCE WAS
PRODUCED AND MAGIsTRATEl
MEDILL, OF NEWARK. PLACES
THE CASE BEFORE THE GRAND
JURY.
Thomas Tolson, colored, OF Newark,
who is alleged to have murdered
his 5-year-old step-daughter, some
weeks ago, was given hearing before
Magistrate Medill. at Newark, on Sat
urday
Very damaging circumstantial evil
dence was produced, and the prisoner
was committed without bail to await
the action OF the grand jury.
The CHILD was Tolson's step-daugh-
ter. and an illegitimate one of his
wifes. who was Mary Bowman. Ever
since the child's birth 1t Is alleged Tol-
son has been very brutal and abusive
in his treatment toward IT,
On the day that the supposed muir
der was committed, Tolson took his
own child and step-daughter, with
their dinners. to the home of Mrs. An
ME Smith, who lived across the street,
asking her to keep them until he re-
/ turned from work. This happened
about o'clock in the morning, About
8 o'clock ne came back and got the
children. and the dinner he had pre-
pared for them, and took them to his
own home, which was directly oppo-
site to the one occupied by Mrs. Smith.
At IL o'clock he brought them back,
saying that he had given them their
dinner, In a short time he went back
and got the children again, taking
them back to his own home.
i Tolson stayed there for some time,
and then went to the home Of Thomas
Lane, on whose porch he sat, and re-
moved his right shoe and stocking,
, which were wet. He then wrung the
water from his stocking, and replaced
them. Lane asked him why he was
J not at work, and was told by Tolson
that he had lost Sarah, his STEP
daughter, and was searching for her
He told Mrs. Smith the same tale. In
the meantime he had seen Norris Dick.
erson, and telling him that he had LOST
the child, asked him to work for him
! that day on the farm, where he Wal
employed near Newark.
d From Lanes place he went to the
4 home OF Mrs. Maria Pennington Sh,
asked him why he was not at work
and was told that he was home for ;
q purpose. After a short conversation
4 with her, he told her that the chilli
( was lost, and was advised by her I,
. search Boogie run. He left her, bu
A returned In a very short time and toll
n her that he had searched the creek, bu
n that his efforts to find the child wer
n Intellectual. She then directed him L
> the quarry hole, from which he return
70 ed shortly, with the same story. tha
4 he could not find the child He staye
there until late In the afternoon, whei
Mrs. Pennington said to him that h
knew where the child was, and, as
D was becoming dark, he had better z
and get It. He then went out, but re
a turned in a few minutes, bearing tn
y dead child in his arms.
y He said that he had found Il in Boo
gle run.
y The place that Tolson alleged b
y y found the child, was at a point nc
q twenty-five yards from his own hous
and where the water was no more tha
seven inches deep, nor three feet fro
bank 10 bank.
The doctor who made the post-moi
TEN examination says that the chill
E had been put in the water alive. an
was held under until drowned, as
was impossible for the child TO "a
into the creek accidentally, becau,
the banks were flush with the strear
and that even il the child did fan
accidentally, it would be impossible I,
l IL to drown.
slight confusion was found on Il
0 baby's head, which loolsed as II II h,
- been struck, and therefore have pr
vented any struggle on the part OF I
las child
On an investigation II was prov,
that it would be impossible for O
4 person TO hold another under 4
j water at this point without placing O
Ter, foot in the water. Tolson had one fc
er- wet when he went to Lanes.
lis, Former Congressman l.. Irving Ha
ned dy and Charles Evans, both of Ne
+, i. ark, Delaware, are the defendant's. ;
Nn- torneys, but the state has much me
I'M damaging evidence against him whi
res;1 cannot be disclosed at this time.
State Detective Bernard J. Mcy
attended the hearing OF Tolson tod
after which he brought the prisoner
fed this city, arriving here at about
the O'Clock.
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