Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

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MURDERED AGED WOMAN !;
Captured and Confessed the Crime
Lynching Narrowly Averted.
Columbia, S. c., Feb. 27.-The
two trafnps who murdered aged Mrs
p. w. Ellison yesterday, near Colum-
bia, by sinking an axe into herskull
as she sat alone in her country home,
were captured twenty-one miles
north Of Columbia last night by
Conductor Mccain, of the G. N. &c l..
road, whose train the tramps board
ed going towards Newberry. She
riff Buford was aboard and took
charge of them and landed them in
the Newberry Jail, handcuffed from
the baggage car,
The prisoners were fully identified
this morning. One of them confess
ed. They were brought here this
morning for safe keeping in the PEN
itentiary.
A mob OF two hundred heavily
armed men gathered at the depot be-
fore they came in and a lynching
was averted by the warning given
the Governor by Superintendent Hor-
ton OF the road, on whose advice the
train was stopped mile out Of
town, where the police, sheriff's dep
uties and penitentiary guards, all
well-armed, met the train and hus-
tied the prisoners to the peniten-
tfary few blocks away.
Half the mob had caught on to
this move and were at the stopping
place. but made no demonstration in
the face of SO great odds. The mob
moved OH toward the penitentiary,
but later dispersed.
After the prisoners were landed In
the penitentiary Governor Ansel or
dered Capt. Allen, OF the Ricnland
Volunteers, to hold his company in
readiness for any possible outbreak.
Some Details OF the Case.
Brack Toland admits that he was
near by when the murder was COM
mitted. He says that his brother
was not present and that another ne
gro, whose name he does not know,
was the negro who did the killing
Mrs. Ellison, while alone in her
home, near Cayce, across the river
from Lexington, was brutally and
foully done to death, her body being
thrown into the clothes basket, where
1t was found several hours later by
her husband, on his return from
town. The aged woman had been
killed without struggle, being hit
in the head with her husbands axe.
Brack Toland is the younger of
the two brothers under arrest. He
tells story which bears some of the
marks of truth, and in some points
is open to suspicion. His home Is in
Prosperity, Newberry county, He
says that he came down yesterday
morning to Cayce, and in the depot
there he met strange negro, who
like himself, was broke. This strange
negro told him he knew they could
get some money, in little house
where all the family had gone out,
and he led the way to the little home
OF the Ellisors, near the railroad
track He told Brack to wait on the
outside and give the alarm IL any
one approached, while the strange
negro went inside. Within less than
a half hour, perhaps fifteen minutes.
Breck said the strange negro came
out and reported that he had killed
the "old woman, bringing with him
coat, shotgun, a razor and a wo-
mans jacket. The coat and razor,
with some shells, were given to
Brack, while the strange negro kept
only the woman's jacket. The two
walked up the railroad track for
some distance, and then took off
across the field, walking then in each
Others tracks. They entered the
town Of Brookland, the name of
which Brack did not profess to know,
and there they sold the gun for one
dollar, which amount was divided
between them. They crossed the toll
bridge In company, and when they
reached the Columbia side, separated
for the first time since the CHASTITY
tragedy. Brack asserts that he walk .
ed up Gervais street to the Coium-
bia, NeWberry and Laurens station,
where he met his elder brother. and
the two of them boarded the c., N.
e LIZ train, which they left at Irmo,
and went across the country to the
Columbia and Greenville road where
they boarded the train for Newberry.
They were arrested at Newberry last
night by Sheriff Buford. As he told
the story, Brack Toland still wore
the coat OF old man Ellison, which
had been taken from the house In
which the horrible murder had been
enacted, and il the coat could only
speak 1t might save the youthful ne
gro's life orit might send him to the
galloWs.
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