The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-09-07
AN ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND
CRIMINAL ASSAULT.

| The Robesonian.
Wakened by the hand of a man
upon her at midnight Saturday
night in her home near Mcdonald,
MRS. j. G. Tolar called her hus-
Dand, received no response save a
Sruff Hush" from the strange man,
screamed, and heard in the
darkness the intruder jump through
a window, hastily rose and lighted
lamp-and found her husband
who was on another bed in the
same room with his 3-year-old
daughter, lying unconscious in a
pool of his own blood. Mr.. Tolar
was lying with his head to the foot
OF the bed, which was near the
window through which the would
De murderer made his entrance. and
MS head had been crushed in by a
Dlow with an iron plow bar. The
intruder then deposited the piece of
IRON at the foot of the bed where il
was left when he made his flight,
and made his way to the bed occu-
paed by Mrs. Tolar and her IS
llionths-'old baby. That robbery
was not the purpose seems to be
evidenced by the fact that in a
pocket of Mr.. Tolar's overalls, up
OF which the deadly piece of iron
was deposited, was found more than
$1OO.
Mrs. Tolar at first thought that
her husband had been cut to pieces.
She screamed for help while minis
terlng to her husband as best she
could. Tolar, in a semi-conscious
condition, staggered to his feet and
10 the Fireplace, where he fell with
LIS head upon the hearth; and
there he lay. After doing all she
could and being unable to summon
ald by her screams, Mrs. Tolar took
ner baby upon one arm, a pistol in
her hand, and with her 3-year-old
tot in front went half a mile to
the home of a neighbor, Mr. Kelly
lass, where she implored aid for
her husband. Mr.. Bass and Messrs
John Lamb and Val Vaulk went at
once I" the TciaY hcmn and found
Mr.. Tolar as Mrs. Tolar had left
MIN. They did not know what to
q" and each was AFRAID to either go
Tor other help or stay alone, so the
three of them left the wounded man
alone and went to the home of Mr.
}. Edgar Price, about half a mile
away. Mr.. Colon Price returned
with them and they found that
Mr. Tolar had crawled into the
nall. He tried to get up and it
TOOK the four men to hold him for
a while. Mr.. Price went to Fair
mont and returned about 4 o'clock
with DR.. J. P. Brown. About one
o'clock yesterday afternoon Mr.. To-
lar was brought to the Thompson
hospital here and the pressure on
his brain was relieved by taking out
some pieces OF bone on the left side |
OF the head, just above the left
hn
sciousness until this morning,
when he recognized his brother.
Mr.. T. R.. Tolar, and showed other /
signs OF being conscious. His con-
cltlon is considered much more |
hopeful, but his recovery is still |
very doubtful.
The attempt at murder and GRIM |
lnal assault seems to have been |
minutely planned. The pieces of
iron with which Mr.. Tolar was
struck had been lying on the porch !
OF barn across the road from the |
mousse for months. The window !
through which entrance was effect
ed Is about feet from the ground |!
and was open. Mrs. Tolar sug-
gested to Mr.. Tolar to close the |
window before he lay down about |
II O'Clock, but he thought it was
TOO hot, and he lay with his head |
TO the window and the foot of the !
bed. There are signs of fingernail
scratches on the window ledge and !
there are several tracks beneath the !
WINDOW, some of them made by a |
man in stocking feet or bare
rooted. This seems to indicate that
more than one person was involved
In the crime. Mr.. and Mrs. Tolar
were up pretty much all night be-
nf cio
slept soundly. When the murderer
entered the window he was within
three feet Of Mr.. Tolars head. He
stood directly over his victim and
delivered a terrific blow on the left
SIDE OF his head. When Mrs. To-
lar was wakened she felt a. slick can
on the mans head but could not
see whether he was white or black.
though she is sure from his odor
that he was negro. He told her
10 hush when she called her hus-
Dand. but when she began to scream
he became frightened and fled
through the window. Yesterday
large crowds gathered at the Tolar
home and feeling ran high. Two
negroes. T. Lyon and Jim Suggs,
were arrested yesterday afternoon
and brought to Jail. There is no
evidence as yet directly connecting
elther OF them with the crime, but
Suggs had blood on his pants. An
other negro who is wanted. John
Douglas, alias Wesley, escaped.
Mr.. Tolar has been operating
saw-mill for his brother, Mr. #. r.
Tolar, Of Immberton. near his
nome, which is the old Edgar Price
place. The nearest neighbors are
negroes, less than a quarter of a
mile away.
Another negro, Ed Martin, was
arrested this morning and search
Is being made for Jim Crawford
and Wesley, members of a party
that was together Saturday night.