The Detroit times., 1913-12-03
STAYS WIFE AS
SHE LIES IN BED
WITH THEIR BABY
After Shooting Woman, As She
Pleads for Life, George Toll
Slashes Her With Knife
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD SON
WITNESS OF TRAGEDY
Slayer Escapes After the Killing
and So Far Has Eluded
the Police

clasped in her arms. Euphonia Toll.
33 years old. pleaded with her
estranged husband. George. aged
about SO. To spare her life when ne
rushed into her apartments at No.
7s5 st. Anuoine-st. to kill her. at $3.50
O'Clock. Tuesday morning.
Her l2-year-old son. George Toll,
,Jr, had lied with her into the bed
room. when the husband burst into
the living room. In the bedroom Mrs.
Toll climbed into little white enam-
eled cot, beside white. fuzzy Teddy
Bear. picked up her. babe, and turned
to the husband with q plea:
Don't kill me, George. for Gods
sake, and the sake Of your baby"
She knew that he had come to Kill.
His answer was q shot from re-
volver. The bullet spared the babe.
but II pierced the mothers breast,
close to the heart. Her 12-year-old
son saw it all, as he tried to barricade
the door against his father.
Mrs. Toll, the babe In her arms.
staggered, and fought her assailant
into the big living room to the east.
over Ben Bronstin's grocery store.
Mrs. Hannah Bronstin. wife OF Ben.
heard a commotion In the rooms
above. She rushed up to investigate.
She saw Mrs. Toll. known to her as
Mrs. Green, battling with Toll, alt
ting on the floor Of the main room,
his left arm supporting her head. In
his right arm was huge butcher
knife.
Mrs. Bronstin, Mortified, saw the
knife descend time and again. 1t
slashed the woman's throat, nearly
severing the head from the body II
slashed the right wrist, almost cut.
ting OF the arm. II slashed the
woman's breast. her abdomen, her
face, her hand.
Mrs. Bronstin fed down the stair.
way. fainting, and cried: Police,
oh God, Police!"
Her husband, Ben Bronstin. heard
her cries. He called police headquar
ters. In few minutes the flying
squadron was on the scene, with De.
tectives Kean and Buhr and others.
Mrs. Bronstin said that the slayer
had fed through the rear door, blood
covered, from head to foot.
As his wife lay gasping out her life
her 12-year-old son. and a roomer IN
the house, George Nico. a youth. cut
lemon In two. They pressed the
lemon to the lips of the dying woman
The solid components OF the lemon
were plastered over the woman's lips
. The half lemon lay beside her body.
Wax" said the police who were
first on the job. He filed her mouth
with wax. To prevent outcries."
The son OF both slayer and victim
born In the old country. was crazed
with grief The baby, held in the
arms OF George Nico, screamed II
terror.
I'VE tried TO help her" said George
Nico. THE lemon, II did no good"
Toll, the slayer, ied through real
door and escaped. He went TO his
room, No. 81 Wilkins-st.. and was
there for nearly 90 minutes, the po
lice learned, changing all OF his
clothes, and making his escape.
| In the meantime. the son OF the
couple, moaning and crying. wa:
seized by detectives. He was only
half conscious. He had witnessed
the homicide. He was crazed by II
Finally, after being piled with ques
tons, he remembered his fathers
rendezvous. He took the flying suad
ron to the place. The man was gone
He had been there nearly 20 minutes
His blood stained clothes had beer
left.
In the st. Antoine-st. house. they
found suit case, packed with Mead
macaroni and garlic. He had gone
prepared for a killing and flight.
Six weeks ago. In the Union depot
Mrs. Toll was found by police. aban
doned by her husband. after an all
night vigil. He had gone there will
her: they had planned to go away
they had quarreled, and he had lef'
her, stating that he would never SCI
her again. She spent the night ir
the matron's room In the depot. Their
she was taken In charge by the police
She went to the st. Antofne-st
place. rented by one Joe Green. Pc
lice declare that she was housekeep
er for Green. that there was no jeal
ousy mixed up in the crime-just the
desire on Tolls part to get rid OF her
The wailing baby, which had wit
messed her mothers death, was coddled
by George Nico for hours. Then II
was taken in a police auto, after al
the neighbor women had refused to
take II. II was removed to the Flor
ence Crittenton home.
George, the l2-year-old son. VIII
probably be taken under the wing oil
the police.