Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-06-14
KIRBY TELLS OF THE KILLING
or BrnZcIl--Scntcnccu to Die In the
Electric Chair Juno 10th.


zcll, for whom an effort has been
made to secure Il commutation, to lie
Imprisonment, is just as guilty OF
the crime as either FOX or Kirby, was
at the death house Wednesday after
noon by S. j. Kirby, the oldcs. Of the
THO. Kirby sent for reporter and
asked that his statement be pub
lishcd. Through the bars Of the cell
he told again the details of the crime
and joined in a rehearsal OF the de-
tails. Through the corridors Of the
death house rang .he arguments be-
tween prisoners as to their parts in
the crimc. Gappins charged that
Kirby and Fox had made false state
mcnts as to him, and "if the truth
were known I'd not go to the chair
he declared.
Recently Gappins made a state
mcnt to the press to the effect that
he did not have Il part in the actual
killing Of Brazcllc, and Oh the
strength Of this an effort has been
mu.c the sentence of Gappins to life
imprisonment. To a representative
OF the press yesterday afternoon kir-
r. by and FOX denied this, and told the
ErucSomo story Of the killing, i'm
plicating all three. The reporter was
accompanied to tho death house by
Col. \. X. Sanders, superintendent Of
the peni;cntiary, as frequently he
was called on to hear what the priS
cncrS swore was the truth.
II hope to meet God with the truth
OF my lips" Kirby began his recital
70 the reporter through the double
bars Of his cell. 1--WE came uptown
on the night OF August 7th. Gap
pins told me to go up and sec Big
Rill,' Il taxi driver, and | went to
soc him twice, but his car was burned
up. We went to the Gospel Mission
and then went up Assembly street;
came down Main street, and passed
big red car. Gappins said, That S
the kind Of car we wart,' but we went
en- to Lady street and then found
some white boys who drive oars. !
had never seen tho Rrazcll boy be-
fore that night. We all got in and
went to Leesvillc, and stopped sew
cral times on the way. We got gas
:" Icosv''r 0~' ..Wr back 10 njij
near LoNt8lon @unNiu loG ,ay etf
sol out Of tno ea Gopn,ns saiA he
would 10, VII the bo> lie X SO FOX
TIC Nlac&- iuaN, au. had s..-.. i. 10
Gappins. Fox hit the BraZell boy in
the head and Gappins caught him.
The black Jack broke all to pieces"
Kirby then went into details Of
how the Brazell boy was stabbed to
death and the part all three ha n
the crime. "I'ox and Gappins go nut
Of the car with the Brazcll bo.
the left hand side" Kirby stated. 81
had hold Of the BraZcll boy and so
did Gappins. Fox stuck the knife in
him. G&ppins threw Brazcll down
and took money and cigarettes out Of
his pocket. Then GappinS turned the
car around and he and FOX put the
body Of Erazcll into the car
At this point some words were
rasscd between cells. "DO you want
me to tell about the $3.50 for the
black -jack?" Kirby shouted across
the death house to Gappins, and the
reply came back, Tell it all: you've
got to answer to God for this
Kirby then told OF the journey 10
Augusta, after the Brazcll boys body
was hid. lie told Of the breakdown
OF. the car at Augusta, and OF their
proceeding thence on foot to sta
tion near Augusta, and Of his plan to
go to still another station to wire
FoX's father for money. "By some
means | didn't do this" he declared
I'VE passed a chain-ganG. after lca"-
ing Augusta, and saw Mr.. Roberts
a road engineer. After leaving tho
little railway station went back to
Mr, Roberts, and told him OF the
thing We had done during the night
Mir. Roberts phoucd for the shcril
ana took me to the chain-Hung camp
After dinner there we went for The
car and waited for the sheriff. Iic
and the sheriff went after Fox and