Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-04
MURDEROUS ATTACKS
Albert Tyler Uses Hatchet And
Pistol in Apparent Attempt
To Exterminate
Family
VICTIMS In HOSPITAL.
William Robinson, Who Is Not Ex-
pected To Live, And His Wife,
Suffer From Bullet Wounds.

Three brutal, and to all appearance:
totally unprovoked murders were at
| tempted at Eastport shortly before
noon today when, after driving 8
hatchet into the side of his wife's
head, Capt. Albert Tyler drove to the
home of his son-in-law and daughter
and there shot both of them.
That the son-in-law, William Robin.
son, or the wife, Mrs. Catherine
Tyler, will recover is not considered
possible, while the wound of the
daughter, Vivian Tyler-Robinson, is
also thought TO be a fatal one. The
attempt to murder most of the mem
bers of his family which Tyler made
was the outgrowtb of family quarrel
of several days standing about which
no one seems to know very much.
Tyler bears the reputation of be-
ing hard drinking man and had
been drunk for some days. His wife
several days ago was forced to leave
their home at Sixth street and Sew
ern avenue and go to the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. Robinson,
where she had been staying until
this morning.
During the morning her grandson,
John Tyler, youth of about fourteen
years of age, drove to her husbands s
home at her request, as she wanted to
get some personal effects. The
youth says that after his grandmother
had been in the house for some time,
while he waited outside in the buggy,
his grandfather ran out the door and
drove the blade of hatchet which he
brought out of the house with him,
into the ground just outside the door.
He then locked the house up and
told the boy to drive him to his SON
in-law and daughters house. AS he
walked in the door of his daughters
home, Mrs. Robinson said "Hello, 4"
but got no reply other than a .32-cal-
ibre bullet in her head. When her
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him and shot him in the stomach,
and then used the butt of his pistol
to beat both of them off and break
away. He then walked off in an
unconcerned manner, but the alarm
was quickly spread by neighbors. and
the wouldbe murderer was overhaul
ed and taken into custody by Police
man Greene Garner as he started
across the bridge between Annapolis
and Easport.
In the excitement of the shooting
which was witnessed by the grandson,
who Immediately gave the alarm, the
boys account of his grandmother
having been locked in the other
house was overlooked or not given
proper consideration until neighbors
near the Tyler home heard groans and
means issuing from an upstairs room.
Some time was lost before anyone
would take the initiative, but when
the dwelling was broken into the poor
old woman was found lying in pool
of blood with the front of her head
and face practically hacked to pieces.
Doctors John Russell and Edward
Joyce, who had been summoned to the
Robinson home, were at once gotten
to the Tyler residence and did what
they could for the injured wife of
the murderous man.
AS soon as their wounds had been
dressed, Robinson and his wife were
hurried to Annapolis and taken to
the Emergency Hospital, where they
now are. Of the three the son-in-
law is nearer deaths door and most
likely to die.
Captain Tyler, who made no resis-
tance when arrested, is in the cour-
ty Jail waiting the outcome of his
victims injuries. The affair stirred
not only the whole of Eastport, but
created much excitement throughout
Annapolis.