Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-05
NOTES OF THE TRAGEDY
Incidents OF The Horrible Crime
Committed At EastpOrt Yester-
day.
TYLER A DANGEROUS MAN.
Feared BY Fellow Citizens OF The
Village Across The Spa-PrisiOner
OF Quick Temper Says Friends.

The horror of the Eastport tragedy
will long linger in the memory Of
those first on the scene.
After locking the aged victim in the
house to bleed to death, Tyler locked
the house and went in search of the
other victim. No one knew that the old
woman, Tyier's wife was bleeding
from ber horrible wounds for some
time. and when they did the peaceful
residents of Eastport, feared to "gc
against the law" by breaking open the
house.
II was newspaper men and citizens
Of Annapolis who finally broke into the
house and violated the law" and the
horrible sight that met their eyes will
never be forgotten. The blood from
the aged victim was baled from the
floor in basins.
There were two witnesses to the
shooting of Mrs. and MIR. Robinson
the grandson of the murderer, and
Frank Connell, of Eastport. There
was no witness to the attempted muir
der of Mrs Tyler.
The alleged murderer was arrested
on Spa bridge by Officer Samuel G.
Garner, of Eastport, constable of the
Second district. The man Tyler was
walking to town, and probably intend
ed to take a car out of the city, which
was his manifest idea, according to
Officer Garner. Upon capturing Tyler,
Officer Garner Immediately took from
him the pistol with which he had done
the shooting. 1t contained three
cracked bullets and two had been ex-
ploded. After firing the two shots
at his daughter and her husband,
Tyler evidently attempted to dis
charge the whole barrel, but the other
three failed to explode.
Tyler made no resistance when ar
rested by Officer Samuel G.. Garner,
but told the officer he would go with
MIN, but anyone else would have to
carry him. Officer Garner, who is
carpenter by trade, and knew Tyler,
with whom he had worked, did not
fear his man, and did not handcuf
him, but had the officer known at the
time of the horrible assault made by
Tyler on his wife, who died last
night in the Emergency Hospital,
the officer would have handcuffed
Tyler. However, he took the man
before Justice Davis, who committed
Tyler to jail on the charge of as
sault. and Tyler was locked up for
the night.
In the excitement, officer Garner,
who has been recently appointed,
was cool, calm and collected, and his
first thought was to arrest his man,
which he did, rather than look after
the victims of the assault.
aOfficer Garner is being congratulated
on his quick action in the matter.
Tyler is about 62 years old, car
penter by trade. and at one time
worked at the Naval Acatemy, and
was employed on the building of Spa
creek bridge. He is said to be man
of quick temper, hot-headed, easily
provoked to anger and was feared
by the people of Eastport, who kept
shy of him" at all times.
Tyler cut his wife's head and face
from left to right. imbedding the
hatchet above the left eye and causing
the cut to be downward at the side OF
the nose over the right cheek.
The news of the shooting of the
Robinsons was first taken to Officer
Garner by Horace Williams, an en-
ploye of Mr.. w. H. Burns, who had