Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-06
A BRUTE KILLS
ANOTHER WOMAN.
Negro In Jail Here Charged With
Murder And Ravishing Of
Miss Dora Ebert.
DENIES THE CRIME.
Archie Isaacs Asserts Crime In
Lonely Railway Cut Was
Done BY Two Colored
Soldiers.
Soldiers.

Charged with horrible crime.
which 1t now seems ikcl. viii cen
ter around evidence similar TO that
in The famous Brandon murder Of las
year Archie lsaacs, negro. is N thu
Anne Arundel jail he~e sgouuy pro
testing his own iunocoace and laying
he killing and rayishns of Miss p.a.
III ert, OF PatuNg.., upon two negro
soldiers who, re says he saw a. lck
the ,,oHan and from whom he asserts
he attempted to rescue her
The crime occurred in deco cat
az desolatc and lonely spot along
the Pennsylvania Railroad bordering
the Camp Meade can oaWoat !e. wuen
2.30 and $50 yesterday aGe--.on
Miss Ebert was attacked as she was
walking along the track toward her
home, having started from Odenton
about = o'clock. She was horribly
beaten about the head and face with
some blunt instrument which prob
ably ended her struggles to ward off
her assailant.
That the evidence of negro or white
skin torn from the face or neck Of her
nails of the murdered woman. which
played so important part in the
Brandon murder will figure in the
present case seems likely Although
Miss Ebert wore cotton gloves. the fin
ger tips of these were badly torn and
her nails were exposed. The nails are
bloody and under them is a deposit
which should readily yield its story
under microscopes examination.
The body was brought to Anuapo-
lis this morning by Chief OF Police
Frank Pritchet, of the Odenton force.
and Police Justice Watts, OF the same
place. 1t was carried to the Taylor
undertaking establishment ON East
street, where an autopsy will be per-
formed this afternoon by DR.. w. b.
Carr. coroner's physician of Washing
ton, and DR.. Walton II. Hopkins,
County Health officer for Anne
Arundel County. These are the two
physicians who, with DR.. J. c. Joyce,
of Annapolis, performed the Brandon
autopsy.
The accused negro, who was taken
into custody almost as soon as he had
told his story and his track repairing
tools, showing blood marks had been
discovered. first told of seeing the
woman come down the track and the
two negro soldiers jump down the
bank and attack her. He said he tried
to drive them off but they beat him
and took his shoes away from him.
Since his arrest he has told several
conflicting stories and still continues
to vary his yarn with each repetition.
Investigation of the scene of the crime
fails to show that any one climbed or
slid down the embankment into the
cut where the crime was committed at
| the point indicated by Isaacs.
When the negro reported the crime
a squad of military police were near
| by and at the request Of Justice Watts
| they at once proceeded down the
track and finding the woman sent her
at once to the Camp Meade hospital,
/ where an examination showed she was
| dead. Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
! Ebert, were at once notified but the
body was kept at the hospital until
| this morning, when it was sent TO
! Annapolis.
Pritchet, the Police Chief at Oden-
ton, kept the prisoner in charge until
! late last night and all efforts of State s
Attorney Green and Sheriff Bells 10
| get in touch with him failed The
officers, however stayed up and ex-
pected his arrival with his prisoner
at the Jail until late at night but fail
/ ed to receive any word from him or
any official report Of the crime. II
developed this morning that Pritchet,
feeling that he needed TO stay about
| the scene and collect evidence this
| morning, took the accused negro 10
! Academy Junction and there turned
him over to the conductor of the car
reaching Annapolis about o'clock.
: The conductor after putting his car
away turned the negro over to the
police at the police station on Glouces-
ter street where he was kept until
this morning and then turned over To
the county authorities who lodged him
in jail.