Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-29
ISAACS TO HANG
FOR GIRL MURDER.
Slayer Of Dora Eberts Convicted
This Afternoon-Jury Out
Four Minutes.
HER FATHER TESTIFIES.
Aged Parent Tells Of Daughters
Attention To Household
Duties Just Before She
Was Done To Death.
Was Done To Death

Wv DIS DOllC " 1ICc1lAA.
Archie Isaacs, the self-confessed
murderer OF Miss Dora Eberts, was
this afternoon sentenced to pay the
extreme penalty for his crime. After
the morning had been occupied with
the taking of testimony, the summing
up by counsel for the prosecution and
defense was begun Immediately after
recess, and the case was given to the
jury at 2.26 Just four minutes later
the verdict of murder in the first de-
gree without recommendation for
mercy was brought in, and sentence
was at once passed by Judge Robert
Moss, who, with Judge William Henry
Forsythe, had presided during the
trial
John S. Eberts, father of the muir
dered woman in the Circuit Court
room this morning told the story of
his daughters attention to the SIM
pie homely duties about their little
farm house near Portland, just prior
TO Dora Eberts departure for the post
office on the afternoon of April 5th,
for the trip which a short time after
ended in her brutal murder by Archie
Isaacs, the negro who faces the gal
lows for the crime. In hating man
ner with, however, little evidence of
the deep feelings which must have
racked him as he sat almost within
reach of the negro who has confessed
the unprovoked killing of his daugh
ter the old man identified the two
pocketbooks, and the other personal
belongings and bits of personal adorn-
ment found on the blood-stained sand
and gravel beside his daughters
mutilated body. He told how she had,
after preparing his dinner, and clear
ing up the dishes, left to go to Patux-
ent Station there to get an express
package sent by another daughter in
the West. At the conclusion of his
testimony in chief the defense de-
clined to ask him any questions.
The trial of Isaacs was taken up
first thing with the opening of court,
his counsel, Messrs. James NJ. Munroe
and w Hallam Claude, electing TO try
their case before jury. Little time
was lost in the selection of the twelve
men to try the case Neither de-
1tISG VI prosecution uSCu d SillSl6
challenge, and only 13 talismen were
called. One. William f. Jones, said
he had an opinion on the guilt or
innocense of the accused, and was ex-
cused by the court. The jurors drawn
were: Charles G. Ridout, John An
derson, Sedwick Cromwell of r., Ed
mond l.. Hartge, Hiram S. Kelly,
George Clancy, Joseph Lauer. Oscar
Grimes, John Aul, Emil Z. Hartge,
Charles NJ. Green and Percy Wells.
Isaacs, brought into court just be-
fore the trial started, manifested keen
interest in everything that went on
AS the talismen were called he look
ed each one over carefully, and listen
ed closely as they were examined by
the Court and lawyers as to their
qualifications TO sit in the case.
After the jurors had been sworn and
the indictment charging him with the
murder had been read the negro was
taken from the prisoners dock and al
lowed to take a seat at the trial table
beside his lawyers. AS the witnesses
were called in turn during the morn
ing session, and each added a link
to the chain of evidence the State is
weaving about him, Isaacs showed
signs of decided nervousness. He
fidgited about in his chair and con-
stantly inter-linked his fingers.
The indictment of the negro simply
charges him with the murder of Miss
Eberts, but does not charge any
other crime was committed against
her After the reading of the indict-
ment, the prosecutions case was set
before the jury by States Attorney
Nicholas H. Green in an opening
statement. Mr.. Green branded the
crime as one of the most horrible in
the history of Anne Arundel County
He told of Isaacs' first connection with
the case. of his conflicting stories as
to seeing Miss Eberts attacked by two
colored soldiers and trying to rescue
her, and finally of the mans confess
sion of the crime to Headquarters De-
tectives Dougherty and Hogan after
Isaacs had been lodged in the Anne
Arundel jail. In conclusion, he stated
that if the State proved the conten-
tions made he would ask for a YER
dict of murder in the first degree with
ont recommendation for mercy.
Lieutenant z. S. Bagg, of Camp
Meade, told of coming upon the body
with party of officers returning from
the rifle range. and of the arrival a
few moments later of others from
0denton who had come TO the scene of
the crime following Isaacs having re-
ported it to them Justice of the Peace
John A. Watts. Pennsylvania Railroad
track foreman Edward King. Messrs.
Ernest E Anderson, Thomas Fairall,
John Clancy, Joseph Walker and Eden
Watts told of the negro's reporting
the crime to them. of his excited con-
dition, how he had no shoes on and