Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-04-29
'ARGE REWARD OFFERED
FOR TYDINGS' SLAYER

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EN- to death Those who adhere 70
this theory think ii likely that only
one person Was concerned ii the act
II is fact that the tracks of two
persons could be seen plainly on the.
ground along the course taken By Mr.
Tydings and the murderer Some think
that he was knocked down in the road
and carried To the point where bis
body was found. The tracks would In
This case be those of the two men
who were carrying him. II is as
sumed that the authorities made the
most use possible of the evidence to
be derived from the tracks
At any rate. II III clear that Mr.
Tydings was not dead or even un-
conscious when he was first In the
thicket He made desperate fight
for his life, and the criminal hit him
again and again, probably ais long as
there was the slightest Indication of
life III knocked unconscious on the
road he undoubtedly regained his
senses lii the thicket but the proba-
bility Is that he was first hit after
having walked To the thicket at the
instance Of the criminal
Not only was the back of the head
crushed from behind both ears, but
the bones In the upper part Of the
neck were broken. and the skin mash
ed to pulp The fingers Of one hand
we're also mangled, where Mr. Tyd-
ings had evidently thrown his hand
back OF his head HI an effort TO ward
or the blows The branches of the
pine trees above him, hanging low to
the ground, were torn, where they had
been hit as the rock was raised again
and again to descend on the head of
the murdered man Beneath his face.
the ground was hallowed out. where
he had evidently struggled to release
himself during the attack.
Joseph II. Brennan. owner of the
sand bank where Elder Tydings was
and also storekeeper in
The vicinity, Is one of those. who knew /
Mr.. Tydings habit of carrying money
and that he had a. considerable sum
IN the day Of the murder Mr. Tyd /
ngs had made purchase from his /
store that afternoon The amount was
81. 46, and he had offered d fiye dollar
bill At that time, he displayed roll #
81 1T least fifteen or twenty bills. MIR /
8renan said. and he thinks they we're I
Eli Of as large or larger denomination
han the five dollar bill he offered He I
was known 10 try 70 keep HIS money /
n as large bills as possible, and spend 4
ne small ones first Mr. Brennan said /
nat often when he had accumulated |
,mall ones, he would get them changed I
nto larger bills These facts were t
undoubtedly known to his associates,
ind one Of more of them deliberately I
sid the plan to follow him and take
Ifs life
Every bit of money was taken from 1
he dead man. but not another thing,
Shich might lead 10 the identity oil
he criminal. Still, it is believed that
,ome nisstep has been made or will
Ii made. aud Ii the matter Ii followed
ii with energy and skill the criminal
s,ill be discovered This the people
# the section and whole county are
The high character Of
he deceased and all the circum-
.tanccs of the crime, have shocked and 4
outraged the community more than
my crime of the generation. with the
Jingle exception of the murder Of /
drs. Lottie May Brandon in Annapolis
almost two years ago.
The funeral Of Mr. Tydings took
lace from his late residence yester
Law afternoon. the interment Icing In /
he burying ground on the farm of his
.unf, Mrs. Laura Tydings, who lived +
ust across the road from the deceased
rhe services were conducted BY Rev.
! A. Lambert. of Asbury Southern
dethodist church. and the pallbearers
we're Harry Anderson Harold f West,
richard Duyall Everett Warren and
sarroll Brice