Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-03-02
GOVERNOR TO ASSIGN
DATE FOR EXECUTION

Robert Robinson eolorcd mus
kans for the murder of James Elder
fydings. !. prominent farmer Of the
Third district OF Anne Arandel coun
IL. I, cr.me tlat was committed nearly
i've years ago. but DELAY in finally all
Judging which Was eecasionei ny dila
toriness III getting the record before
The appellate court
The prisoners fate was sealed by i
decision OF the Court OF Appeals an
nounced today. delivered by Judg
l'rner. and in which the entire Court
sconcurred, affirming the sentence of
death imposed III the Criminal Courl
OF Baltimore city before which tri
hnnal The case Went 10 trial after 10
ing removed from the jurisdiction u
the Circnii Court for Anne Arundel
county The ease was tried before
Judges Heulsler. Bobier and Dawkins.
the negro having waived jury trial
Based ON Exceptions
The action 70 secure new trial
VAS based upon exceptions taken az To
tie aamissibility of evidence al the
trial OF the case particularly con
ceruing the confession and other
statements made by the negro, and
which went into the record. The
Court of Appeals after passing upon
tile, various exceptions. says in itS
opinion there Was no reversible error
in either instance
With the decision Of the Appellate
Court. il now rests with Governor
Ritchie 10 fix the date for the execn
ton OF Robinson. which will take
place at Annapolis, the crime having
Leen committed within the precincts
of Anne Arundel county
Murder Was Brutal
The murdofof Tydings. which was
most brutal one, was committed N
a small ,lump of woods near Boone
station. on the Annapolis Baltimore
boulevard. April 26. 1919. Tydings
was slain as he vas on his way TO his
home. not far distant Robbery was
the motive for the crime Tydings
skull was crushed with a big rock.
which was found noarby his body
Suspicion Was directed towards Rob
inson. who lived nearby the scene OF
The tragedy. after Baltimore city de-
teGtiyes began their investigation OF
tho crime owing to the fact that he
had disappeared from his home with
in a few hours after the affair. The
negro was traced to his former home
at Forest Depot. Virginia where he
was arrested hy former Detective
Joseph Dougherty Of the Baltimore
city force. who brought him back to
the county Robinson confessed 10
Dougherty aud others, including for
mer States Attorney Nicholas II
Green. OF this county First he said
BE- struck Tydngs with stick. Az
terwards he sdid he hit the aged man
with q rock, saying that Tydings
struck him first He said he did not
know that the blow had been fatal.
The negro made various conflicting
statements. among them being thai
Tydfrgs had molosted three young
coiored boys whom he saw in the
woods playing craps These
negroes afterwards denied that aSser
tion, and also that they had seen
either Tydings or Robinson in the
woods Ono OF the chief things that
led 10 the suspicion and arrest Of
Robinson was the fact that be had
eaten meal OF pork chops at his
home on the day that he disappeared
from the county The pork chops. Il
developed had been purchased By
Tydings, along with other provisions
1T the country store at Boone Station.