Robert Lee Myers September 16, 1942 - January 12, 2014

Robert Lee Myers, 71, died Sunday, January 12, 2014. Born September 16, 1942 in Westminster, he was the son of the late Carroll C. Myers Sr. and Agnes J. Rhoten Myers.

He had been the owner of Maryland Business Services in Westminster.

Surviving is daughter Michelle Myers-Kline of Gettysburg, PA; sons Bryan Patrick Myers, Sr., of Savannah, GA and Robert Anthony Myers, Sr. of Hanover, PA; 7 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by siblings Carroll C. Myers, Jr., Sterling A. Myers and Elizabeth S. Null.

There will be no funeral services and interment will be private.

Cremation arrangements by Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster.

Online condolences may be made at www.prittsfuneralhome.com.

http://www.prittsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Robert-Myers-2/#!/Obituary

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Eagle Archive: Murder and mayhem led to Carroll's last public hanging in 1916

Eagle Archive: Murder and mayhem led to Carroll's last public hanging in 1916

By Kevin Dayhoff, February 19, 2012, http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0219-20120215,0,7885898.story

Two sensational murders were the talk of Carroll County in February years ago.

The first involved a thrilling trial and the other, a murder which resulted in the hanging of Solomon Sutler, Friday, April 14, 1916, on gallows purchased from Adams County for $25.00. It was the third and last hanging in the county’s history.

The first hanging was in June 1859, when the only woman ever to have been executed here, Rebecca McCormack, was hung for stabbing a 13-year-old boy with a pitchfork. Then, in 1874, Joseph Davis was hanged.

On May 21, 1920 the now defunct Union Bridge Pilot wrote about the thrilling trial for the January 29, 1920 murder of Dominick Fabrizzi. “The trial of Mrs. Dominick Fabrizzi aged 29 who admitted killing her husband near here…, then placing the body on the R. R. tracks, was begun in Westminster on Monday morning…” … http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0219-20120215,0,7885898.story

Eagle Archive: Murder and mayhem in Carroll County years ago

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