Show PARDONED LIFER WANTS TO STAY IN penitentiary aged man pleads that he has no other place he can call home dubuque rowa iowa pleading that he ha i 18 Is unfit to face the world hugh rob bard convIct convicted ea 80 30 years ago ot of the murder of two railroad detectives I 1 and pardoned by governor kendall has asked permission to remain in the state penitentiary at fort madison Is seventy years old and feeble leonard hardy who entered the penitentiary as leon haley when he was convicted with Rob hobbard bard also won a pardon for 30 80 years he has haa insisted that he Is innocent and he predicted that he would be pardoned while age and prison life were crushing hobbard Rob bard hardy who was twenty four years old when he was sentenced prepared for his day ot of freedom by studying journalism while hobbard was asserting that he was afraid of the world hardy said goodby good by to him shook h hands with the ward warden en an and d an admi asked permission jo remain in tent lary na bounced hii cea that mat fe ee iv was 5 going to texas to enter newspaper work mystery shrouded enshrouded En pal hardy attracted much interest while he was awaiting trial for the murder young handsome and seemingly well educated he whetted public curiosity by admitting that his real name was woven about him ill never tell my real name while my mother is alive was his big reply whenever he was questioned about his secret although he be was told that announcement no of f his h 18 real name might eato assist in securing a ring a parole ten years ago mrs george hardy widow of a rock hock island ill III merchant died without an answer to her beares r that she see her son le leonard on ard in th the e ur library dri R at fort ajr tm madison a d penitentiary leon haley the librarian br arian arlan read of the tha womans comans death she was my mother he told the warden my name la is leonard hardy im 1 glad she he died without learning where here w I 1 era am circumstantial evidence hobbard and hardy were convicted on circumstantial evidence and many Dubuqu DubuQue ers believed they were innocent theodore firth and henry talcott were shot to death in the milwaukee railroad yards yarda here in the morning of april 14 1893 while they were searching tor for hobbard and hardy who were suspected of implication M in a robbery believing the fugitives were hiding in a passenger coach the officers entered opposite at ends of the car each with a revolver in his hand A few minutes later the engineer of a passing train saw firth on the ground outside the car ile he was dying with a bullet wound talcott was found dead inside the coach hobbard and hardy offered alibis and they were substantiated by several beveral witnesses the engineer declared however that he saw the two men pass in front of his locomotive shortly before the officers were found the defense charged the detectives killed each other in a duel in the dark the prosecutor contended that and hardy were hiding in the coach and shot the officers as they entered on the witness stand hardy admitted that he had committed several robberies guilty was the verdict and life sentences were imposed no action has been taken on rob bards plea that he bi be permitted to remain in the penitentiary who can flee flea self T who Is the man that by fleeing from hla his country can also flee flea from hiew delit alt 7 horace hodacs |