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Show fngs, it was evident that t bey must have been guided by men who knew the country well. Hare was a soldier in the American army, and had been released from jail to enlist in the service. In the same company com-pany was an Irishman named Farren, who was a British deserter. He sounded Hare as to the possibility of seizing the president and taking him down the Potomac Po-tomac to the English fleet. Two other men were to be secured and the project carried out. Farreu wanted money, and to get it undertook to rob a man on the road near Washington, but his intended victim was a powerful, resolute res-olute fellow, and shot Farren, who died the following day. He had always claimed to Hare that he had been offered a thousand pounds for securing the president, pres-ident, and that Gen. Koss was in the scheme. Hearing of Farren's mishap, Hare got apprehensive that the Irishman had betrayed be-trayed him, go he stole his captain's horse and escaped to Baltimore. After a reckless career in company with his young brother Louis and a well known criminal named Alexander, he stopped the mail at Havre de Grace and got $13,-700 $13,-700 in specie and note The entire party were captured in Hunt's clothing store : in Baltimore the next day. Alexander and Hare were hanged, and the brother was given a ten year sentence. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Times. . . . . ne, the Hlehwayman. t - was the Dicfc Turpin of his day ate of Murrell and Mason, sissippi bandits. The principal attached to his career was his -on Wit the alleged plot to kid-. kid-. -'"t Madison and deliver him f Admiral Cockburn, the com-,''tle com-,''tle British fleet. When, in en' the Britisn. under Gep. jred Washington and burned |