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Show HE FACES NEWJERM ' NEW YORK. Sept. 20. A New York SUte detective . will sail for Germany within a few days to bring back to this country Henry F. Hardy, who for the last fourteen years has been an inmate in-mate of German prisons. Hardy . Is to be brought back to serve an unexpired term, of twelve years in the Clinton prison, from .which he escaped In 1890. He is declared to be one of the most clever bank thieves ever known in this country- ' After his escape he is alleged to have robbed two Canadian banks of $7000 snd was next heard of In Germany, living the life of an "American millionaire," mil-lionaire," as he was called at a fashionable fash-ionable hotel . In Frankfort-on-Main. A Baden Baden banker recognized him as a man Who had stolen from bis bank cash to the amount of $24,000. He was st once imprisoned by the German authorities au-thorities and. his time is now expiring. Since Hardy has . learned that he wouM be brought back be has written letters' to the SUte Superintendent of Prisons asking that he be allowed to remain in Germany. . The authorities bave refused to consider his petition. - , 1 : . ; . |