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noI)Klt*\#*n \ Ort Ifi* St utciK ^hiilt;I Hi* f* Agruiii a I re? Man.1CntL»fMonday evening Attorney John E. ( Moore, who, with A B. Kirkpatrick,1t,f«va» interested in his behalf receiveda telegram announcing thatHenry Hardy had been pardoned byGovernor Matthews. To-dav Alt.Kirkpatrick received a letter fromGovernor Matthews confirming theV-J#)tnews.In 1886 Hardy was a music teacher * I and manufacturer of organs in this city, hits shop being corner of Mainrand Madison streets. July 8, of thatdyear he was accused of enticing Alicethe eight-year-old daughter of JimBeard, into his shop and ravishingher person. The affair, greatly ex-aggerated, created intense excitement and Hardy, believing that amob was forming to lynch him, fledm10soit I officers in a cornfield on the l.x kefor his life, lie was captured by tinw farm east of the city and placed in‘Mail.At the June term of court, issCM,he was tried and given seventeen;i years in the penitentiary. The de-i)fense was insanity and the prisonerIin court went through a systematicr course of crazy gyrations tiiat weakened his case and no doubt added*many years to his sentence. The11 evidence against him was not strong,and indeed it was not proven that hewas guilty of the crime charged.After the excitement had subsided■everybody realized that l!ard\ wastoo severely dealt with, and two yearlater an effort w a- made to secure hi*-pardon, the judge, jury and attorneysuniting in a petition in his behalfHardy served ~ix years and fivemonths of his seventeen year sentence. His mother and a sister wholived here at the time, are now residents of Muucie, moving there shortly after the trial.
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Tue, Nov 28, 1893
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