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(cI!tBy W. S. POSTERWacoTexas penitentiary, he having just completed a ten yeardefrnl the car of no further use.sentence for participating in the Pardo Grocery safejob on Speight Avenue back in 1952.He threw this time in the six years on good behavior. It was served on a farm. Frank just missedan habitual criminal hitch. None of the convicts witha record are allowed to serve time behind the walls inHuntsville.With Hardy on this Pardo burglary were Jesse WerWhen Red Burton was on the Waco police force he managed toshanghai Hardy to Missouri by holding an extradition trial under a cotton wood tree in East Waco near the Old Fort Graham road. That was in 1937. some four years after the robbery, whenhis confederates were alreadydoing time. Lawyers had managed to beak previous extradition warrants for Hardy He got ten years for his part in the bank holdupabt1BJr\3oIFBoththen and Otis DeHart, who got 6 and 8 yeais.have served that time and are---back in the penitentiary on I n afce the arrest of Barrow-, Hard\ other jobs, for short terms: Hardy an(t Turner downtown. They con was kept on dope in the Waco city jail until a complete confession was obtained.1*4It’s my last rap,” say Hardy who is a painter by profession He was on dope when he went to the penitentiary from Waco this last time. He’s off of dope now and expects to remain away from it. Hardy served 18 months in Federal as a result of fooling with dope, being caught in a sale.The Wacoan who was born at Marlin, Texas being past the fifty mark, has done 38‘2 years in penitentaries. He served this total time in 25 years which his about half his life.vinced the officers that Barrow was a school youngster out of AM college they had just picked up. He was released then but arrested many times later on crimes that rocked Texas.Hardy’s as well as Turner's to-*al amount of convictions ran over 300 years each.In his younger days Hardy got mixed up with Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, Raymond Hamilton and William Turner back in 1929 which continued with some hair-raising episodes. Turner is back in Waco now at his mother’sBarrow broke out of the McLennan county jail using a six shooter smuggled in the jail by Bonnie Parker in 1950. Jailer I P Stan ford was stuck up in the break In 1929 Hardy got out of the bottom floor of the old McLennan county jail by use of saw blades given to him by Clyde Barrow. None of the other prisoners left with him in the broad daylight escape. Snow was a foot deep as he drove into Dallas in a stolen Ford auto. The block busted ren-Ravmond Hamilton joined the Barrow gang and was in anti around Waco on these gangsterepisodes. Their home has alwaysbeen in West Dallas. Hamiltonwas the only one electrocuted. It was in 1932 that a filling sta tion, jewelry store operator, an old man, was killed in the stickup on the Fort Worth cutoff out ofHillsboro in 1932.gvaaa/ncstCnIClyde Barrow got his first sentence from Waco when Turner and Hardy were sent up for n burglary job. Barrow drew 11 years, reduced to 12; Turner 40 years, dropped down to 4; and Hardy 30 years which was reduced to 3 years, running concurrent with other* indictments.iInside Todayhome. Hollis Hale got hooked into a Missouri State bank daylight stickup, drawing a 20 year sentence, serving it in 12 year. He is making good in Waco now. There was a lot of shooting in that his first and last bank burglary, Hardy explained. Hale got clipped with a bullet as he opened the bank door. Clyde Barrow was ram rodding the job.Buck Barrow was shot in Joplin, Missouri in a stickup He died from the wound in Dexter, Iowa His wife, Blanche, a country girl drew ten years. She never figur-(IMcKefhan HomeMore than three hundred dollars worth of stolen ammunitionfrom the Army arsenal was shot up that day in October, 1932, at about II a.m. The robbers made good the holdup, getting only $137.50 cut of the bank, the to-tal amount of money on hand atthat time. That was during the bank failure depression era.Openinged in any other crime. Hardy says he was only introduced to Pretty Boy Floyd, his only connections with the nation’s number one outlaw who was killed in a tip-off. Wacoans actual time in which i the convictions became final were three 10 years, a 4, one 3 and an 18 months sentence. He served these in three six years two three years and a 14 and a half monthshitches.cPIrlt;see page 3eSiesnHardy recalled the first time ?yde Barrow got arrested in Waco which gave him* the nick name of “School Boy,” Barrow Homer Casey was just starting in as a motorcycle cop for the city of Waco. He later became sheriff ofShould yougo backLocal officers are going ft) help Hardy to go straight as they are doing for William Turner and others. Hardy has lost lot of weight during hi* confinement and hard farm work. He realize-his mistakes and plans to profitfrom a wasted life He is thank ful he never killed anyone, am1 he doesn't have use for a gunanymore.sori¥ito school?I SCHOOL ASSESSMENT SETsee part IIIof a three-partseriesiHome study plan—SeeI!Radio, Drafting, Etc.McLennan county. Casey was help-1 ins Detective William Buchanan »Page 5We have been advised by the City Tax Office that the assessed valuation of the Waco Independent School District for the 1958 1959 school year will be $169 380,990. The budget was based or $167,000,000.IThe Board will adopt an order setting the official tax rate for 1958-1959, at their next meeting Wednesday.
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Waco News Citizen
Waco, Texas, US
Tue, Sep 16, 1958
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