The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-08-08

certain for him 10 avoid it. He ran some
thirty or forty yards, fell, and soon expi-
red After committing the brutal outrage,
Hardy walked back into the house, with
his knife in hand, reeking with blood,
exclaimng, I'm tart, and that's the way
Ill serve any mau who'll follow me -
Some of those who heard him, thinking
he had got into difficulty with d Mexican,
advised him 10 leave, which he did. AS
soon as II was ascertained that he had
killed Captain Brennan, men were sent TO
the several ferries to prevent his escape
into Mexico, and others started IN pursuit.
He was arrested next morning about day
light, near one of the ferries, ironed and
taken to Jail. The only cause assigned
for this brutal outrage, is the refusal of
Brennan to let Hardy have money, while
at Brazos, which is, in all probability, the
true cause; as Hardy was heard TO say,
on his way up from that place, that he
had marked his man.
The people OF Brownsville assembled
and demanded Hardy of the deputy sher-
if, who, not daring TO refuse, delivered
him into their hands and he was SEN
fenced to be executed. The Flag thus
describes the closing scene IN the life o.
the desperado: On reaching the spot Sc
lected for this tragic scene, he remarked
that he knew he had to die, and intended
10 die like a man; but would rather be
shot than hung. The crowd assembled TO
witness the solemn tragedy was quite
large, but orderly and quiet, with few
exceptions. No one volunteering to shoot
the guilty, hardened wretch, it was deci-
l..I th ha III I'll
time, and even while arrangements were
making fol launching him into eternity,
where he would meet more dreaded tri-
bunal than any on earth, he eyinced the
most perfect indifference as TO his fate,
not suffering a muscle of his face or limbs
to betray the least emotion; and even took
the rope that was to hang him and tied
the hangman's knot 10 show how it was
done, without the slightest perceptible
tremor Of the nerves. Those managing
the matter, fearing the knot was not well
tied, united il for the purpose of relying
IN which they failed, when he remarke ed
10 gentleman standing near him that he
would have to tie it again. This kind Of
flee the individual addressed promised TO
perform for him. The doomed man then
got into a cart, mounted on plank which
rested OH the wheels, without any resist
ance or assistance, and, while the rope
which was suspended from a beam used
III hosting beeves, was being adjusted
around his neck, asked 10 have his hands
tied behind him. There he stood, high
above the crowd, his hands tied, the moose
close about his neck, death staring him in
the face, calm, cool and collected. The
cart moved from under him, and in this
condition he was hurried into eternity
Such spectacle we never Witnessed be-
fore-may be never again. 1t was evi-
IDENTIFY his intention to have leaped from
the cart, but he was prevented from so
doing by some one attracting his attention
as 1t started, which caused his feet to drag
from the tail. He died after slight strug-
gle, and thus terminated the earthly career
Of Bill Hardy, who had been the terror oI
every community in which he lived. He
met death with the same reckless indiffer-
ence that he had meted it out to others.