Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-27
HARDWgCKE.
Who He Is and What He Was-..A Story by
the Little Rock 0ficsr WhO Arrested
Hin.
The Ups and Dswss Of a HardsBed Char.
seisF.-.Ths Story Of Badly Spent Life.
LrrrLF RocK. March %. 1s71.

! Editor ADDedI-YOur Little Rock
/ correspondent is mistaken in some Oi
! his statements in reference to L. W.
| HardWicke alias J. L. HardWicke.
EARLY IN FEBRUARY
l left this place at the sOliCItati on OF
Jones, Mcdowell 81 Co. and w. A.
Parish, (taking with me acquisitions
on the Governors of Virginia and
Maryland from Governor Clayton of
this State), in search Of the said Hard
Wicke, or to get what information l
could OF his whereabouts,
STOPPING FIRST IN LENCHBURG, VA,
/ called on his brother, George Welles
HardWicke, who has been editor and
proprietor of the LynChburg BeDu6i-
can for the last twelve years. He ac-
knOWledged be was his brother and a
native Of that city; that he had mar
Tied a Miss Bailey, OF RlchmOnd, Va,
nearly twenty years since. He had
on several occasions passed himself
OF as the editor Of that paper. Some
twelve years since ne was in Lynch
burg with another woman as his wife.
About that time q. w. HardWicke re-
ceived a letter
FROM HIS FIRST WIFE,
from some point in south Carolina,
stating that she haU been deserted
by her husband and was IN destitute
circumstances. He did not see his
brother on that occasion, as he dis
owned him for his shameful conduct
IN abandoning his family and taking
up with or marrying another woman,
be did not know which, and was not
aware that he had ever gone back TO
his family, until told him OF his Op-
eratIOns in this place. de
CORROBORATED ALL THE STATEMENTS
made by HardWicke here as 10 his
family-havIng married a Miss Bal
ley, Of Richmond, daughter of J. w.
Bailey; having had i've children, but
two Of them Ilving-Willis aud JO-
seph; the former named for himself
(the editor. He served in a Lynch
burg artillery company during the
war.
From Lynchburg 1
WENT TO RICHMOND.
Was advised by "a detective not 20 let
il be known that i was in search OF
the fugitive, but to leave the matter
to him to make the proper inquiry.
He saw Mr.. Bailey, the father OF Mrs.
He had not heard from
her for several months; nor did he
know where she was. He is quite an
old man, a carpenter by trade, and
very poor, HardWiCke's father once
lived in Richmond; carried on the
tailoring business. He has two broth
ers; one a farmer, near LynChburg;
the other the editor alluded to, and
no brother in New York, as hestated.
/ met with several persons in Rich
mOnd who had once known him.
From one 1 learned he had left Rich
mond under a cloud, having
COMMITTED FORGERY,
or something Of the kind. From an
other, that he was a lOcksmith by
trade, and knew Of his having been
called in on one occasion to open a
safe when the key had been lost.
After the great fire in Richmond, at
the fall of the city, Hard WiCke bought
up a number of the safes that had
been burned, and set up an establish
ment to repair them. The same gen
tleman has a sale in his possession
stamped
'BEPAIRED BY j. L. HARDWICKE."
Another gentleman stated he heard |
Of his operations in Washington, ID. /
c. sOon after the close Of the war he
bought out a gambling establishment, |
gave a draft on New York (his usual /
way Of raising tunds), ran the estab- 4
.ishment one night, cleared 5000, and |
left the following morning.
This information is derived from |
lndOubted authority.
IN BALTIMORE
| could get no information Of his |
was about giving up the |
,earCh, when ! received a telegram /
rom ". A. Parish, of this place, to
20 on to Philadelphia and identify /
him, where ! remained until Mr.. /
John B. Walker arrived with a requi-
,itiOn on the Governor of Pennsyl-
yania. The day following, we started
with our prisoner for this place.
1t is evidently mistake that he is
q native Of Erie, Pennsylvania~and il /
be ever lived in Keokuk, ne
HAS HAD FOUR WIVES.
There Is no doubt but the wife he /
had here was a Miss Baily, Of Rich
mOnd, and wife No. /. He was once
In jail in Mobile, for what crime or
how he escaped, have never
learned.
Very respectfully,
A gTATruE4rVEgp |