The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-03
HIS POCKETS WERE R|FLED
Corpse v ; led Down With
ss Stones
MOTHER : SISTER In EUROPE
Dead LAST Seen. Alive Sunday
Evening, October 20, When He
Visited House of Friend
Twenty-one Years Old.

New York, November 2.-There is no room
for doubt that the body found in the bay
at Keyport, N. j., last evening was that Of
Frederick Hardy, Jr., of Mount Pleasant,
Tenn. or that the young man Che was n
years of age) was murdered and an attempt
made to conceal the crime by sinking the
corpse in the bay by means of a large stona
attached to the body by a rope The acs
cumulation of gas in the body caused 1t to
rise to the surface, and the finding Of it
by oyster men followed.
The pockets of the young mans clothing
were turned inside out, and his money and
watch were gone. There were evidences
that Hardy had been beaten on the head
until dead or until unconscious.
Hardy, who came to New York to take
UP the study of art. was last seen alive
Sunday evening, October q, when he left
the home of e. c. Moxham, an old friend
of his family, living i'm the Fort Hamilton
section of Brooklyn, for hills boarding place
near by. He could not have had more than
The mother of the murdered man and hjs
sister sailed for Europe recently. HIS
father came east when informed OF the
disappearance of his son, and with relatives
residing here is doing all in his power TO
discover the perpetrators Of the murder.
Several visiting cards bearing the name
of Fritz Hardy were found last Sunday
among the shrubs and trees which cover
the decliyity from the shore road to the was
ter's edge at Ninety-ninth street, Brooklyn.
No significance was attached to the fact
until the fact of the finding of Hardys
body was published today. Then a close
examination of the vicinity was made and
upon fence which guards the water side
of the Shore Road, stains which looked like
blood were discovered.
1t seems probable that Hardy was asA
saulted and murdered here and his body
towed across the Narrows and down the
bay to near where it was found, distahes
of about fifteen miles.
The summer residence of Albert john
son, the millionaire street railway man, Is
only a few rods from the scene of the mur-
der and it is only short distance to the
home of Mr.. Moxham, where Hardy spent
his last evening.
AT this season of the year the section Is
nearly deserted. There has been some COM
paint recently by people of the vicinity
along the shore road in the Fort Hamilton
and Bay Ridge section, having taken ref
uge there from the activity of the police
in the borough of Manhattan.
The announcement yesterday afternoon Of
the death Of Frederick Hardy, Jr., created
profound sensation and carried gloom to
the hearts of his friends in Birmingham.
Fritz" Hardy, as he was Familiarity
known was an exceedingly bright boy, full
of life and hope and determination and gave
promise of a most successful career in his
chosen avocation-art.
1t was only few months ago that he
went awav from Birmingham to fit hin1A
self for his profession and just a day or
two before his death he wrote to friends
here telling of success far beyond his ex-
pectations. Zaugbaum, the well known
newspaper artist of New York, had taken
him under his care and had shown him
every possible courtesy.
His ambition was to become newspapers
artist for which he had a decided talent.
The artists he had met and who had seen
his work spoke most encoura gingly to him.
This was the tone of his letter and 1t re-
joiced his friends to know he was meeting
with such splendid success.
A press dispatch received shortly after
noon giving an account of the finding of his
body and of the murder was the first in
timation his friends had of his death.
Fritz Hardy was reared in Birmingham,
his father having been in business here
until about two years ago, part of the time
as secretary of the old Alabama State Fair
association and later he engaged In the
brokerage business. "Fritz' was for q
number of years employed in the Southern
railway office. A year or two ago he went
with the F'ulton-Means Iron company and
left there to go to his father who was ip-
terested in phosphate mines at Mt. Pleas,
ant, Tenn. Later he went to New York to
study art.
Mis- mother, and sister, Miss Cora, sailed
for Europe the Goth of october and ex-
nected to he obscene year.