Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-04
AlROY, Ja.
Proof AccumuIating That He Was
Victim Of outlay.
Further Particulars OF ,hr rina,nS
OF His Body -I.ts nody l,ronsh,to
NorfolH ana Laid mt Res. IN Elm
wood Ye.tcrdny.

a New York telegram in yesterdays
Washington Post gives the following
additional particulars OF the finding of
the body of young Frederick Hardy,
Jr, at Keyport. N. J., Monday even
ing:
There is no room for doubt that
the pouy found In the bay at Neyport
Nd. last evening was that of Fred
erick Hardy. Jr.. of Mount Pleasant
Tenn, or that the young man Che was
81 years Of age), was murdered and nm
attempt made to conceal the crime by
SINKING the corpse in the bay by
means OF a large stone attached to the
poaS py a rope. The accumulation CT
gases gas IN the body caused 1T to rise to
.ne surface and the finding Of it by
9Sstermen followed. The pockets of the
young mans clothing were turned in
SIDE out and his money and watch
were gone.
There We're evidences that Hardy
had been beaten on The head until
ue'u OF unconscious. Hardy. who came
70 New York to take up the study OF
art vas last seen alive Sunday even
ING, octo6er p, when he left the home
lanily's, living in the Fort Hamilton
section of Brooklyn for his boarding
place near by. He could not have had
more ore, than $50 with him.
Ihe mother of the murdered man
ana his sister sailed for Europe re-
Gently. Ills father came East when in
| formed of the disappearance of his son,
ana; anu WITH relatives residing here. is do
NE an IN his power to discover the
perpetrators of the murder
Several visiting cards bearing the
name of Fritz Hardy" were found last
sunday among tho shrubs and trees
winch cover the dcclivity from the
Shore road to the waters edge ut
Nincty-ninth street. brooklyn. 40 sig
niiicance was attached to the fact nm
M mo tinding OF Hardy's body was
published to-day. Then Il close cx-
am,ha don of the vicinity was made,
water side of the Shore road stains
which locked like blood were discov-
cred.
1T seems probable hat Hardy was
assaulted and murdered here and his
Doggy tossed across the Narrows and
| down the bay TO near where it was
found, distance OF about fifteen miles
ihe summer residence of Aibert John
son. the millionaire street railway man,
is only a few rods from the probable
scene OF the murder. and it is only q
short distance to the home OF Mr. Mox-
ham, where Hardy spent his last even
| ing.
-. this season of the yaar the sta
| 100 30 iitsti ~ tcScTteu. Inerc mas been
some complaint recently by people of
me vicinity tls2t gh-looking men
! have been loiterinE along the Shore
read IN the Fort Hamilton and Bay
Ridge section. having taken refuge
there from the activity of the police in
the borough OF Manhattan.
"Hardy's body was shipped from
kcEport. n. T.. to Norfolk, VA, to-
night. No inquest will be held. Hardy's
father iaenined the body without look
me- at it.. The clothing found on 1t
established the identity withouta doubt.
There was nothing found in the young
mans pockets. and his father said he
was doubtless murdered. for he always
carried q. gold watch OF antique style
that had belonged to his grandfather.
to the detection Of the murderer
Hardy had probably about $50 in his
pockets.
The doctors who made an autopsy
found bad bruisc OIL the left side of
the head ut the temple. The examin-
alton OF the brain, when the cap was
removed. showed that the blow had
been delivered with great force. 1t had
caused conclusion of the brain"
n. Y. SUNS ACCOUNT.
The New York Sun Of yesterday
SAYS:
Around the Waist was tied n sroIIe
Weighing, perhaps, twenty pounds
chor sltiffs. Around the neck was
red mark. as il the man had been
st:angled with a rope. The forehead
was battered in.
Young Hardy disappeared sudden
ly on the night before he was to take
up his work at the Art Students
League In this city, and his relatives
say that suicide is out of the uues-
ton. He came North early in Octo-
Der ard went TO Fort Hamilton be-
cause his chnm, ~. Coleman Ward
OF Birmingham Ma, was boarding
there in Nincty-sixth street with n.
T. MoNham, also a Southerncr There
was no room Tor Hardy in the hIoxham
home and so he went to live n few
doors away at n boarding house on
the Shore read. Hardys mother and
tobsr 18th.
After their Departures no spent much
of his time playing tennis and golf.
ana he made FREQUENT visits 10 the
house of his grandfather. Henry G
tardy. at Ill Montague street, Brook
lyn.
Hardy was a cheerful young man
and he was In exceptionally llnr sDr
us ut Fort Hamilton, because he was
looking forward to his art studias
Tie had liberal allowance from his
"a Grnnt Birsrins., says Mr. y. A.
COOK.
AIr. John S. Cook. of Atlanta. Ga. n
great sufferer from 6vsnS ,,j