Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-05
MURDER A DEP MYSTERY
Evidence That Young Hardy, the Art
Student, Was Robbed.


THE BODY WASHED ASHORE
FOUND MILES FROM HIS HOME,
WITH A STONE ANCHOR AT
TACHED TO TT - AUTOPSY
SHOWS THAT A CRIME WAS
COMMITTED, BUT THE POLICE
HAVE NO SOLUTION.
NEW YORK. November An the
death of Frederick Hardy, the young
Southern art student, Brooklyn, and
New Jersey detectives have on their
hands a mystery apparently as deep
and inexplicable as was the murder Of
Shaw, the street railway inspector. sew
eral months ago.
Both cases were similar in execution,
if not in conception; both victims lived
near "the village as FIT. Hamilton is
called, and the bodies of both men were
found many miles away from FIT. Ham
ilton, with their arms bound and
weighted down with stones. The mys-
terry surrounding the murder of the
street car inspector never was cleared,
and the cause of the death of young
Hardy never may be made known.
Hardy, who was II years old, and
good looking came to this city about
October l from Mount Pleasant Tenn.
His father is Frederick Hardy, ST.,
rich mine owner of that place, and the
intention was to have the young man
cultivate his aptitude for illustration
at the Art Students League in this city.
He went TO Fort Hamilton and engaged
board at Ninety-frst street and the
Shore road, so that he might be near
a former college chum, Coleman Ward,
who lives in Ninety-sixth street, near
the Shore Road.
On Sunday, October %, be called on
his friend Ward, who was boarding at
the house of G. e. Markham, and en-
joyed an afternoon of fun in the vacant
fiat in front of the house in playing
Hardy met G. c. Hubbard and they
exchanged cards.
At 11:15 p M Hardy said he must
be going, and left the merry company
of friends. He said he might go to
"the village" as he needed some chew
ing gum He then bade them all good
fohf c+o NJ tb
last seen of him until his bruised body
was washed upon the beach at Key
port, N. j.. with a rope and stone
anchor attached to it.
On October % Ward became anxious
when he learned that Hardy had not
been at his boarding house around the
corner the night before. Then he re-
membered that Hardy was to go to the
Art Students League on that day and
pay his first fee of SIT. So he thought
he might have gone to the city with
friends. He knew Hardy did not have
much money with him, as he had asked
Ward for 81 with which to make UP
his tuition fee the day before
The next day-Tuesday-th was
no news of Hardy, and his friends, who
expected to hear good news of his re-
ception in the Art Students League,
became uneasy. They found that he
had not been there, and Ward started
to make inquiries. He learned that af-
ter leaving the Markham home Hardy
had gone to the store of Robert Bull
lock, back Of the postofice, where he
had purchased some chewing gum and
tobacco.
There are several places in "the viii
lage" of more than doubtful reputa-
ton, but Ward did not believe the
young artist had gone there. Thor
oughly alarmed, he sent word to the
police, and they made a search of all
these places, but nothing was known of
young Hardy after he left the Markham
home, outside of the somewhat uncer-
tain recollection of the storekeeper-
Bullock-that he had bought tobacco
there on that Sunday night. Then the
father of the young Southerner was
Informed of his disappearance and
came on here at once.
They searched in vain until last
Wednesday, when word came rom Key
port, n. j.. that the body of young
man had been washed ashore there.
with crushed skull, a stone anchor
attached to the waist and every other
evidence of murder and robbery.
Investigation showed it to be the body
OF young Hardy, and the most rigid
investigation again was made into the
conditions under which he was last
seen.
The police were unable to discover
THE slightest clue until Thursday. when
MISS Annie George, daughter of
Henry George, with three girl friends.
told them they had seen card of Fred
erlck Hardy's at the steps on the bluff.
near Nlnety-ninth street and the Shore
road. This place is almost opposite
the George home, and the girls said
they first noticed the card on Monday.
but did not pay any attention to it.
At this place there is a fence sep-
arating the Shore road from the steep
bluff leading to the piers and waters
OF the bay. The fence is broken by an
open space without gate, and wooden
steps lead from the road about twenty
feet down the side of the bluff. Then
path leads down and to the south
to Johnson's boat house and to that of
R. H. Hageman.
lne steps, paths and entire sur
roundings are unlighted at night.
Dense nnderbrush grows on the steep
sides Of the hill and overhangs the
paths-an ideal place for murder. And