The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-06
HARDING IN ATLANTA
| ALABAMA FUGITIVE sUBJEc1
 OF HABEAS CORPUS.
ws,rant Charging Detective Calla- han With Kidnapping Him From Florida Was Dismissed.
 Said to be Wrong Man.

Atlanta, Ga, Apru 3.-ine hapeas corpus proceedings instituted in the City Court by Le Roy Hardin the man who charged Detective Callahan of Cincin- natl with kidnapping him in Florida. was continued this afternoon until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. It Is asserted by the attorneys for Hardin that Mrs. Hardin and friend of Hardin's from Brooks vile, Fla, will be in the city at that }time and that by means of these witnesses 1t will be proved that Hardin Is not the man wanted in Ohio. - /.
 rho requisition papers from the Gov ~ ernor of Ohio call for man by the name is positive that Hardin is the man want ed. Hardin says he is not Glaser, but that Glaser is still in Florida.
 The warrant. charging Detective Calla- han with Kidnapping was dismissed by Justice Ormond today.
 Callahan Was Held.
 On warrant charging him with kid naping LeRoy c. Hardin, for whom he had requisition. properly signed and endorsed by Governor Jennings. of F'lori- da, D. A. Callahan, city detective of Cincinnati. was arrested Monday morn ing at o'clock and held at headquarters, says The Atlanta Journal. The arrest of Callahan resulted from a story told by Hardin, after the latter had been locked up at headquarters. where he had been carried by Callahan to spend the night.
 The case will be heard Tuesday morn ing at Il o'clock by Justice Walter Or mond.
 Strenuous efforts to carry Hardin back to Ohio to answer to the charge of obtaining money and merchandise under false pretenses is the cause of the legal battle now on. Hardin is fighting bit- terly to avoid going back. ---.
 At 9:30 o'clock Sunday night Callahan carried Hardin to headquarters and ask ed that he be kept over night, until 5 o'clock Monday morning. when he intend- ed continuing the trip to Cincinnati.
 ''Dou you want to give your name as Hardin, or some of the other names you have been using down there?" asked Call lahan. The man gave his name as Har- din.
 Hardin told a tale of woe which arous- ed the sympathy of some one at head quarters and Attorney Harvey Hill was summoned, It was he who swore out the warrant charging Detective Callahan with kdnaping.
 Hardin tells one story of his arrest, while the detective tells another. Accord ing to Hardin, he was president of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, of Fort Payne. Ala. The bank failed, but Hardin claimes that all of the depositors were paid in full.
 We had in the bank at the time of the failure for collection, a draft from s. Zorn, a big grain dealer. of Louisville, Ky, and we did not pay it. It Is this which has caused the arrest.
 "r have been arrested a number of times and it has finally reached a perse- cution. After the Alabama failure I went to Brooksville, Fla, and I was ar rested there few days ago and taken to Tampa, where was tried on three charges in the United States Commis- sioner's office, charging me with using the mails to defraud. All of these cases were dismissed. Then Callahan arrested me He took me to headquarters in Tampa He would not let my wife see me He would not allow met to get clothing -,i He heard that my attorney had taken a writ of habeas corpus and spirited me away to Ybor City. where he kept me in a lumber yard until time fcs 5ths- train: Thef1.' with the oontfiv-- ance of a United States inspector. he hid me in a mail car until we reached Georgia. where, with shackles on my hands and feet. I was put In a passenger car. have plenty of money and I'm going to fight this case through"
 Callahan is a splendid looking man, neatly dressed, and evidently & man of education.
 i've been a detective fin Cincinnati eighteen years" he said. "and this man Hardin, as he calls ,himself,fis tough customer. We don't want him for beat ing any Louisville man out of money, though he is wanted on that charge.
 He is a native of Greenfield, O. On April 21, 1902, over two years ago, he pre- sented a check for $500 on the Duhma Jewelry Company, of Cincinnati. and 1t proved worthless. We have been follow ing him for two years. When I finally located him in Florida he had already been arrested for using the mails for fraudulent purposes. He was cleared on these charges. and turned over to me.
 '1 secured him on April 2, of this year. had requisition papers from the Gov ernor of Ohio, and they had been signed, endorsed and approved by Governor Jen- nings. of Florida" and he showed the papers.
 ''I did bring him in a mail car, because he's such slick man, with many friends, that thought they might try to take him away from me. And I've worked too hard to get him to let him get away.
 'He is wanted in several places in Florida, in Alabama, in Louisville and in