The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-04

of their money; they went to New Or
leans and spent what was left.
Again, on the road outside of Nash
vile, Hare by himself robbed a man
of 1910, but an even smaller robbery
shortly >afterward in Franklin county,
Virginia, was his undoing.
about 8 o'clock the night robbed
the drover, as was riding along very
rapidly to get out of reach of pursuit,
! saw standing across the road
beautiful white horse, as white as
snow; his ears stood straight forward
and his figure was very beautiful.
never saw so white horse as he was.
When ! approached and got near him
he disappeared in an instant, which
made me very uneasy and made me
stop and stay at house near all that
night. | think this white horse was
Christ, and He came to warn me of
my sins and make me fear and re-
pent."
Hare got eight years. While in
prison the vision already referred to
appeared
"One night about II o'clock, as lay
on my bed awake, / saw beautiful
sight such as | never saw before 1t
was beautiful woman, whose sweet
looks | was charmed to behold. She
told me her name was Hosanna, and
called me Joseph, and said she had
come as messenger OF peace to me.
am now going to the lake which
burns fire and birthstone, If I tell
lie."
After getting out of prison in FIVE
years because OF good conduct, he
went to Baltimore and engaged in
tailoring, but the low pay disguised
him and soon the lure of the old life
proved too strong. He joined another
robber at Boston and they travelled
from there through Maine with two
! men who were going to Canada. They
discovered that these men had large
sum of money in a trunk, so just
across the border they held them up
and got away with $14,7OO.
In New York city Hare conceived
a great liking for a pair OF horses
belonging to the governor. 'If he had
been poor man l should not have
taken them" he says in explaining
his lapse from virtue. He broke into
the governors stable one morning,
and, mounting one of the horses and
leading the other, he made for Tren-
ton. Near Trenton Bridge the led
horse bolted and got away from him,
but he rode the other all the way to
Washington and sold it there. Anoth-
er stolen horse which he was obliging
enough to dispose Of for friend got
him into Jail, and he only got out on
promising to enlist.
He became one of the presidents
guards, and even considered the FEAST
bility of kidnapping the chief execu-
tive and handing him over to the Brit
ish, whose sloops of war were at that
time near at hand. He fought and
got the better of man in another
regiment, who boosted that he could
whip any soldier in the army. Il did
not pull off my jacket" he says of
the affair. He then stole gig and
deserted, and after going to New
York for the winter he came to Phil
adelphia and became the manager of
band of thieves, who committed
common robberies."
Soon he married and went to Bos-
ton with the idea that he would give
up the old life altogether, but the loss
of his money drove him back to it
again, and, having sent his dear COM
panion" on to New York he robbed
a traveller outside of Princeton of
$3O,OC0 But he was soon taken and
given five years.
After serving two years he was par
doned and met in Philadelphia GER
tain Alexander, IAN honorable thief"
They planned to hold up the North
Carolina mail, and with Lewis Hare,
Joseph's young brother, they built
fence across the road three miles out
side of Hayre de Grace. When the
stage stopped at this obstruction, they
pointed their pistols at the heads of
and afterward tied them to some
trees, while they went through the
mail Hare was most polite to the
passenger. He told him that had he
only known that he was coming he
would have put of robbing the mail
till another night, and he begged Alex
ander to keep a little of the gin for
the driver and the passenger, but he
adds sadly, 1T was like trying to
keep child from honeycomb." Il
told him." he continues, referring to
the passenger, that his watch was
an elegant one, and put it back in his
pocket; he said it was family piece
and thanked me for my politeness.
Two mornings afterward at Balti-
more Hare records: Il had bought
one plaid cloak at the price OF S35.
and one cloak in the style Of an off,
Ger, very dashy, when we were arrest
ed by two men that the owner OF the
shop had sent for, being suspicious OF
orr appearance"