Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-28
HARDY MADE PRISONER
CoIored Man Who Helped
Hold Up Farmer Is in Jail at
Cumberland, Md.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Nd. November 2S-
Angie l.. Hardy. colored, who was with
his brother, French Hardy, killed last
Saturday in the attempted hold-up of Lee
{. 1nskeep, farmer, near Romney, w.
Va, was captured in Cumberland about
o'clock this morning without trouble
after having eluded posses since the crime
was committed. He was arrested by
Chief of Police Irwin at the car barn
while on an interurban car. The police
had a tip that a suspect was on the car
travelling in this direction. Hardys
bandaged hand gave him away, and
when taken into custody he at once adj
mitted his identity and talked freely Of
the crime.
He is small in stature. twenty-five years
old. and is fairly intelligent, having taught
school two years in Hampshire county
and one year in Mineral county, West
Virginia Only q week ago he said he
arrived home from Columbus. Ohio.
where he had been working as a laborer
vania railroad. He met his brother.
French Hardy. who had previously worked
with him in Columbus. Prior to this
meeting the attempt to rob Inskeep was
not thought Of:
Often Saw His Pursuers.
Hardy says he often saw his pursuers,
and that yesterday two men with shot
guns suddenly came upon him in the
mountains near Green Spring. W. Va.
They were out hunting. but Hardy
thought they were after him. Early this
morning he took Baltimore and Ohio
freight train from Green Spring to Key
ser. and then walked to Piedmont. where
he boarded a Cumberland and Western
port trolley car to Cumberland Hardy
denies that he held up Harry Flock. Bal
timore and Ohio operator, in tower west
of Piedmont Tuesday night. He says he
was never west of Piedmont, and only
arrived in Piedmont this morning.
Hardy says he did not come to Cum
berland with the view of giving himself
up. but thought he would probably be
detected and would thus fall into the
hands Of officers who would protect him
and not permit lynching. This he felt
sure would occur had he been arrested
in the vicinity of the scene of the crime
Hardy says he heard the bloodhounds in
pursuit Of him and declared, Il tried to
see the dogs, but they travelled SO slow
could not wait on Them
Used Whiting for Disguise.
He says the whiting which he and his
dead brother used on their faces as a
disguise was grease paint which they had
been using in amateur theatricals; that
they had appeared in vaudeville concerts
before people Of their own color.
He said he had been in the woods so
long that he was footsore and nearly
worn out and arrest is relief. He
was shot by Inskeep with rifle previ-
Gus to Inskeep having used a shotgun
on his brother French. Hardy. was not
shot in the thigh. as reported.
Austrians Hold UP Countryman.
Hundreds of people saw the negro
in his cell. he sharing attention with
three Austrians who early this morning
had held up a countryman at Magnolia,
thirty miles east of here, securing $73
after badly beating him.
They were caught by the police in
South Cumberland, having escaped to
this city on a freight train.
1t is thought Hardy will be kept here
until he can be removed to some safe
prison in West Virginia. The Romney
Jail is small and insecure building,
which would easily yield to an attack
by a mob, and 1t is hardly likely, in
view of the ugly feeling that Gov Glass
cock will permit him to be taken there.
Hardy was married ten months ago. He