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THE TOW'DE'R THAT KILLS 
Power, Speed, Accuracy, Reliability. 
A Demonstration Before a Jury. 
Denver. Colo., March lf >.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Shooting his way out of prison is quite a sensational 
way to gain notoriety, but that is the manner in which 
Captain A. II. Hardy, one of the world’s greatest fancy 
ride and revolver shots, became known to the public. 
Captain Hardy is now located in Denver with a large 
cartridge company, and but few of his Denver friends 
and admirers remember the interesting incident which 
first brought him before the public as an expert marks¬ 
man. 
In shooting his way out of prison, he did not terrorize 
a sheriff or murder a jailor, nor even attempt to shed 
blood, but the manner in which he escaped a term in 
jail in a little town in Nebraska in 1895, not only made 
him friends, but established one of the most interesting 
anecdotes of Western court procedure. 
Shooting was a hobby with Hardy even when he w r as 
a small boy, and. by the time he had reached the age of 
sixteen he was beginning to attract some attention as a 
marksman. It was then that he and his brother. E. E. 
Hardy, who was also a crack shot, decided that they 
would take a trip westward from Columbus, Neb. Be¬ 
ing short of cash, they decided to make use of the side- 
door Pullman instead of paying railroad fare. 
Everything went well until the boys reached Hyannis, 
a little town in western Nebraska, where an over- 
important brakeman demanded a little cash from them 
before he w'ould let them ride over his division. The 
amount asked w r ould have left the boys without money, 
so they decided to take chances on stealing a ride be¬ 
tween the cars. They agreed that in case either of them 
was put off the train, he would fire a signal shot to 
notify the other, in order that they might not become 
separated. 
Shortly after leaving the station at Hyannis, a brake- 
man spied young Hardy hanging on a ladder on the side 
of a car, and swooped down on him without warning and 
began to strike at him with his heavy lantern. Hardy 
was forced to drop from the train, and after falling and 
rolling down an embankment, he drew his revolver and 
fired the signal shot to notify his brother, as they had 
agreed, that he had left the train. His brother also 
dropped off and fired an answering shot to let the other 
know his signal had been heard. 
That is where the trouble began. The brakeman, 
thinking the young men were shooting at him, went 
into the next town and swore out a warrant for their 
arrest, charging assault with intent to kill. It was a 
serious proposition. They were arrested at Alliance, and 
taken back to Hyannis by the sheriff. They secured bail 
and went to work until the time for the trial to come 
around. In the meantime, A. H. Hardy had taken ad¬ 
vantage of every opportunity to demonstrate his ability 
with a revolver, and before the next term of court 
opened, he had gained a wide local reputation as a 
marksman, and had made many friends. Hyannis in 
those days was a rough Western town, where every 
cowboy, ranchman and most of the townspeople ad¬ 
mired a good shot as much as they did a good rider. 
The time for the trial finally came around, and it 
aroused a great deal of interest. People came in from 
all directions to hear the testimony. The railroad was 
represented by its able attorneys, who were determined 
to make an example of the two gun-men. The Hardy 
brothers secured the services of a bright young lawyer 
of Alliance by the name of Mitchell, who put up a 
strong fight for his clients. Heated arguments were 
made by the attorneys on both sides, and the case sim : 
mered down to the question as to whether Hardy was 
really shooting at the brakeman or as a signal. The case 
began to look discouraging' for the two brothers. 
“Your Honor,” said Hardy’s attorney to the judge, 
“we contend that if the defendant had shot at this 
brakeman there would be no brakeman here to tell the 
story, and if you will adjourn court for a few moments 
and take the jury in charge of a bailiff to the rear of the 
court house, I will demonstrate to the satisfaction of 
the judge, jury and the attorneys for the prosecution 
that my contention is right.” 
Judge Thompson granted this request, and after the jury 
had lined up on one side with the judge and the attorneys 
and a large crowd of spectators on the other, A. H. 
Hardy was given the revolver he had used on the night 
of his arrest, and with this he gave a most remarkable 
demonstration of his marksmanship. He cut playing 
cards held edgewise between the fingers of his brother 
at a distance of twenty-five steps; shot potatoes off his 
brother’s head, and broke small lumps of coal tossed 
in the air. A dozen gun-wads were pinned to his broth¬ 
er’s hat, and each one was knocked off by bullets with¬ 
out touching the hat-brim. Other equally difficult tests 
were successfully demonstrated before the jury. 
Upon returning to the court room, Hardy’s attorney 
addressed the jury, and again declared that if the young 
marksman had been shooting at the brakeman there 
would have been a different story to tell, and the brake- 
man was forced to admit that no attempt had been 
made to shoot him. The jury went out for a few 
moments and brought back a verdict of “Not guilty.” 
The trial at that time was given wide publicity, and 
papers far and wide published pictures of a jury watch¬ 
ing a shooting test. Hardy’s friends rallied to his sup¬ 
port, raised a fund to start him in the saddle and har¬ 
ness business, and from that time on he prospered and 
became known a^ one of the best shots in the West. 
Few of Captain Hardy’s present admirers remember 
the time sixteen years ago when he shot his way out 
of jail. Wm. A. Bartlett. 
Seventh Regiment Championship. 
The season’s rifle shooting over the Seventh Regiment 
ranges in the armory at Park avenue and Sixty-seventh 
street, came to an end Friday night, March 31. Final 
figures for the season showed, that Private J. K. Boles, 
of Company I, had won the regimental rifle champion¬ 
ship by the closest possible margin over Private A. 
SHioD. of Company A Private Scholz, in taking the 
title last year, established a new record total of 115 
