Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1877 — The Captured Outlaw for whnm the Rewards Aggregate $20,000. [ARTICLE]

The Captured Outlaw for whnm the Rewards Aggregate $20,000.

(Dallas (Texas) Herald.] His father was a preacher who lived in southwest Texas. As a boy he was remarkably quiet, and gave no evidence of the terrible passions which, in after life, made him thirst for bKod. When almost sixteen years of age, and while the state was’finder military rule, a darkey on his father’s place provoked him, and he shot him. For this he was arrested and placed under guard of some soldiers who started to Huntsville with him. As he was onlv a boy they did not watch him very closely, and at night lay down to sleep. Hardin arose in the night and killed every one of them. This outlawed him. His next act was the murdfer of Jack Helm, out of which grew the Sutton and Taylor troubles, Hardin siding with the Taylors. His father and brother got up and were taken out and hung in western Texas. From this time on he was a desperado of the worst order. Missouri and Kansas became the field of operation, and before he left them he added many more to the d?ath list. In those states lhere are at present large rewards offered for him. From there lie cuine back to Texas, and kept the border in a state of terrorism. His last murder was the killing of Webb, the deputy sheriff of Brown county’ at Comanche. It is estimated that in various sections of the ceuntry there are over twenty thousand dollars of rewards offered. Hardin is a young man about twenty-seven or twentyeight years of age, five feet eight inches and one-half in height, weighs one hundred and fifty pounds, has flaxen hair, blue eyes, and not an unpleasing countenance.