Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-17

H.os~AAS5 - GAA0 way VI OOJoCtAO1aD40 toC-
sonalltles, but the next number had COM
munication attacking me and charging that
was using the influence of the bank
TO 1NJURE HAYDEN's BUSINESS.
This was tho first unkind thing that had
| ever been said of me in the com munity, and
it CALLED me terribly. That evening learned
the communication was written in Hayden's
| office. under his supervision. I made up my
mind that he had done enough in seducing
my wife and breaking up my home without
running his newspaper against me. It was
more than l would stand, no matter what
the consequences might be, and concluded
to put him out Of the way.''
| The shooting occurred in this way: Coch.
ran loaded heavy fowling piece with luck.
shot, the following morning, and carried the
weapon with him to tho bank. At noon he
carried it to and frora his residence with the
full determination to shoot his man on sight
Various citizens saw the gun in Cochran's
hands, and knew his object. Nevertheless
they made no effort to prevent the tragedy
80 high was the excitement of the commu.
nifty running over the affair. At O'Clock
in the evening the cashier crossed the bridge
into Centralia where Hayden kept his office
Sitting down in front of q store he
| WAITED FOE THE JUDGE TO APPEAR
on the street. AT half past five the latter
came out of the Office with his partner and
stood talking upon the steps. Cochran
| walked past them, so that they could see
HIM. When about fifteen PAGES off, he turn
ed, took quick aim and fred straight at
| his enemy's heart. It was sight draft
upon life, and the banker was successful in
the collection. Judge Hayden was carried
into the office by his partner, and died in
five minutes. Cochran returned to the vii
lage of Grand Rapids, and gave himself uI
to the authorities. He was lodged in Jail fol
the night, carefully guarded by a host oil
friends. Excitement grew to a frenzy, anG
a few af Hayden's friends vainly attempted
to organize a lynchiDg mob. Next day
Cochran waived examination, and was adj
mitted to bail, the amount of his bond being
$4,000.
1t is the general opinion that he cannot
be convicted, as two thirds of the county
are in full sympathy with him. He is ably
| defended. The prosecution is aided by ex
| Congressman Cate, of Stevens Point.
During the summer the two weekly news
papers of Grand Rapids, one Democratic
| and the other Republican, carried on
THE B1TTEREsT KIND OF A WARFARE
upon Hayden, and both we're being prose
cuted by him fer libel Two weeks after
the shooting, the Office of the Reporter
Jack Brundage's journal, was burned by an
1ncendlary, presumably one of the dead
Hayden's friends. The expulsion of the
judge from the Masonic lodge was in q
| measure owing to the influence of Brun-
dage, who caused the investigation to be in
| stituted. The trial was upon three or four
| different charges of unbecoming conduct,
the principal one being that of seducing a
master Mason's wife. The trial lasted
nearly all one night, and resulted in his
expulsion by vote of thirty three to five.
1t has been stated that these charges were
purely imaginary, and that the trial was un-
fair. This the Masonic authorities deny,
They assert that the examination was ex-
haustive and complete.
After discussing the whole affair with rep.
resentative citizens the reporter called upon
Mrs. Hayden. This lady publishes the En-
terprise, the paper purchased by her dead
husband, and will continue to do so until it
can be advantageously sold. She is possessed
of much grace of manner and person. The
trouble weighs heavily upon her mind. She
believes that her husband was innocent of
all the sins charged against him, except that
OF lndu'ging in too much strong drink, and
AYERS that Mrs. Cochran became infatuated
without the slightest encouragement from
him. No matter what is said of the muir.
dered man his widow is
MODEL OF DEVOTION,
and has shown herself to be far more Iowa
BILE personage.than the silly little thing who
bore such prominent part in causing the
scandal.
The next visit of the reporter was to Mrs.
Cochran, who continues to live with her
parents, the Darling family, who removed
from Glenn Falls, New York, to Wisconsin
with Cochran. The lady is 80 years of age,
of slight build, with pale, finely formed
face, a woman not capable of being either
very good or very bad, but one easily fiat
tered and easily led. After considerable hest
tation she described the manner of her
first meeting with Jadge Hayden, substan-
TALLY as given above. In the course of the
questioning, she said that she had long since
CEASED TO DENY
the charges. She admitted writing the letter
which her husband had intercepted.
"The only thing care to have the public
understand as coming from me-" said the
unhappy woman, ''is that the trouble did
not originate through any Intentional wick
edness on my part. can now see Mr..
Hayden's design from the very first, and I
cannot blame my husband for the course
that he has taken. This was our first trou-
ble."
A great many of the Hayden sympa-
thizers we're conferred with. They profess
to believe that Hayden was guiltless, and
charge that Mrs. Cochran began and kept up
the correspondence, against his wishes; that
his murder came about through the persist
ent plottings of political enemies.
By means of Mrs. Cochran's confession,
the result of the murder trial and the letter
in the possession of her husband, together
with we'll grounded statements concerning
unhappiness in Hayden's family in the past
and rumors of previous escapades on his
part, am able to conclude that the sin
charged between the man and the woman
existed. The doubtful point regarding the
result of the trial comes with the con-
aideration that the murder was cold blooded;
that it was directly led to by a SIMPLE news
paper attack, three months or more after
the actual wrong had been perpetrated; that
the commission of the murder wrecked an
other home, made an innocent woman a
widow and rendered three helpless children
fatherless.
Grand Rapids and the twin village of Cen
tralia are located upon the Wisconsin Valley
railway, fifty miles from Tomah, which is on