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

paper. In the first issue under his owner
ship the paper announced that it would con-
tain nothing in the way of Objectionable per-
sonallties, but the next number had COM
munlcatlon attacking me and charging that
was using the influence of the bank
TO 1EJURE uAYDEN's BUSINESS.
This was the first unkind thing that had
ever been said of me in the com munity, and
it CALLED me terribly. That evening I 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 I 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 Auck-
shot, the following morning, and carried the
weapon with him to the bank. At noon he
carried it to and from 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,
SO 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 store he
WAITED FOR THE JUDGE TO APPEAR ~
on the street. AT half past five the latter
came out of the Office with bis 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 q sight draft
upon life, and the banker was successful in
the collection. Judge Hayden was carried
into thu Office by his partner, and died in
five minutes. Cochran returned to the vii
lage of Grand Rapids, and gave himself up
to the authorities. He was lodged in Jail for
the night, carefully guarded by host of
friends. Excitement grew to frenzy, and
few at Hayden's friends vainly attempted
to organize a lynching mob. Next day
Cochran waived examination, and was adj
mitted to bail, the amount of his bond being
$4,000.
It 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 Gate, of Stevens Point.
During the summer the two weekly news
papers of Grand Rapids, one Democratic
and the other Republican, carried on T.
THE B1TTEREsT KIND OF WARFARE
upon Hayden, and both were being prose
cuted by him for libel. Two weeks after
the shooting, the Office of the Reporter,
Jack Brundage's journal, was burned by an
incendiary, presumably one of the dead
Hayden's friends. The expulsion of the
inSro fropo tho Mooo~;n lo1oo .u.. -
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 seduoing q
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. : e.. T.
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 INDUCING 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, .s a-
and has shown herself to be far more Iowa.
BILE personagesthan 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
soon after the marriage of their daughter
with Cochran. The lady is 80 years of age,
Of slight build, with pale, finely formed
face, 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 Judge Hayden, substan-
italy 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. I can now sec 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 tr0u-
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 well-grounded statements concerning
unhappiness in Hayden's family in the past
and rumors of previous escapades on his
part, l am able to conclude that the sin
charged between the man and the woman
existed. Thedoubtfuf point regarding the
result of the trial comes with the con-
sideration that the murder was cold blooded;
that it was directly led to by slmple 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
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