St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-09


the attempts of his brother to ind uce
him to Kill Miss Cling. To this Mr..
Hayward replied:
II hardly like to speak about that.
You know it is my brother l am talking
of. and it is painful to relate these con-
VersatiOnS"
But few more questions and very
little. urging finally
LOOsened Eayward's Tongue.
and he started out to talk. speaking
with such rapidity as TO require the
closest attention and the sharpest ear.
Ever since the early part of Septem-
Der Harry has acted strangely. About
that time he began talking to NE about
doing people who had money. He
would say that it was the easiest thing
IN the world to do a person, get his
money and escape detection l was
Mortified. and told Harry that l wouldn't
listen to him talk that way any more.
Then he would get mad at me and walk
away. Four or five days OF a week
would pass before he would broach the
subject again to me, but every time he
did refused to listen to him. Finally
L threatened to speak TO father about 1t
if he did not quit. This angered him
very much, and he told me I dare not
tell anybody about it, and warned me
not TO. During all this time he had not
said word to me about Miss Cling. 1t
was in the neighborhoOd of three weeks
ago that he first mentioned her name to
me. One day while | was sitting in his
office in the Ozark building Harry said
to me:
"'Adry. don't you want to make
$4,000?
"'HoW?' said l.
The Horrible Su question
BY helping me to get rid of Ging.'
~ was Mortified at the proposal. but
Harry didn't give me chance to say a
word. Before could speak lie unfold
ed his plan. His scheme was for me to
shoot Miss Cling. He said he would de-
coy her away to some lonely spot, and
at the proper time l was to shoot her.
No one would suspect me. and as for
him there was no danger, as dead peo~
pie tell no tales. The $4,000 would be
mine, he promised, as soon as the deed
was done. He made this offer to me. he
explained, because it was a good idea
to keep the money in the family.
Il was so startled by the proposition
that could scarcely speak at first. Then
told Harry that had heard enough of
this talk. and that [ would report the
matter to the police. This made him
fearfully angry. He threatened to kill
me if did. l said You will hang for
it if you do As said this. Harry got
up, threw off his coat, rolled up his shirt
sleeves and approached my chair. His
face was so distorted with rage that I
scarcely would have known him. Pm a
pretty husky and nervy fellow myself,
but 1 trembled with fear, for Harry al
ways had strange influence over me.
as he did over everybody who knew him
we'll. He stretched out his hands close
to my face and
CIutched the Air
With his fingers, as though he
would strangle me. But gradually he
cooled off. and finally told me that no
body would believe word / might say
against him, as it was only his oath
against mine.
1.-Two or three times after this" cou-
tlnued Hay ward, who by this time was
wrought to high pitch of excitement,
and was talking with much haste, ''Har-
ry threatened to kill me if | betrayed
him, until was reduced to a constant
state of terror. l was so frightened that
| never went to bed in my apartments
at the Ozark without hanging a chair
on the door knob of the hall door and
otherwise securing it, for Harry had q
paSs key that would admit him to any
fiat in the building"
Asked if he was afraid his brother
would kill him Hayward hesitated, and
then answered that he was not so much
afraid of his brother as he was of some
one else his brother might employ.
He then went on to tell of his broth
er's hypnotic powers. After relating
how completely Harry had hypnotized
his father, Adry said:
Harry exercised strange influence
over all people he talked to. Even
Elder Stewart acknowledged to me that
the boy affected him whenhe spoke
with him. After | became convinced
that Harry meant to carry out his plot
against Miss Cling, told Elder Stewart
of il, but
Mr. Steayvrt Only Laughed,
uuu OAlI' LCb llAC OOg iDulUCI Il lIOu~
sand servant girls or dreSsmakerS if he
thinks there's money in it. You ought
to know better than to take any stock IN
such story. You don't suppose Harry
is such fool, do you, as to tell you this
if he really meant to do it?'"
AIRY paused long enough for breath
here to enable the reporter to ask him
TO state when it was that Harry last
spoke to HIM about the conspiracy. This
question somewhat confused Hayward.
At first he thought it was on the Tues
day before the murder, or murder
day." as he significantly expressed it
no, it was Wednesday-maybe it was
Thursday. Before the reporter finished
questioning him Hayward admitted that
Harry had reminded him of the coming
tion, and also OH the Sunday and Satur-
day preceding. But it was Tuesday, he
said, that Harry first spoke to him of
BliXt, the engineer.
Harry told me-" continued Adry,
THAT he had cinch on that BliXt. lie
said that be had papers and atfidavits
that would land BliXt in Saltwater any
time he wanted to lay them before the
authorities. He then informed me that
he had hired BliXt to do the job for a
certain sum of money. He said he was
sure BllXt was the right man TO 90 X,
and wouldn't weaken when the time
came"
BY way of demonstrating the entire
Fitness of NLr. BIfxt
for his job, Haywa related the fol-
lowing story his brother told him:
1.-The next day after Harry had spOk-
en- TO me about hiring Brooks" SAID
Adry, "he said to me, with smile on
his face:
"'You remember what l told you
about BliXt? Well. yesterday Cling was
riding down on the elevator BliXt
happened to be in the car, too. He says
that when she looked at him with her
big calf eyes he felt like smashing her
in the mouth"
Hayward then proceeded with his
narrative as follows:
"On the Saturday evening before
murder day my brother said TO me,
You'd better let yourself be