The Yellowstone journal., 1894-12-10
Modday, December, 10. 1894.
MURDER WILL our.

committed IN Minneapolis that to all
appearances hid fair 70 become one of
the undiscovered crimes e the age Miss
Catherine Cling. good looking young
woman, % years old. conducting a fash
ionable dressmakng establishment and
believed 10 be in prosperous circum-
stances, was enticed to take a lonely
drive in the outskirts of the city and
there murdered by being shot through
the head. Collateral testimony fixes the
time of the shooting at about O'Clock
p. IN. and a short time after wards man
returning from his work in the city,
found the body. still warm and bleeding,
lying in the road. His first idea Was
that she was the victim Of runaway.
he having met a horse and ouggy going
at runaway pace Just few minutes
before but on eyamIng the disposition
of the body, he became satisfied that it
had not been thrown from a runaway
vehicle but had been lifted out and
somewhat carefully iacei on d robe in
the roadway. In due time the authori-
summoned and the -emains taken to the
morgue. where for he first time 1t was
discoveyed that raurder had been com
mitted. Then came the hunt for clues
to the crime ana its perpetrator 1t
transpired that the murdered woman
had been popular character with
class of men who occupy a respectable
position in social and business circles
but who are not averse to taking IA
night off, occasionally with female com
panions who are not too prudlsh. and in
consequence the circle of Miss Ging's
acquaintances was found TO be SO ex-
tended that social upheaval and the
ripping open Of many secrets was deemed
TO be sure result of any investigation
of her habits and intimates; but while
this result did, TO certain extent fol-
low, suspicion was almost Immediately
directed against one Harry L. Hayward
whose relations with the dead woman
extended to financial transactions which
might produce in him, an interest in her
death Hayward is one of that class of
young men about town. SO numerous in
in the twin cities, whose parents becom-
ing suddenly rich during the boom of
shout fourteen years ago. brought their
sons up to do nothing, and for a time
supplied them liberally with money.
But the times have pinched since then
and while the ability of the parents to
furnish an allowance became more and
more restricted, the expenses of the
young princes we're in no way curtsiled.
Such conditions can only result in one
OF two ways; either the young spend
thrift must reform, or else he will seek
doubtful and in time criminal ways of
procuring the money he must have,
Harry Hayward was about the age Of
the woman who was murdered. He had
known her for several years and had at
times been quite attentive, but latterly
the relations between them had been
more business than social. When an
investigation Of Hayward began the
officers were surprised to learn that he
had very recently loaned Miss Cling
sum aggregating $500 for security on
which he had had her life insured for
$4,000 in his favor. 1t was sought TO
be shown that she intended embarking
in business on larger scale with this
money but no very reliable test
mony was mad On this point, and
a doubt soon settled on the mat
ter Of these loans. As notes
signed by NJ iss Cling were produced ag-
gregating the amount claimed to have
been loaned, 1t had to be admitted that
she had received value for them but as
It also transpired that she had not used
any of the money, and had not deposited !
it in a bank to her credit as she was in |
the habit of doing with the funds that |
accumulated in her business. suspic.
ion was formed that the money that |
had been loaned to her was green |
goods" and that she had been persuaded
not to put il in the bank-as exposure
would Immediately follow-but to put
the actual cash In a safety deposit vault
and il was ascertained that she had
rented drawer in a safety deposit con-
cern, and on the afternoon of the day
she was killed had visited the place,
and presumably removed the money"
10 the drawer was found to be empty
when examined, the day after. 1t also
transpired that three times within the
past two weeks, Miss Cling had hired a
horse and buggy for an early evening
drive. starting alone, and on the first
two occasions returning alone after
having been out an hour or 30, the third
Of these mysterious trips was taken on
the fatal Monday night. when she had
the rig brought to her at the West
hotel and started from there alone about
half past seven in the evening. At nine
o'clock, the horse and buggy came into