The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-08
INSURANCE BUTCHBRY.
The Mystery Of Catherine
Ging's Murder Fully
Solved.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. s, 1S94-The mys-
terry surrounding the Catherine Cling
murder is beginning to unfold. Adry
Hayward has confessed and his story
links together his brother and two miser-
able hirelings in a chain of unexampled
and unspeakable villainy. Adry Hay
ward fought to prevent the commission
of the crime He has technically guilty
knowledge of it, but will appear in
much better light than his brother. AS
sstant County Attorney Hall, County
Attorney Hall, County Attorney Nye
and Mayor Eustic told the story at an
early hour this morning The mere out
line can be given.
Mr.. Hall says:-"On Tuesday, Decem-
Der 5, L got letter from Elder Stewart
advising me that three days before the
murder was committed, Adry Hayward
had come to him and told him that he
feared that his brother was going to
commit a crime told him about the in
surance policy on Miss Ging's life and
the pretended loan, and the arrange
ment had been made to kill Miss Cling
to get the life insurance. The whole
thing was so monstrously incredible
that the. Elder took no stock in it and
'ee7SsNA
and a rogue, he was not fool and dis
missed Adry with the belief that it was
all big talk. Since that time our play
has been for Adry and we have sue
ceeded in procuring corroborative evil
dence of most of these facts But Adry
in an attempt to break him down yester-
day, showed as much nerve and was as
smooth and evasive as Harry was when
he made his first bluff.
'From information coming largely
through Sheriff Eye, corroborated facts
already learned, warrant was sworn
out by me at about noon yesterday for
the arrest of Charles Blixt, the engineer
at the Ozark Flats. Last night, while
Mayor Eustis and members of his force
were pumping Blixt and his wife and
Erickson Adry was confronted by the
evidence and broke down and told what
he knew. His story reveals record of
deliberate planning in which the brother
Adry was not party, but in which
Harry sought to draw him into the plot.
And he fought to dissuade the brother
form his apparent criminal design. 1t
was when he feared things had reached
a point that was likely to result in the
crime perepetrated that he went to the
Elder and asked what he could do to
stop it. Expostulation, pleading, even
| threats of exposure, were unavailing.
Adry feared for his own life. The broth
er has long exerted great influence
over Adry ALMOST hypnotic. He exerted
| the same influence over the murdered
girl. The facts learned from Adry are
| amply oorroborated by outside facts
gathered together in the last two days.
Blixt and the man who has assisted
him in the matter of clothes and in get
ting away with the clothes. named
| Erickson, were arrested and placed in
custody at an early hour this morning.
The Grand Jury will have the next
chapter.
"The long and short of this horrible
story is that the poor girl was murder
ed for the insurance Harry Hayward
| had on her life She was decoyed on
| the lonely road by Blixt, shot by Blixt
and Erickson got the bloody clothes
| which he took to Iowa. The revolver
| was found in the Ozark Flats this morn
! ing 1t was 3S-calibre and two chambers
were empty