The record-union., 1894-12-10
KILLING OF MISS GISG.
Janitor Blixt Confasses That He Fired
the Fatal Shot.


! MINNEAPoLIs, Dec. 9.-If the confes-
! sion voluntarily made by Blixt, the
janitor of the Ozark flats, in the presence
of Mayor Eustis, the County Attorney
and the Chief of Police, to-day is true,
| Harry Hayward fired the shot that killed
! Catherine Cling, and BliXt assisted him
in disposing of the body. Blixt told OF
the first conversation with Hayward,
about one month before the murder.
1t was in regard to the either holding up
or killing OF a Chicago man who had
! loaned Hayward 500, the object being to
regain possession Of any paper which
the man might have as an evidence of
! hayward's Indebtedness.
BHXts ignorance prevents him from
giving an intelligible idea of just what
| the transaction WAS to be. further than
| that there was to be a hOld-up or a mur-
! der. Hayward proposed to send BliXt
to Chicago and have him return from
that city when he was wanted. BliXt re-
| fused to go into it, and saws HAYWARD
went TO Chicago himself. Upon return
ing from Chicago Hayward broached
another scheme TO him, that Of setting
| lire 10 barn. lie induced BliXt to COM
NIT the act, thus securing penitenliary
! hold on the man.
1t was shortly after this that the scheme
to murder Miss Cling was prompted.
| Hayward told him she was completely IN
his power, and that she would do any
thing he told her. When the scheme of
/ killing was mentioned, Hayward told
! him that by killing her he would regain
! possession OF 1000 which he had given
! her, and in addition would make $4,000,
! as she had 'willed her life insurance to
| him." lie offered BliXt One-fifth of the
! amount If he would commit the deed
Blixt still refused TO have anything to do
with the crime and threatened to quit
| then and there, wnereupOn Hayward
| stated that he would do it himself, say
ing: Il would as soon kill her rs
would dog" This was about week
ago.
IN his confession Blixt makes no refer
ence to the ride Miss Cling took Novem-
Der 9th. Hayward's first plan, after he
concluded to commit the crime himself,
was outlined to Blixt. There was in the
basement a "I'' rail about two feet in
length. Hayward directed the janitOr to
cut this i'll two, stating that he would
take Miss Cling riding, and no one would
see him with her. After he struck her
over the head with the bar, which he
would carry under his coat, he intended
throwing the body out OF the buggy, start
his horse into gallOp and then tell the
story OF a runaway. lie calculated that the
body would appear to have been thrown
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curb.
On Monday night Hayward met Blixt,
and personal threats and promises OF
| money induced him TO be partner IN the
crime to the extent Of aiding IN the dis
posal OF the body, ana make it easy for
Hayward to commit the crime and return
nobServed into the city, so that it would
appear that by no possibility he could
have been the guilty party. Hay
ward directed BnXt to proceed at
100 P. NJ. 10 the point on the
Excelsior road, where the body was
found, and there to await his coming.
BlIXt followed out his instructions to the
letter, lie had been at the point desig-
mated about nve minutes when he heard
Shot and saw a carriage approaching
As 1t drew near he recognized Hay
ward as the driver. Hayward said to
him: sit is all done. Jump in and driy e
back slowly, and give me plenty OF time
10 get back to town, and do not leave her
until you make sure she is Dead"
Hayward got out of the buggy and
Blixt got in. The woman was on the
lett-hand side. BliXt did not look at the
woman, and the only way that he in
terred that she was dead was because she
did not move. lie drove up the Excelsior
road piece, then, alighting, started the
horse and took Street-car into the citv
| The horse, he says, started OFT slowly
and then broke into q troJ. Hayward ar
rived at the Ozark flats at 7:30, and at $40
was at the house of q. j. Bartelson, from
where he took Miss Barielson to the
theater.
Several hours after having made the
above confession Blixt called the Mayor
and Chief OF Police TO his cell and said
that he fired the fatal shot himself. He
then went on TO tell that Hayward had
persuaded Miss Cling that green goods
could be easily circulated through the
medium of her business as dressmaker.
she fell III with the idea, and on the night
of the murder Hayward had told her that
he had arranged for her TO meet a green
goods dealer on the outskirts of the city.
They started OIL together. The met BliXt
and Hayward induced her 10 let BliXt
drive her to the place of meeting, with
the assurance to her that he would
himself follow in another buggy, and be
present at the meeting. Blixt then drove
the woman out on the Excelsior road and
shot her. The body was then disposed OF
as stated IN the previous confession.