The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-12-10
MISS GINGSMURDRRERS
No Doubt That the Misoreants Are
All Behind the Bars.
HAYWARD CHIEF ooNsPIRAToR.

The Murder was Planned to Secure Mis-
Ging's Life Insurance Money-The Con
fession Of Jan,tor Blixt, who Fired the
Fatal Shot at Hayward's Bidding.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 10-The confession
of Adry Hayward reveals the whole plot
by which Miss Catherine Cling, the dress
maker, came to her terrible death on the
shore of Lake Calhoun Monday night,
Her life had been insured, and she was
killed that her lover, Harry Hayward, who
instigated the crime, might realize upon
the policies, which had been transferred to
him. The whole plot was Matched up after
the publication OF the Holmes insurance
swindle, and.was unquestionably the out
growth of 1t.
Young Hayward, who is Of respectable
parentage, swell in society and the be-
trothed Of the daughter Of @. J. Bartle-
son, leading attorney, seems to have
had some strange control of Miss Cling.
No breath Of scandal had ever attached to
her name, yet since her murder 1t has been
developed that she was infatuated with
the man, and had repeatedly furnished
him large sums of money with which to
gamble, she being q partner in his enter
prises.
At first he let her win. She had given
him more than 81 900 at q time with which
to ''play the bank" but after the first play
or two he always lost. Finally, when she
had no more money, and when he was in
desperate straits, he suggested that she en-
bark in business on a larger scale.
He would furnish the capital-$7, 000was
the figure. He wo uld secure loan from
friend II she would insure her life In his
for Thfo IN did and tho
policies were transferred to Hayward.
Then she demanded the money. He gave
1t 10 her In counterfeit goods. The con-
troll which he had over her made it an easy
matter for him to induce her to deposit
the money in safety vault instead of
banking 10, where it's worthlessness would
be discovered, but she was Immediately at
forward SO determined upon embarking In
business that Hayward not only saw ex-
posture from the counterfeit money deal
staring him In the face, but realized as
well that he would lose the $4,000 insur-
ance on her life.
He at once determined upon her muir
der in order to secure the return of the
counterfeit money, as we'll as to realize
upon the life insurance, He called into
council his Sc nior brother. Adry A. Hay
ward and II rged him to join in the plot
Adry refused, but he, too, was under
Harry's spell, and when Harry threatened
to murder him If he made whimper Adry
subsidized. The plot, however, went on,
and Harry found willing tool In the per
son of Claus A. Blixt, engineer Of his
fathers flats.
Miss Cling had an Unsuitable greed for
money, and 1t is presumed that 1t was ar
ranged that the janitor was to drive her
to certain point to meet party, who in
some improper manner had come into pos
session of gold brick or some other treas
ure, which he could not safely dispose of,
being ignorant and afraid of arrest. This
/ treasure she was to purchase at a fraction
of its value.
The suspicion is that on this night Ole
Erickson, worthless fellow, who had been
hanging aboutth the fats, was to personate
the fugitive from justice with gold
brick or bag of diamonds. On Monday
night, when she took the third and last
trip, Miss Cling had her money with her,
and getting into the buggy at the West
hotel, drove out Hennipen avenue, taking
Blixt in near the Ozark flats. The two
drove together to an out Of the way place
on the lake and met Erickson.
A conference followed, and while Miss
Cling was leaning over the side of the
buggy talking with Erickson, Blixt, who
sat beside her on the buggy seat, applied
the pistol to her head and fired. The bull
let entered behind her right ear and lodged
In her left eye.
The unfortunate young woman was not
killed outright, and struggle ensued,
during which Blixt struck her over the
head with the butt of the weapon, quickly
producing Inconsistencies. Erickson,
meanwhile, stood by and witnessed the af-
fair, and after the woman's struggles had
ceased got into the buggy with Blixt and
drove to where the body was found.
The two men drove rapidly back to the
city, turning the horse loose near the
Ozark, the basement of which they en-
tered by the back door.
Blixt called Mayor Eustis and the chief
of police to his cell last night and con-
fessed that he fired the fatal shot He says
that Hayward had persuaded Miss Cling
that green goods" could be easily circu-
lated through the medium Of her business
as a dressmaker. She, having always had
an insane idea to get rich easily, fell in
with the idea
On the night of the murder Hayward
had told her that he had arranged for her
to meet green goods dealer on the out
skirts of the city. They started Off on the
ride together. About twelve blocks from
Ozark flats they met Blixt. Hayward in
duced her to let Blixt drive her to the
place of meeting, with the assurance tc
her that he would himself follow immed-
lately in another buggy and be present at
the meeting.
Blixt then drove the woman out to the
old Excelsior road, and called her atten-
ton to a passing object. As she turned
her head to look out of her side of the
buggy he shot her. Hayward, instead of
following Blixt returned to the Ozark fats
and afterwards went to the theater.
All of the conspirators are now In Jail,
and it is believed their conviction Is as
sured.
Another Murder for Insurance Money.
CHICAGO, Dec 10. = Sebastian Mayors
and John Goetz were arrested on a charge
of numbering Louis Peters in order to OBJ
tain an insurance policy on his life which
Peters had taken out In the Independent
Order of Foresters. The crime was COM
mitted on the night of March In a saloon
kept by Goetz, who was a prominent MEM
Der Of the Foresters and had organized a
lodge of the order. He persuaded Peters
to take out the insurance policy and in