The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-12-13
BLIXT'S STORY.
He First Accuses Harry Hayward Of
Miss Ging's Murder,
And Tells of Other Deeds Hayward Plan
ned-subsequently Blixt Took Another
Turn and This Time Confesses That
He Himself Was the Murderer.

MINNEAPOLrs, Mimi, Dec. TO- Still
another confession has been made in
the Catharine Cling murder case. 1t
has been the theory of the police that
Theo. Blixt, engineer of the fats where
both Miss Cling and Harry Hayward
resided, committed the murder at the
instigation of Hayward. Sunday Blixt
broke down and made complete con-
fession, in which he charges Harry
Hayward with committing the MUIR
der.
According to his story he was sent
by Hayward to the scene of the murder.
Hardly had he arrived there when Hay
ward drove up with Miss Cling. When
within fifty feet of him the shots were
fired, and Hayward alighted from the
buggy.
1.-The deed is done," said he, ''get in
and drive it around until it is dead and
then dump it out"
Blixt took Hayward's place in the
buggy and drove along the road for
about a mile until he became satisfied
that Miss Cling was dead. Then he
drove back, and when near the place
where the murder was committed,
rolled the the body out of the buggy
into the road. He then drove about a
mile until he reached the Lyndale av-
enue car line. Then he turned the an
imal loose and took a car to town. The
horse went direct to the stable, and
this was the first intimation that was
received that anything was wrong.
The murder, according to Blixt, was
committed shortly after o'clock, and
as soon as he got into the buggy Hay
ward walked to the Henne pin avenue
car line and then took the daughter OF
a prominent lawyer to the theater.
Blixt claims that the murder was
originally fixed for the preceding Sat
urday night, but circumstances were
such that it had to be abandoned
Hayward was to slug Miss Cling with q
| piece of railroad iron which Blixt haG
provided The body was to have beer
thrown over near the curb at stree
corner, the horse turned loose and the
buggy wrecked, for the purpose o:
| giving color to the theory that the
woman had been killed in runaway
This plan, Blixt said, could not be car
ried out successfully, and it was decid
ed to shoot her.
Blixt tells of several other jobs
which had been proposed by Hayward
but which fell through, and says thai
after this job, for which he was to re
ceive So, 900, or one-ffth of the life in
surance involved, he was also to re
ceive $4OO for ''doing' her.
The man who hid the bundle o
clothes is believed to have been a dup
and will be released from custod
Monday.
Blixt Sunday night told story t
the effect that Harry Hayward wante
his assistance in disposing of tn
father and mother of a young woma
ia Minneapolis, whom he wanted t
marry, to secure her property.
| About midnight Sunday night BliS
made another confession, in which h
said that he himself committed tn
murder. Hayward had interested Mis-
Cling in green goods business, an
drove with her from the West hous
until they reached the corner of Her
nepin and Franklin avenues, abor
two miles from where the murder wa
committed. There they met Blk
whom Hayward pushed into the bugg
with instructions to drive where the
would meet Hayward, who would ha,
the goods with him.
Previous to that Hayward had il
duced Miss Cling to intrust what none
she had to him. IT is stated that Mi
Cling drove around the end of the LAX
and that she became anxious and b
gan to ask about Hayward. When the
reached the scene of the murder 81
was looking out of the side of the bu
gy, and while an this position Bli,
shot her. He drove about the countl
an hour, and when he was satisfied th'
, she was dead, he threw the body ol
and went home.
Blixt also tells wild story abo,
being engaged by Hayward to set fl
to the Ozark hats. Blixt had been to
by Hayward to take Miss Ging's sea
skin cloak, and after few weel
; pawn it to- give color to the theory tn
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