St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-11
STEADY PLOTTER FOR PELF.
His Thoughts Run Constantly
Toward Putting People
Out Of the Way
THE LENA OLSON MYSTERY.
Things About It Which Indi-
cate That Hayward Killed
the Girl.

Murderer Bhxt's statement that
Harry Hayward had murdered two per-
sons before he plotted the death of
Kittie Cling is accepted as true, not only
| by people in position to know some-
| thing of the life and characters ties of
Hayward, but by the public at large,
which has come TO regard Hayward as
| fend Of the most soulless type. He
seemed bent on murder, and regarded
| the destruction of human life as the
most trivial thing imaginable.
I'VE are all out for the best of It," he
was wont to say, "and we are supposed
to get the long green no matter how we
| get it. One or two lives don't cut any
figure, anyhow. What's the differeuce?"
Hayward's attacks of bad temper we're
! frequent and are described as remark
a bly ferOciOus III nature. He would
storm like a madman, and his friends
often got out of his way for fear lie
would carry some of his threats into ex-
ecutiOn. For years he has lived a double
life, and he has lived in this way so long
that it has become perfectly natural for
him to assume various characters. One
| night he was gambler, and a rec kless
and game one, at that, The next night
he was bear IN all his actions, and
once aroused when drinking, was likely
to shy spittOOn or anything that came
handy at the head of friend. 1t mat
tered little to him on whom he wreaked
his vengeance if things did not go
to suit him. Again he was as
placid and quiet as summers day
and was really good mpanion. And
then few nights after he might be seen
faultleSsly attired and sitting in a box
at the theater with one of the incest
young girls in Minneapolis. 1t stands
to reason that the young lady with
whom he was seen at intervals in public
places knew nothing of the fiendish
character of her escort. What must
have been her feelings could she have
looked into the mind Of her handsome,
well-dressed escort. and known that
during the progress of the play he was
calmly plotting the murder of an inno-
cent woman. And this was undoubtedly
what he was doing when he sat in the
theater those several nights with one of
the Mill City's respectable young
ladies. The thought could not have
been absent from his mind, but
his nerve enabled him to carry On
light, easy conversation, as il the
thought Of taking human life was of
no consequence or not of sufficient mo-
ment to interfere with his evenings
pleasure. What nerve he must have
had to be able TO sit quietly in the the
ater the night of the murder and laugh
at the witticisms on the stage, all the
while knowing that poor Kittie Cling
was about to be or had been murdered
by his hired assassin.
Only man utterly devoid of soul
and humanity could have carried him
self as Hayward did. No man with the
semblance Of heart could have even
dreamed of destroying Kittie Ging's
life. to say nothing of laughing about
it afterwards. In the face OF all the
facts and the confessions of Murderer
BliXt, Hayward yesterday had the nerve
to say:
THAT murder was most mysterious
thing. l can't understand what Ted to
it or who did it. Perhaps 1t was done
for revenge; and yet 1 dOn't see how
that can be. for l never knew the wom-
an TO have an enemy"
From this and other remarks which
he has made it is inferred that Harry
Hayward will ''stand pat" and fight the
case to the bitter end. He was not
feazed by Blixt's confession. The story
only brought smile to his face. The
statement that he knew nothing of
Blixt's confession is false. He has read
the papers from beginning to end, and
he read them yesterday in the Ramsey
county Jail. He was unmoved If ne
realizes the awful position he occupies
he shows no signs of it, aud again is the
fellows wonderful nerve made appar-
ent.
He denies all his brother says with
relation to the conversation in which he
sought his brothers. aid in the murder
of Kitty Cling.
''All rot" he declares, then calmly
turns away and whistles softly to him
self. He makes the same statement
with regard to the stories told by Blixt.
'The fool cOntradlcts himself,v he
said, land will not be believed on tile
stand. His evidence is so shaky that it
will convict no one"
And yet there is not man, woman or
child in Minneapolis who will not say
plainly that there is no chance of es-
cape for Harry Hayward. He has led
remarkable life, and his friends feel
that now all his past transgressions will
come to light 1t is believed tn at Hay
ward has been guilty of countless
crimes.
1t is claimed that he is the murderer
of Mrs. Lena Olson, the poor woman
who was found dead on the shore of
Lake Superior last August. This Mrs,
Olson at one time lived in Minneapolis
near the Ozark fats, where resided kit-
tie Cling. Mrs. Olson. it is claimed, was
not only acquainted with Hayward, but,
also with an intimate friend of Hay-i
wards. She was supposed to have con-
siderable money. 1t was proved that
she had, and also that she was the pos
SCISSOR OF some property in addition To
the cash. One day she was Iured away
| to Duluth, and two days later her life
| lesf body was found OH the bsach some