The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-12-13
BLIXT's STORY I! B
He First Accuses Harry Hayward OF
Miss Giag.s Murder.
And Tells OF other Deedis Hayward Plaza
ned-subsequently Hiixt Took Another
T urn and This Time Confesses That
/ He Himself Was the Murderer.

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1 .MIsNEAPoI.ls, Minn., Dec. 1o-Stul
fanother confession has been. made in
THE Catharine Cling murder case. It
has been the theory of che 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 Btixt
broke down and made aseomplete con-
fession, in which he charges Harry
Hayward with committing theafni ]
| der. So
:. According to his story he was sent
by Hayward to the scene ofthe murder.
Hardly had he arrived there when Hay
ward drove up with, Miss Cling. When
within Fifty feet of him. the shots were
fred, and Hayward alighted from the
buggy.
.:The deed is DONE" said he, ''get in
and drive it around until it is dead and
then dumpit ont"
| 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
mile until he reached the Lyndale av-
/ enue car line Then he turned the an
| imal loose and took q 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 Z o'clock, and
as soon as he got into, the buggy Hay
ward walked to the, Henne pin avenue
car line aud then took the daughter Of
PROMINENT lawyer to thcatheater.,
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 had
provided. The body was to have been
thrown over near the curb at street
corner, the horse turned loose and the
buggy wrecked, for the purpose OF
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 shoos her, ~. f{
Blixt tells Of several other jobs
which had been proposed by Hayward,
but which fell through, and says that
after this job, for which he was to re-
ceive S., 900, or one-ffth of the life in
surance involved, he was also to re-
ceive $500 for doing her.
The man who hid the bundle OF
clothes is believed to have been tdupe
and will be released from custody
Monday. vi @fax
Blixt Sunday night told story to
the effect that Harry Hayward wanted
his assistance in disposing Of the
father and mother of a young woman
in Minneapolis, whom he wanted to
marry to secure her property.
About midnight Sunday night Bhxt
made another confession, in which he
said that he himself committed the
murder. Hayward had interested Miss
Cling in a green goods business, and
drove with her from the West house
until they reached the corner OF Hen
nepin- and franklin avenues, about
two miles from where the murder was
committed. There they met Blixt,
whom Hayward pushed into the buggy
with instructions to drive where they
would meet Hayward, who would have
the goods with him. 49, s2
Previous to that Hayward had in
duced Miss Cling to intrust what money
she had to him. 1t is stated that Miss
Cling drove around the end Of the lake,
and that she became anxious and be-
gan to ask about Hayward When they
reached the scene Of the murder she
was looking out Of the side of the bug
gy, and while in this position B1ixt
shot her. He drove about the country
an hour, and when he was satisfied that
she was dead, he threw the body out
and went home. ~.
| Blixt also tells a wild story about
being engaged by Hayward to set fire
to the Ozark fats. Blixthad been told
by Hayward to take Miss. Ging's seal
skin cloak, and after a few weeks
pawn it to give color to the theory that
| Mics :Gino had been robbed