The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-07
MISS GING'S MURDER.


MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 6.-The Catherine
Cling murder mystery is stiH unsolved. The
newspapers and the police have followed
up every clew with unremitting energy,
only to find themselves up against the
stone wall of mystery that hides the iden-
tity of Miss Ging's companion. The work of
piecing the torn note together which Miss
Cling received and tore to fragments on
the morning Of the day she met death has
progressed, but is not yet done. The waste
basket contained the fragments of num-
ber Of business communications and the
puzzle is intricate one. note. how
ever, has been partially fitted together on
which the words II will not marry you,"
are discernible. These words lend confir-
nation TO the theory that the deed was
one of passion or jealousy rather than of
robbery, and that the money on her person
al the time of the murder, estimated to
have been from $1,000 TO $4,000, was taken
as an afterthought 10 obscure the motive
for the deed.
The police are devoting themselves stead
lily to the task OF finding some one who
saw the mysterious stranger with Miss
Cling within a week of the murder. This.
stranger has come to be known as The
man with the iron grey mustache." Several
traces of him have BEEN found. The
night clerk at the Metropolitan Cafe, st.
Paul. remembers Miss Cling as having Wis
tied that cafe in company with "a gentle
of that description about three weeks
ago. They had supper together and some
thing to drink. They were quite merry and
the time slipped away so rapidly that be-
fore they knew Ii the last interurban elec-
trio car for Minneapolis had left and they
were. obliged to hire a cab and drive
there.
1t is believed that an occurrence Of Tues
day morning following the murder, which
has just been discovered, may yet prove to
have a bearing on the case. Miss Lillian
toria, a fashionable family hotel, left town
very suddenly and in a great hurry that
Of Miss 70 ns snd to hase
had serious quarrel with her which made
the two girls enemies. Miss Allen was
arrival of a certain trunk. When at last
ii arrived she had il taken to her room,
repacked it and at once set off for ST. Paul
trunks In her room which she left behind.
The trunk was checked on the Milwaukee
st; Paul road, and the baggagemasn man re- re-
len, he said, was In such "blistering
hurry that she could not wait for the
train. but took an interurban car: The
warning them about Miss Aliens character,
show 1t to Miss Allen She at once ex-
claimed that it was the deed of Miss Cling,
who she explained hated her. They had a
quarrel over Fred L. Reed, of st. Paul.
and were enemies. Reeds name has al
ready been brought into the case.
Later-Harry T. Hayward, the young bus
mess man whose relations with Catherine
Cling have been investigated from every
conceivable standpoint since Monday night
was tonight arrested on a charge of muir
der in the first degree. His brother, A. A.
Hayward, is also In the company of two
detectives tonight, and ii Is intimated that
he viii be formally taken into custody in
the morning. These steps have been taken
with great deliberation and after sitting all
of the evidence the theory which the
police are working is chiefly that of con-
spiracy to obtain the insurance money.