The morning call., 1894-12-09

the girl without hanging for it. Harry
grew very angry at Adry's repeated oppo-
sltlou and finally threatened to murder
him If he resisted. 1t was not until three
days before the day of the murder that Adry
realized that the plot was still incubatiug.
1t was then that he told L, M. Stewart
of what he knew.
The object of Harry's visit to Adry's
apartments on the night of the murder
was os ensibly to confer with him regard
Ing paltry matter of So. 1t was in reality
to warn him to plant himself so he could
prove an alib. This Adry did. Harry's
words were: You had better be with
your folks. Something may happen"
Adry then went to the resid ence of his
ia her-in-law. and was next visible after
the reports OF the tragedy had reached the
flats. BliXt, the engineer, is said TO have
been Implicated in the burning of build
ings In the insurance OF which the Hay-
wards were interes ted. It has developed
that Blixt left the flats at o'clock on
Monday night and returned at 10. Blixt
had formerly been driver on a stree tear
and had q car-driver's oyercoat THIS
coat he sold to Ericsson, he claims. on Sat
urday. Ericsson was in the City Hospital
at the time and agreed to pay $5 for it.
The money. however. has not yet been
paid. After getting possession of the coat
Ericsson left for Iowa Falls. and while
there had the coat washed. He returned
10 Minneapolis.
1t develops, however. that the sale was
not made on Saturday. Ericsson left the
city on Tuesday. Prior to leaving he visit
I'D
where he inclosed two pairs of pants. a
shirt and other wearing apparel in paper
bag. which he took with him and left for
Iowa Falls that night He left Iowa Falls
on Wednesday night, and returned to Min
neapolis, rs stated, on Thursday morning.
When he returned he saw Harry and Blixt
talking together in the ensine-room, and
heard Harry give orders not to allow any
one to enter the place. He then went to a
pawnshop on Washington avenue and sold
the coat for 50.
Harry Hayward's apartments, a suite
Of rooms on the ground floor of the Ozark,
facing on HenDepin, were searched early
this morning by Sheriff Ege. Chief OF
Police Smith and Detectives Hoy and
Howard. Several spots of blood were dis
covered on the floor of a closet adjoining
the room in which Harry slept. Sheriff
Eye, after scraping one of the spots with
knife, turned to Detective Howard and
said: "The bundle of bloody clothes was
probably thrown On the closet floor aud
left there for the time being, until taken
away by Ericsson the following morning"
Detective John Hoy. who arrested Eric
son, stated that he had positive proof that
lofE
after the murder with a neatly wrapped
bundle containing the bloody clothes. He
stated that he took train for point in
Iowa, where the clothes were washed.
Whether the police have the clothes in
their possession could not be learned las.
night, but it is rumored that they have.
The motive in having the clothes washed
ana brought back to the city. il is claimed,
was TO evade suspicion, the owner wishing
to continue TO wear them. '@'-sa''-> sssssz
Officials who visited the fats were
armed with search warrant and they
first proceeded to search the old gentle
mans apartment on the top of the build
ing. Harry and Adry slept on the ground
f1oor-Rarry in a front bedroom and his
brother in room in the rear facing on
Thirteenth street 10 a table-drawer De-
tective Howard found Two rovolvers be-
longing TO Harry. One was a double
barreled revolver of the derringer pattern
and the other a 38-caliber Colts. Six
boxes of cartridges were also confiscatsd.
Harry's clothes were carefully examined,
but nothing startling was discovered.
Several notes from lady friends inviting
him to meet them at certain place for n
social time" were found neatly tied to-
gether in the bottom of the trunk. The
officers confscated a satchel containing a
lot of clothes belonging to the engineer.
and 1t is thought the clothes worn by the
murderer of Catherine Cling were among
the contents of the satchel.