The morning call., 1894-12-10
BLIXT CONFES SSED.
Told of Harry Hayward's
Grimes.
PLANNED THE GING MURDER
Fired the Shot That Killed the
Young Woman.
PLANNED THE GING MURDER
PLACED A TOOL IN HIS POWER.
Details of the Sickening Scheme to
Obtain the Fortune of the
Victim.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec. 9.-It the
confession voluntarily made by Blixl, the
janitoT Of the Ozark fat, in the presence
of Mayor Euslis, the County Attorney and
the Chief OF Police to-day is true. Harry
Hayward fired the shot that killed Cath
crime Cling, and Blixt assisted him in dis
posing or the body. Blixt told of his first
conversation with Hayward about one
month before the murder. 1t was in re-
gard to either the holding up or the killing
Of q Chicago man who had loaned Hay
ward $4,000, the object being to regain pos
session of any paper which the man might
have as an evidence of Hayward's indebt-
edness.
Blixts Ignorance prevents him from Civ
ing an Ineligible idea of just what the
transaction was to be, further than that
there was to be a holdup or a murder.
Hayward proposed 10 send Blixt to Chi
cago and 10 have him return from that
city when he was wanted. Blixt refused
to 90 into it and says that Hayward went
TO Chicago himself. -
Upon returning from Chicago. Hayward
brOached another scheme to him-that of
setting fire TO barn. He induced Blixt
to commit the act, thus securing peniten-
tiary hold on the man. 1t was shortly
after this that the scheme to murder Miss
Cling was broached. Hayward told him
she was completely in his power and that
she would do anything he told her to do.
When the scheme of killing her was men,
toned Hayward told him that by killing
her he would regain possession of $1,000
which he had given her, and in addition
would make $4,000, as she had "willed"
her life insurance to him. He offered
Blixt one-fouTth Of the amount if he would
commit the deed. Blxt still refused to
have anything to do with the crime and
threatened to quit then and there, where
upon Hayward stated he would do it him
self. s&y;ag.
'I woutS as soon kill her as 1 would a
dog" This was about a week ago. In his
confession Blixt makes no reference TO the
ride Miss Cling took November 81. Hay
wards first plan, after he concluded to
commit the crime himself, was outlined to
Blixt There was in the basement "T"
rail about two feet in length. Hayward
directed the janitor to cut this in two,
stating he would take Miss Cling riding
and no one would see him with her. After
he struck her over the head with the iron
bar, which he would carry concealed under
his coat, he then intended to throw the
body out of the buggy against & curb
stone, start his horse on a gallop, and then
tell the story of a runaway accident. He
calculated that the body would appear to
have been thrown from the buggy when it
collided with the curb.
On Monday night Hayward met Bixt
and by threats and persuasops and prom
ises OF money induced him to be a partner
in the crime TO the extent of aiding in the
DISPOSAL of the body and make it easy for
Hayward to commit the crime and return
unobserved into the city. so that it would
appear that by no possibility he could
have been the guilty party. Hayward
directed BliXt to proceed at 80 P. NJ. to
the point Oh the Excelsior road where the
body was found and there to await his
coming Blixt followed out his instruc-
tions to the letter. He had been at the
point designated about i've minutes when
lie heard a shot and saw wagon approach
ing. AS it drew up be recognized Hayward
as the driver Hayward said to him:
'It is all done. jump in and drive back
slowly and give ME plenty of time to get
back to town, and do not leave her until
you make sure she is dead. Hayward got
out of the buggy and Bixt got in. The
woman was on the left-hand side Blixt
did not look at the woman, and the only
way that be inferred that she was dead
was because she did not move. He drove
up the Excelsior road a short way, then
alighting, started the horse and took a
streetcar into the city. The horse. he
SAYS, started off slowly and then broke
into a trot. Hayward arrived at the Ozark
fats at z 80 and at As was the house of
G. J. Bartelson, from where he took Miss
Bartelson to the theater.
Several hours after having made the
foregoing confession Blixt called the
Mavor and Chief of Police to his cell and
said that he fired the fatal shot himself.
He then went on to tell that Hayward had
persuaded Miss Cling that green goods
could be easily circula ted through the me-
dium of her business as a dressmaker
She fell IN with the idea, and when on the
night of the murder Hayward told her
that he had arranged for her to meet a
Rreep-goods dealer on the outskirts of the
CITY they started off on the ride together.
They met BliXt, and Hayward induced
her to let Blixt drive her to the place If
meeting, with the assurance to her that
he would himself follow Immediately in
another buggy and be- present at the meet
Ing. Blixt then drove the woman out on
the Excelsior road and shot her. The body
was then disposed of as stated in the pre-