The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-12-13
THB&VlRD THUGS
RumOfsd Existence afah Organised
Gang Of Murdersrs..
PURIFIER ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED.

~>~~Ds~A'OD eh~&AeM tnu Eltb w men hes
suited in the Murder Of Pretty Gather
inc Gins-Another Mysterious Disap-
pearancs Charged Against Hayward.
MINNHAroLIs, Dec. 1s.-Harry Hayward
know Charles A. Austin, Of Albany, N.
T., who arrived in Minneapolis q year
ago with q certified check Of 1850 and
carried %, 600 life insurance. Austin was
engaged to q lady At Atlanta, Ca, and
Hayward accounted for Austin's absence
from Minneapolis later by stating that he
mad gone to Atlanta to be married. Austin
never reached Atlanta, and has never been
seen since. A body which was disfgured
beyond Identification was found in the
Mississippi river few days after Austin's
disappearance, and 1t is now thought to
have been Austin, and the theory Is adj
yanced that Hayward made away with
him.
The statement has been made that Harry
Hayward was engaged to be married to
the estimable daughter of q. j. Bartleson,
OF this city. This story has no foundation
In fact, Miss Bartleson having only pass
ing acquaintance with the man.
The Journal says there are probably
more arrests to come in the Cling case.
From the first it had been regarded as
well nigh incredible that Harry Hayward,
used as he was to playing for high stakes,
man who had often bet $4,000 on the
turn of q card, should enter into a con-
spiracy against this girls life for share
of only $40, 900 insurance. 1t has been con-
sidered of paramount Importance that tho
man who sent nots to Miss Cling on the
morning of the murder, from outside the
West hotel should be identified. The fact
that he has not come forward has inspired
the authorities with belief that he had
an important connection with the case,
and this man will have to be arrested be-
fore the state can regard its case against
Hayward as a good one
Hayward had q greater incentive than
has hitherto been supposed In desiring the
death of Catherine Cling. The young
woman is said on very good authority to
have had five insurance policies, instead of
ten, and each Of them was for 81, 600 Three
other persons besides Hayward were in the
plan for bringing about her death, and
these men have not yet been taken into
custody.
That no report has been made of the ex-
tstence Of other policies on Miss Ging's
life is not surprising, for the reason that,
presuming the conspirators are afraid to
demand settlement of their claims, the
companies with which the insurance is
placed will escape having topay the money
to the dead woman's heirs. This in itself
is a sufficient reason for silence on their
part, and especially as the policies were
obtained in the beginning with the evil
dent intent to defraud. Blixt is probably
aware of the completely of Others 1t Is
this knowledge that he conceals and which
the police have been diligently trying to
squeeze out of him.
Two detectives are shadowing the sus-
pectcd parties. None of the officials will
give the slightest hint as to who these pers
sons are. A diligent search is going on to
discover with what companies the remain
Ing insurance was placed, but no trace of
1t has been discovered At the same time
the authorities have information on which
an arrest might be made at any time The
intention in holding off Is TO secure evil
dencc that may be used as Il lever on the
men when they are taken in.
Evidence is now pretty well in hand
that Hayward was the local member of an
insurance gang. detective working on
the case has discovered that the methods
of this gang were to secure life insurance
on persons who could be induced to take
ont heavy insurance, on the representa-
ton that money could be borrowed on the
policies 1t would be plainly demon
strated to the insured that profitable
business could be carried on in this way.
The plan to murder Catherine Cling was
developed by four members of the gang,
of which Hayward was ono. These four
men were in Miss Ging's room holding a
conference with her on Sunday afternoon,
the day before the murder. The men en-
ployed by the insurance companies and
the local authorities in hunting up the
missing evidence are very reticent.
The grand jury has finished its investi-
cations Of the case, but no indictments
have yet been found