St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-10
TIL e FIRST CONFESSION.
What the EcoundreI, Blixt. First
Told the Officers.


Told the Officers.
Following is the first confession of
Blixt. as detailed by Mayor Eustis last
evening at his office in the city hall:
Il saw Blixt about o'clock last even~
lug before going home. and asked him
If he was ready to talk. and he said
No l said You have got something
Oh your mind and | would be glad to
have you speak it out whenever you
feel like doing So He said he wouldn't
talk tonight, and | said All right, sleep
ii you can, but whenever you reach the
point when you can't sleep and must
speak, yOu will find somebody to talk
to-
Il went away then, and we spent two
or three hours with Erickson, and eyerv
little while the chief would 20 to see
BliXt TO see it he wanted to say anv-
thing, and he told him whenever he had
anything TO say he would like to have
him say it. | think he sent for the
chief three or four times, and when he
would get up there, instead of talking
or saying anything. he would say that
he wouldn't talk today.
then think it leaked out in some
way so that he understood that Adrian
Hayward had said that Harry had told
him, Adrian, that BliXt was to do the
shooting, and he began to see that they
were weaving net around him to prove
that he had fired the shot, and suppose
after he had thought of that, why he
sent for the chief about , o'clock. and
the chief went over and he told him
that he would like 10 talk, and he would
like to have the mayor present also. So
l went over and he then told this sto ":
He went into the full details OF tbs
matter and told about how Harry had
been sort of pursuing evil spirit to
him and had gotten him to do quite a
number of different things. One was
how Harry wanted him TO 20 to Chicago
and Kill man that Harry owed S4OO to:
that the scheme was that he would 90
and get the man and take him out for
drive in buggy. and he said: Il will
pay hlm the money and you will be
around there and at a certain time show
up, and L will give you the signal:
L Will hold up my umbrella if the
money is in his hip pocket. and
II it is IL the side pocket | will
hold up my had like that Quitting
the hand up Oh the headt and you will
come and take it out. [ will 60 down,
and Will wire you when | want you to
come to Chicago Blixt said ne wouldn't
nave anything to do with 1t. He also
said that Harry came 10 him once and
compelled him to set fire to a building:
that he was working near by there, ana
that Harry prepared the materials and
got everything all ready, and said:
There is reason why | want this fire
tG take place; | want you. when YOU
shut down, to go and set fire to this
barn, and L will have the officer who is
on the beat iii place where | will be
talking with him while you are doing
the Job
''He said that he went and set fire to
the building and came back and he gave
him SO for doing it. Then he said that
Harry had been talking about killing
this woman some time before in order
to get the insurance, and that Harry
had arranged about the loan and inSur-
ance matters. He said there was no
such sum as $1,000; that he did have
some money, but he couldn't say how
much. He said that he told him he
was working the girl, and this was
scheme; that he had talked some about
killing her; and Blixt would take no
interest in it, and woultn't talk to him
about it. Then Harry threatened to
kill him (BliXD. Then on Saturday he
told him that he was going to do it to-
night. He said there was L rail or
bar of iron that was used up there.
which was about four feet long, and he
lOOk an ak ana cut tnat III TWO, and took
one end and put it under his coat. and
said that he would knock her brains
out with that, and that he went out OH
Saturday night to do 1t. The plan was
to Kill her in the head with this bar,
which would leave mark as though
she had hit her head on the curb, and
then leave her there. But it wasn't
&one, because he says he couldn't find
any good place to do it on Saturday
night.
"Then they had talk on Sunday, and
Harry said: Il will do it myself, finally.
and you have got to help me with the
body lie said that the plan was that
BliXt was to go out on the other side of
Lake Calhoun and wait there, and
Harry was to come out in the buggy
with her and kill her. and then turn the
dead body over to him. He says that
when it came about Z o'clock that