The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-12

from Sheriff Holberg's lips. The pris
oner evinced no signs of breaking down
but on the other hand repeated the aw
full execrations against his brother Adry
which of late have been the only indca
ton that he appreciated the seriousness.
of his position.
swell, Harry" said the sheriff, as h,
approached Hayward, I've come to tel
you that the governor has signed youi
death and fixed it for next Wednesday,
That's a ID long time to wait
Tor railway train" was the prisoner
| ejaculation.
If you're in the depot it's long time, u
said the sheriff, "but you are on the train
for eternity. You have good many
things to consider before Wednesday
you have little time left to stay here"
Il know, that have little time" said
Harry; there are few things I'd like
to straighten out and few folks would
like to get even with. If had mybrother
Adry here" and with that Harry stood
up, clinched his fists and shook them
from side to side. adding: IF l had my
brother Adry here | would take his
entrails out and stretch them like a
clothes line back and forth through this
cell. I'm not quite so mad ut Blixt as
folks think, but if my father, mother and
brother Dr. Hayward were dead,
would be the happiest man in the world"
"Well, Harry" the sheriff broke in, II
see you have some sympathy left in you
yet"
NO" said Harry, 81 have not any SYM
pathy, but l feel where there ought to
be some"
Here Hayward began to dictate state
ment to Jailer West in regard to the Jail
hrpn KING nnicnHa nd ntbnr inn g
his prison life
DR.. Thaddeus Hayward was found in
his fathers Office this afternoon, where
the news of the governors action was
broken to him.
''Well, it is the preparation of lie,"
said the doctor, very quietly. THE whole
idea that a man as insane is Harry is
could be considered guilty of u crime is
absurd. | expected to see the governor
go down into the foundations of the case
l expected that something would come
out in the sanity matter.
Am | surprised? | hardly know
whether l am or not. The whole thing
was so devilish and internal and the pop
ular clamor for blood so fierce that now,
when l recall my thoughts previous to re-
ceiving the news, | can not say that |
am surprised.
"The tragedy of death on the scaffold
amounts to nothing. l care no more for
that than Harry does. The man is in
sane. He says he is not insane and that
any fate is preferable to CONTINENT
within four walls"
HAYWARD'S STATEMENT.
Harry Hayward's statement, taken this
afternoon by Jailer West, is incoherent
and decidedly bloodthirsty 1t starts out:
"a short time is just as good as
longer time, and | am as ready now as |
ever shall be. | had rather be hanged
than go to Saltwater for life. If the
governor would come here and talk with
me | would tell him some things. | have
had a d-m good time here and / will
had a d-n good time here and | will
coming.
"They ought to go back to the old
times. People are too soft-hearted now.
If had Adry here I'd put his eyes out
and his heart out, and I'd have BliXt cut
up and throw them to the dogs. I'm not
made of milk and water"
Turning to the sheriff at this point,
Hayward asked: 81 have u right to in
vite three persons in to see the hanging,
have not I?'
On being told he had, he said: "I'd
have one of the Dalton brothers, Bill
Cook and Cole Younger, and I'd give
them two good revolvers apiece"
The statement takes up the matter of
the prisoners projected escape. The
major portion of this recital is devoted
to roasting Ed Stevens, local attorney,
who Hayward claims acted the part of
friend and then played him false.
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