St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-26
| HIS LADY FRIEND.
Harry Hayward Writes a
Long Letter to Miss Hor-
ace Greeley Perry.
He EXPECTS TO BE HUNG
But Is Not Counting the Min
utes, as Some People May
Suppose.
GETS MANY LOVE LETTERS
From Maidens With Soft Heads
In All Parts Of the
Country.

)tE
Miss Horace Greeley Perry, editor
of st. Peter Journal, who was con-
Spicuous and frequent visitor at the
Hayward trial, has received the fol-
lowing letter from the condemned
man, which is printed in the last
issue of her paper. Hayward took a
great fancy to Miss Perry, who
often visited him in his cell, and on
one occasion conversed with her for
five hours about the case. He then
asked her if she believed him
guilty, and receiving no answer,
begged her to say she thought him
innocent even if she thought differ
emily.
The letter is as follows:
''Hennepin County Jail, March IS.
Dear Editor: 1 am going to try
and write you this morning, and
thank you for the kind and business
like interest you took in my trial
and for the pleasure your interview
afforded me in the Hennepin county
jail. l am very sorry that your in
terview was in any way criticised
L had an idea that was part of
newspaper mans work. 1 suppose
as a newspaper man" you would
like to know just exactly how a per-
son feels under death sentence.
Well, have been sentenced and firm
ly believe 1 will be hanged som time
this year. But l can honestly say
that, outside the sorrow and dis
grace it will naturally bring to my
father, mother, brother and friends,
l feel just as well as l ever did in
my life. [ positively do not worry
at all, nor count the minutes and
hours, as some people seem to think
1 do.
1.-The public seem to think I am
the man they are after, SO l say let
them hang me.
MY guard brought in your Jour
nal last evening, which stated that
the dime museum was paying $25 a
week for my dog. That is a mistake
l would not let my Pat to
museum for any price. 1 have re-
affair, and do not mean to court more
by getting my dog to help me. Your
account about the Minneapolis JOSH
er getting the characters in the Hay
ward case mixed is about as good a
thing in that line as 1 have ever
read. / laughed last night for about
an hour over that. / agree with you
that the public has been hypnotized
by BliXt instead of Hayward. L
think BliXt, with his Bible, is about
like Richard III. was with his. 1
certainly am in a position to know
whether everything he says is God S
truth or not. 1 am also in a position
not to be believed. When you say
that you had studied me during
your interview when L was not
aware of it, and that you thought
my heart was full when l smiled
and talked with you,' you guessed
correct, and I thank you from the
bottom of my heart for kind word.
Some of the letters 1 receive
from people on different topics are
certainly amusing, and some of them
decidedly silly, especially the sensa-
tional love letters l receive from
damSelS through the country that /
have never seen, and who seem to
be counting notoriety by writing to
man convicted of numbering one of
them. The very best thing have re-
ceived by mail, and which gives me
more satisfaction when l read it and
realize the truth of it, is the follow
ing, mailed to me from one of the
boys from ST. Paul:
Happy the man and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who sincere within can say:
Tomorrow do thy worst, for 1 have
lived today.
Come fair or foul or rain or shine,
The joys l have possessed in spite of
fate are mine;
Not heaven itself over the past hath
power,
But what has been has been, and l
have had my hour. Dryden.
Il think 1 am constituted so that
/ can take as much pleasure looking
over the past as great many people
in anticipating the pleasures Of the
future. On account of the friendly
feeling I have for you, / will take
great pleasure in answering any
question that you may care to ask
me, and in furnishing you with any
information you may desire. In
fact, after the verdict / will be as
communicative as l was Secretive
before it, Anything / refused to tell
you then I will gladly furnish you
now. If the heading and closing of
this letter is not correct form for a
man to use that has been convicted
of murder, you must charge it to
my ignorance, as this is the first time
l was ever convicted of murder or
anything else. 1 still claim that 1 am
innocent, in spite of the verdict of
the jury. Very sincerely yours,