St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-12
MURDERER HARRY HAYWARD,S
DESPERATE PLOT TO BREAK
JAIL.
HIS KEEPERS KNEW 1T ALL
MIKE KIERCE WINS THE PRISO-
NER,s CONFIDENCE AS A
CONSPIRATOR.
THOUSANDS USED FREELY
Hayward Well Supplied, and the
Dash for Liberty to Have Been
Made Tonight.

Harry Hayward is desperate
man. He is not only desperate, but
no sacrifice of any kind is too great
to prevent him from retaining his
liberty if it can only be secured.
Mothers feelings, fathers position,
money and everything else he will
give up to get out of Hennepin county
Jail. Once away he will hide in the
jungles of Africa or become a natur-
allied citizen of some Asiatic coun-
try, away from the haunts of CIV
ilized man, where he will be safe
from capture. Such are his plans,
or, it would be more proper to say,
such were his plans until they were
frustrated by triumvirate COM
posed of Sheriff Holmberg, Mike
Kierce and Deputy Sheriff Phil Me
garden. But he was overreached.
His cunningly laid plan, his offer of
gold for his liberty, have been over
reached by plans that are even more
cunning, and the natural honesty of
the acceptance of his bribeS He has
been foiled at every step in his eff
forts to secure liberty. The sheriff
and his aids have known every
movement that the arch-criminal of
North America has made to get
away from the iron bars and the
strong arm of the law that has held
T.. LII ;cl,,
They have permitted him to lay his
plans undiSturbed, in the hope that
the conSpirators who are in the deal
with him would be caught and would
be made to suffer for their COM
plicity in the crime against the
| state.
The plans were all laid to permit
Harry Hayward to nurse the delus-
i've hope that he would escape. He
was to gather his fellow conspir-
ators about him. He was to unfold
to them his plans. They were to be
permitted to put them in execution;
to work up to that supreme mo-
steal down the corridors of the Jail
and make his break for liberty, and
then the law was to step in and
prevent the conspirators from pro-
ceeding further. It was to place
them in the same cell in which Hay
ward had been imprisoned, there to
await until their trial could be had.
These were the plans which the sher-
iff had made. He had taken every
precaution to make them successful,
and Hayward was to be allowed to
spring his coup Saturday night be-
tween the hours of II and 1, when a
posse would jump out from a secret
hiding place in the jail and corral
the entire party.
Even Sheriff Holmberg's plan
failed. And it was all due to a pre-
mature publication of trif1ing facts
connected with the affair. A half
column in an evening paper defeat
ed the ends of justice, and now moth
ing remains but to disclose the facts
and let the public see how desperate
Harry Hayward regards his case and
how little hope he has of getting frea
at the hands of the supreme court.
Every since the attempted Jail de-
livery early i'm the spring Hayward
has been planning a similar event,
going into detail in a manner that
surprised his jailers and the watch
men who had charge of him. Most
of these attempts to regain his lib
erty We're crude when compared
with his last effort in this line. They
have fallen fiat simply because Hay
ward did not know how close a sur
veilance was being maintained over
him. Although his plans have all
come to an untimely and undesirable
end, the fact that liberty might be
secured through his deliberate plan
ming has made Hayward unceasing
in his efforts to break away from the
chains which bind him. About three
weeks ago 1t was apparent that he
was carefully nuturing new plans,
and increasing vigilance was the
sheTdff's instructions to his men.
They were followed very closely, too.
Mike Kierce, who has had much ex-
perience with prisoners i'm the coun-
ty Jail, was taken into the matter,
and he was intrusted with gaining
the confidence of the prisoner that
more might be learned. Hayward
was wanting a trusty aid among
the men employed about him, and he
was caught by the alluring manner
in which Kierce talked of the pos
sibility of escape. He sounded his
man and the man appeared to be
all right. He tried the effect of fat
terry to see how it would work. and
the f1attery had a better effect than
he anticipated. When all of these
Investigations had been made Hay-
unfolded his plan to Kierce, and
Kierce still continued in his conf
dence. He even worked upon the
feelings of the prisoner to such an ex-
tent that he trusted him as he would
his own mother, and permitted him
to have charge of the key with which
1T was proposed to unlock the lever
box which holds Hayward in his cell
and by means of the unlocking of
which he would be permitted to es-
cape.
Mike Kierce secured the commission
of getting duplicate key from Mrs
Hayward. On Tuesday morning about
10 o'clock he met Mrs. Hayward on the
corner of Seventh street south and
Eighth avenue south. There he deliv-
cred note to her and made arrange
ments to meet her again at 9 O'Clock
the same afternoon at a restaurant on
Washington avenue north. The ap-
pointment was kept and Mrs. Hayward
delivered at that time to Kierce a key
which will unlock the lever. leaving
the gates to the cells in place. This
key was tried yesterday by Kierce in
ilreSenoe of EaY1NarIi .a nd Ii fitted ,rino