The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-03-02
THAT IS, H. HARRY HAYWARD'S
STORY Is TO BE BELIEVED.
He Says That Adry Held up and
Robbed Him and Miss Cling -Hnd
Planned Murders and Had
Threatened to Kill Harry
and His Father.
HARRY IS IN MIR. NyE's HANDS.
The Observation-Disclosures Higgins ana
the St;te Lays Plans for nn
Impeachment.

t'eAs IN StliItt il lte tlJtliIiip
of the court. lie had evidently been
cautioned by Mr.. Erwin not to be too
proliX in his eridencc. and showed Il
disposition to condcnsc his testimony.
His narrative was resumed at the
point where he returned 10 the Ozark
after the theater and first heard the
news that there had been an accident.
He had difficulty in %persuading Coos
man, the livery man, who was ,cle-
phonins about it to police headquar-
ters, who was killed. He thought it
was Miss Cling or Miss Ireland, and
when finally he learned that it was
Miss Cling, he became very much en-
cited.
II thought Of all our relations" he
said, land how ! had lent her money.
1 remembered that She had often
asked me to lend her my revolver. and
as l thought the matter over, l be-
came convinced that she had been
murdered. 1 don't know what l said
to the people there or at the police sta
ton. I'd rather you'd take their story
for that, as it is probably true. hut
l was very much excited. l told the
officers that she had on a blue dress
skirt and not a black one, because I
knew it must be so. There are about
sixty days in October and November.
During those sixty days l had prob.
ably seen her ninety times. and ] am
sure that out Of the ninety times there
were eighty-sevcn when she had on a
shirt waist and Il blue skirt. That
was why l spoke as I did"
In the Sweat Box.
This testimony is Il fair sample Of
the prOliX explanations to which the
defendant seems prone. Mr.. Erwin
then asked him to describe his expert
ence in the 'sweat box, and despite
Mr.. Nye'S objections, he was allowed
to do so. He said he Went down
town the morning after the murder
and was met by a detective who asked
him to go to the chiefs office. Hc did
so, and was there. under a constant fire
of questions aM-< day. He would tell
his questioners Il lot of things: they
would go out and find them all true.
and a fresh squad of inquisitors would
take their places.
Hayward described how he was talk
en- to the morgue and shown the dead
body. with everybody watching him.
He did not know what he did, but said
he felt very bad, and knew every one
there thought him guilty. IIc went to-
Miss Ireland and offered to do any
thing about the funeral he could. He
ordered some roses from a florist. and
attended the funeral. On Thursday he
and Airy were arrested and put in a
cell together. Adry seemed very down
in the mouth, and Harry had said to
him:.
We're not guilty. What's the use
of feeling this way" but Adry was
dispirited. and finally Harry said:
"Adry. what is this? You held her
up once. Did you have anything to
do with this? 2"
Adry was silent and refused to talk
any more. After that there was no
further conversation between them.
This evidence caused a f1utter of ex-
citement. 1t brought in the story
which on Thursday had been ruled out
by the court to the effect that Adry
was the masked highwayman who last
April held up and robbed Harry. Miss
Cling and Miss Vedder while they were
out riding: The fact that the charge
was thus brought before the jury this
tflation of the whole episode. Adry.
it is understood. will go on the stand
and deny the story with an alibi.
The CrOss-ExaminatiOn.
1t vas somewhat of Il surprise to Mr..
Nye when Mr.. Erwin turned the pris.
oner over to his tender mercies 9 short
time before court adjourned. He had
expected that the examination would
take at least the day, and was hardly
prepared to go into the examination.
The day was an interesting one in the
extreme, being filled with the troubles
between the witness and his brother.
Adry. he said, had proposed all the
details of bloody murders. Harry ex-
planned that he had been so shocked at
his brothers d%epravity that he had re-
solved to sound many other people to
see If they had such wonderful con-
! sciences. Thus it vas that he had
questioned Waterman and the hack
man. and ven l.. M. Stewart, and he
dared the state to put Stewart on the
stand. Instead of having threatened
to kill his brother with a knife. Adry.
he said, had threatened to rip his
entrails out, had hleatened to kill his
father, and had often stated that he
was so devoid Of conscience that he
could kill his father easily and not be
troubled about it afterward. All
through his evidence it was Adry who
had been the fiend, Adry who was the
slaughterer, Adry who had a mania
for killing people. Adry who was the
member of a gang. Adry who was ev-
erything. and yet with all this. he went
on to tell how he confided all his bust
ness to Adry and begged his father to
take him back into his employ. Mr..
Nye, in cross-examination. roade him
admit that he had been a gambler by
Habit and Profession.
for years, since he was seventeen years
of age, in fact. Then he took him to
his relations with Miss Cling. and from
this point Mr.. Nye had the witness re-
peat his w%anderings the night of the
murder. He got along very well ex-
[cept to mistake and say: my fiat"
twice in places where he had said on
direct that he went into his mothers
dat, and MIR. Erwin interrupted and
corrected him. In speaking Of where
haven't after leaving the fiat the wit
mons, stated that ne went direct up
Hennepin to Laurel avenue. On d.
sttkacks he had stated that he went down
HEnnepin hrst, intending to look for
Iftss. Cling at her place of business.
Mk.saaErwin at nee stated that 1t was
fVSSminutes Of 5 o'clock, and II court