Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-20
CONFESSION OF 4 VILLAIN Harry Haywards Ante-Mortem Statement Made Public. GAMBLING CAUSED HIS RUIN He Associated With Counterfeiters, but Never
 Spent Much Bad Coin. HE HAD COMMITTED FOUR MURDERS His First Victim Was Chinaman, the See- ond Girl, the Third Man and the
 Fourth and Last Victim Was
 Also Girl, Miss Glng.
GAMBLING CAUSED HIS RUIN
HE HAD COMMITTED FOUR MURDERS

Minneapolis, Minn, Dec. 19.-Harry Haywards ante-mortem statement die tated to a stenographer the night before his execution, contains his confession of the Cling murder and also the startling in- formation that he committed three mur- ders before that crime. Hayward stated in his confession that he never got into trouble until he began to gamble. This led him to form the acquaintance of counterfeiters, with whom he associated for some time, but he never spent much | ot the green goods. It was too risky. One time when he was out riding in St. Louis the horse became frisky and | he shot him dead. He settled for the an l imal with the owner. The confession | then reads:
 "The first murder I committed was in l San Francisco in the latter part of 1893. was playing with Chinaman for small l stakes and the Celestial was cheating me. | l jumped and told him that 1 had found l him out, and he came at me with a. knife. | The heavy chair from under me was | good weapon, but I could not get good l swing. l struck him-in the face. He 1 fell and then I punched the leg of the | chair into his eye, and it crushed right | into the skull and he lay still. After that | 1 dug hole in the place under the floor | in the shed, broke up the chair and | buried it with the body there. l never had any trouble from 1t, although the | papers made report of the finding of 1 the body.
 | After beginning I rather liked the ex- | citement. Then luck followed me and I l went from there to Pasadena. I had l formed the acquaintance of likely girl, | a regular adventures. l was a little | pressed for money and the girl had saved | $500. l had her pat, but I could not get
 the cash except by pretending had an | investment for her that was a money | maker. She turned over the money and | I took her out riding, shot her and buried | the body. She was not very we'll known | and was never missed. I never heard of l the matter from that day to this.
 "The last trouble before this was at Paso del Norte. 1 was mixed up with | girl there and we used to paint things | once in a while. One night her brother l caught us together in my room and had | us dead to rights. He was crazy and l came at me with knife. I tried to beat 1 him off with chair, and the girl cried l to me to shoot him or he would kill me 1 and she would be found out. 1 fired at l him and struck him in the shoulder and | he dropped the knife and the girl jumped | out of bed and picked him up. He was l quiet enough after that and I took him i to a drug store and had his wound dressed. He made up story of how 1t l happened to ward off suspicion and I
 | promised to marry the girl, and all was well for the time. I left there and learned | afterwards that he died from blood pois-
 1 on from the wound.
 T was introduced to Kate Cling in Jan uary, 1894. That was at a time when l
 | had been suffering pretty heavy losses. | It was about April 1 before l was real
 | well acquainted with her, and then set
 | out to get her money. I secured about | $3S00 from her. That was right about | my playing the bank, with her for l partner, and that Chicago business. I did not lose the money there and l did | not intend to. I never took any notes l nor gave any up to the time when we | fixed up the last scheme. I hypnotized | her and played her right She was | good business woman, but she was not l highly educated, and yet wanted to pre- l tend that she understood things readily. | In that way I could work on her only | through mystery. Morally with Kate l Cling there was absolutely nothing | wrong. I say honestly that while I | talked pretty plain to her I played the
 noble racket with her and said that even though I was a wild devil would not do
 her a wrong for the world I was play 1 ing her for other purposes you see."
 | The confession then relates that Hay l ward had the mill at Hamil burned and l that he collected the insurance. He pro- l posed to Adry to help him murder Miss
 l Cling, but dropped him because he was | too white livered." Then follows the l details of placing $10000 insurance on
 1 Miss Gng's life, how they arranged for ! flashing money In restaurants, visiting 1 fortune tellers. paying over $7OOo to her, l of which $5000 was counterfeit and turn l ing over the policies, etc. Hayward then | related how he hypnotized Blixt and in- I terested him in the plot to murder Miss | Cling, but he claimed that Blixt was eager | to commit the crime. Hayward took | Miss Cling out riding on two occasions, | showing her on the first drive a house | where he told her counterfeit money | could be secured. These drives were | taken on the Saturday and Sunday nights preceding the murder, Miss Cling 1 taking the blackboard out on each occa- sion and meeting Hayward at the West hotel. He intended to smash" her dead with T rail each time, but found no suitable place in which to commit the murder. The rest of the confession gives an account of the killing, and concides with evidence which came out at the trial, Hayward meeting Miss Cling near | the West hotel and driving her to point where he met Blixt, when the latter drove her to Lake Calhoun and shot her Hayward told in the confession how he fixed his alibi, and how he took Miss Bartleson to the theater. The Bart1eson clock was wrong, and this accounts for the discrepancy in time, which bothered the lawyers in the case.