St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-06
TALKS FIVE HOURS.
Frank M. Nye Delivers a Brill
liant Address in the
Hayward Case.
HlSAUDIT0RS SPELL-BOUND
Awful Arraignment Of the
Man Who Instigated Miss
Ging's Murder.
WITH THE MlNUTEST CARE.
He Analyses the Testimony Of
Many Of the Principal
Witnesses.

A remarkable spectacle was pre-
sented in the Hayward trial yester-
day when Frank NJ. Nye arose to
plead for the sacredness of the laws
of the commonwealth of Minnesota.
He came into court with a pale,
emaciated face, and tottered to his
place before the jury box. Express
sions of deepest regret We're heard on
all sides, but for five long hours Mr..
Nye held his auditors spell-bound.
His summing up of the great mass
of evidence that has been accumulat-
ing for weeks was masterful 1t is
almost inconceivable that in so short
a time he could have covered even
the important points in the testi-
mony with the elaborateness essen
tial in SO important task, but those
who have followed the case day after
day and read columns of testimony
will look in vain for a single omission
of consequence. He alternated be-
tween broad generalizations and par
ticular instances. In truly wonder
mony of scores of witnesses, and
when some happy point needed am
plification, notably in the case of
Blixt, he analyzed it with the min
utest care.
Mr. Nye bore up we'll. The de-
fendant watched him with strange
expression all day. He did not seem
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of his guilty acts, and gaped about
much as he has done on the preceding
days of the trial.
A fine audience was present to
hear the eloquent plea for right and
justice, and it is not exaggeration to
say that never before in Minnesota
was an argument so magnificently
sustained as that of Mr.. Nye yes
terday.
St could hardly be called an eX-
haustive treatment of the case, ana,
in fact, five hours is short time at
best for an exhaustive treatment of
a case in which testimony has COW
cred five weeks; but, on the other
hand, it would be hard to point to
or any salient feature of the states
theory that he did not deal with.
He wasted little time in the intro
ductory. A few passing comments
on the Importance of the case, the
terrible nature of the crime which
made the trial necessary, and a run
ming comment on the way in which
ha in hn
ward family, tearing ties of kinship
and swapping the bonds of brother
hood. He referred to Blixt's con-
fession, to his previous good char
acter, and his plebeian origin. And
then to Hayward, the gambler, who
had hardly ever earned an honest
dollar. A slave of gambling, which
destroyed the human conscience, and
yet the child of broadcloth and dia-
monds, to whom Blixt, poor and
plodding, should look for strength
and aid. The stronger mind con-
trolled the weaker, and the time
came when Blixt became Harry's
tool. Harry Hayward was his close
and almost constant companion.
Who else was there who stood close
to Blixt, and who might be placed
under suspicion for this foul crime.
AS for Blixt's guilt, he believed it
to be the worst moral misfortune
that ever befell a human was when
he fell into the company of Harry
Hayward.
But I3lixt's story did not stand
alone. 1t was corroborated by the
testimony of the very first witness,
William Erhart If there had been
a third man there when Blixt
dropped the body fifteen seconds be-
fore Erhart saw the rig, there was
not one chance in a thousand that
Erhart would not have seen him in
his flight. In vain had the learned
counsel tried to scare a third man
out of the brush. The footprints of
the pointed shoes were also ac-
counted for, and another hope of the
defense had failed Blixt's story was
corroborated, too, by the story of
Edward Eidam, who heard a shot
down in the woods where Blixt said
he fired the fatal bullet His effort
to make up a sort of aIibi that night
was corroborated by Kennedy, the
fagman, and Stanton, the street
railway switchman The defense
brought to dispute it some sleepy
witnesses who admitted that they
were in bed, and, perhaps, asleep,
when Blixt made his visit The
jeweler, Metzger, also corroborated
him.
Then Mr.. Nye reverted to the
gambling transactions in which Miss
Cling was involved by the defendant,
and dwelt upon what Mrs. Goodale's
testimony showed of the propositions
made by him to her, looking to the
deception of Miss Cling. Then came
the talk with Vallaley, Hayward's
explanation Of which Mr.. Nye char
acterized as the weakest, most abject
and pitiable effort to explain away
a fatal mistake in the history of his
whole disconnected narrative.
The insurance matter was then
gone into, an especial emphasis
placed on the fact that when Miss
Cling made out application for an an
nuity policy, Hayward had her
change it, and get one ON which the
whole face value would be payable
sixty days after death.
The notes, too, he declared that he
believed were at least three of the four
made out Nov. a. He believed that at
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