The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-06

WAS COLD-BLOODED WORK.
HOW HAYWARD WORKED UPON
WITNESS FEARS.

Court House as Hayvard's Tool
Detailed How, Day by Day and
Hour by Hour, the Plot Was Ma
turcd to Gain Possession of the
Woman's M0ney-A Story Almost
beyond belief.
| Minneapolis, Feb. Sin the trial OF
Harry Hayward for the murder OF
Catherine Cling, the state today sprung
a surprise by placing Claus A. BliXt,
the self confessed tool of Hayward, on
! the stand. He seemed calm enough.
! Hayward looked mildly astonished, but
betrayed no uneasiness.
! In answer to questions from Nye,
BliXt related how, six or seven weeks
before the murder, Harry Hayward
was accustomed to come down into the
engine-room and have long talks with
him Blixt pointed out the rooms on
I the fats where they were accustomed
to talk
BliXt described how he witnessed a
note for $1,000 given by Miss Cling to
Hayward. He said he had been in
structed by Harry to say, when he saw
the pile of bills: g. what lot Of
money"
The Note in Evidence.
The note was offered in evidence and
found to be dated Nov. "a. nine days
before the murder. That night in the
basement of Ozark, Harry said to him:
! IT am going to Kill her. 1 did not let
her have $4,000; it was only 81, 600. 1 am
going to take her to restaurant and
have her show the money and tell her
how careless she has been" After
wards" continued Blixt, ''he told me
he took her around to a restaurant and
| had her show the money and she placed
it in tumbler while she ate, and some
one else told her she'd be killed for
her money"
Did he say anything more?"
Yes; he said he was going to have
her life insured and then kill her. He
said he was going to drive out and
| find place where there were some
then they would think it was rim
away. He wanted me to go to St. Paul
and get an oyercoat, a SLOUGH hat and
a revolver like the one he had. [ said
l would not do it. One day Harry
! came into the boiler-room with a piece
of TT rail, four feet long, and wanted
me to cut it in two. l said / could not
do it, but a man showed me how and |
did it. Harry took the shorter piece,
put it under his coat and went up
stairs. Afterwards [ showed the Of
! TIy11p T0jop
This piece of rail was offered in evil
dence and identified. Blixt continued:
CoId-BIooded Scheme.
and get a hitched horse. He said he
would drive out somewhere with Miss
Cling, would drop some money out of
the buggy and get her to go after it.
Then he would strike her on the head
with the TT rail and leave her there
and start the horse to running away.
He wanted me to make a list of all
the things he had in his pocket when
he went so that he should not lose
anything while away that would turn
up against him as evidence. This was
Saturday night before. The next morn
ing he came down and asked me if
II ever heard of people getting killed
in elevators. He said he would go in
/ the elevator with her, and strike her
on the head and then put her on the
floor. so that when the elevator started
it would cut off her head
a Murmur of Horror.
At this, there was a low murmur OF
horror that ran through the assem-
blage, which was checked by the depu-
tvs gavel.
81 said I would not do that" went
on Blixt. Hayward said that every
time Miss Cling came into his room and
put her arms around his neck he
wanted to stick a knife into the -
- -" And BliXt, with an expires.
sive gesture showed how Harry want
led to stab the woman.
81 said to him, Harry cannot you
make money some other way? This
is the aWfullest thing 1 ever heard.
He said, You're coward. Your con.
science is hurting. If 1 had her and g
dog, I'd shoot her and leave the dog.
That evening he came down with hel
to the boiler room and showed hel
things. The next morning, that was
Monday, about II o'clock, he handed
me his watch, a box of cartridges anC
a roll of money, and told me to hide
them in a tin box SO that they woulc
: not be found. The watch was gold
and he said there was $50 in money
: there. 1 put it in the attic, and wher
told him where l had placed it he
called me d fool
and said that was the first place they
: look for it. He said to put it in hoI
low tree In the woods. He said the
money was not all good, but that some
of 1T was green goods.
Going to Be a Funeral.
HE said there was going to be {
funeral there before the 10th, no mat
ter how it happened. He said, 90
. course she'll be brought here, and II
be sorry, and Til have to sit up al
night with the corpse and after the
coroner has had his examination, the1
I'll go east with the body He sale
he had to have $4,000 to carry out hi:
plans in the east. He would get $40,
: 900 out of this, and he would have tt
make $1,000 in some other way. Lat,
that evening he came in with pin
of whisky. He said: 'Blixt, here
some whisky I said L did not wan
any. You're a dam fool he said
this amt common whisky Then
J took it and drank half Of it. Then h
said, She's got to die tonight, an,
: you've got to help me- 1 said, Harry
amt you got any other way to max
J money than to kill that poor little girl
He said It's nothing to kill people
I've killed two other people, He sal