St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-20
HARRY,s CONFESSION.
Sensational Story Told During His
Last Hours on Earth.


Barely twenty minutes before his
death Harry Hayward completed what
he claimed was a true confession of his
criminal career. For hour after hour
he had talked, his statement being
taken down as he gave it by a stenog-
rapher. The entire story, as told by
him, would ill large volume, but
much of it was Of a rambling style, the
Vaporings of half-craZed brain. Fol-
lowing is a condensation of the main
points in the alleged confession:
Well l suppose there is not much
use beginning with my very early life"
said the murderer, after the contract
mad been signed and the stenographer,
r. A. Mabey, was seated in the corri-
dor, with a small table in front of him,
and the speaker and his cousin and
another of the company bending close
1T was passed like that of most boys,
except that | always had about ali I
wanted, and If l had been satisfied to
go drubhlng along | might have been
like other boys to the end. l suppose
you are anxious to get down to this
last crime, but l want to tell it all
like book, and then 1t will live after
me, and will be in literature.
speaker, who had to be constantly
brought to the thread of his story by
questions. Where did 1 first begin to
gamble? l suppose it was playing mar
bles, but the first real games of chance
that took me was at a church fair
to work. Now, at the trial they tried
to make out that l never worked, but
| did, for l kept books and clerked
In a cigar store, and some of the big
public men used to trade there. While
l was there l used to shake dice, and
sometimes for pretty high stakes. That
gave me my first craze for gambling,
and then l got to playing faro and
poker and the rest. You know all
about that, and how 1 was called
Well, finally got tired of playing in
Minneapolis and st. Paul. 1 won some
times as high as $500 in a sitting, and
l heard of big games in other cities,
al and 81 SO l began to travel about. |
every city in the Union, and in Alaska,
Mexico and Cuba.
81 never had any very great trouble
until l had been gambling for some
time. | met with desperate characters,
and soon got reckless. [ got in with a
gang of counterfeiters about seven
years ago, and have dealt in that mon
ey ever since. / do not intend to give
them away, for there is honor, you
know, among thieves. 1 never spent
much of the stuff; it was too risky.
~
ing schemes with. l remember when
the first time came to me when l got
mad enough to kill. 1t was in st. Louis,
and l was out for a ride, and the horse
acted bad and made me mad. So I
killed him. l never got into any trouble
for that. / just paid for him. and
that settled it. Let me see. When was
the next thing of interest?
MURDERED A CHINAMAN.
at was somewhere in the latter part
of 1893. No, that's not the first The
first was out in Chinatown, San Fran
cisco. l was playing with Chinaman
for small stakes, and the Celestial was
cheating me. 1 jumped up and told
him 1 had found him out, and he came
at me with knife. pulled the heavy
chair from under me, but l couldn't
get a good swing to strike him, so
| poked the leg at him, and struck him
in the face. He fell, and then 1 punch
ed the leg into his eye, and it crushed
right into the skull, and he lay still.
I told some of this to Blixt, but l
added to 1t, and lied to him to make it
worse. After that I dug a hole in
the place, Undert the floor in the shed,
broke up the chair, and buried 1t with
the body there. ! never heard any
trouble from it, although the papers
made a report of the finding of the
q, Sp"f; iSes. nat was @Do1' 'uis u aug
after beginning I rather liked the
excitement. Then luck followed me,
and went from there to Pasadena.