The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-20
HAYWARD'S CONFESSION
The Story He Told the Night Be-
fore His Execution,
MISS GING WAS HIS FIPTH VICTIM


The Murderer Told without Emotion How
He Had Caused the Death of Two Women
and Three Men, One of the Latter a
Chlnaman.
M1NNEAPoL1s Dec 2O.-The ante-mor-
tenn statement Of Harry Y. Hayward, the
full text Of which makes 10000 words, is
in many respects most remarkable docu-
ment. 1t was made under the most formal
conditions and with solemn assertions on
the murderer's part that he was telling the
truth. Not only does Hayward claim to
have murdered during his brief career no
less than five different persons but in de
scribing the various tragedies in which he
figured he shows an utter absence of
human feeling and a pleasure i'm his
achievements that mark him as an un-
usual type of criminal. The language used
in describing his criminal adventures is in
the same careless, flippant style that char
acterized his testimony on the stand
His first murder was that of Carrie Hass,
near Pasadena, Cal, and he describes the
affair thus; II met this girl at dance,
and, to cut it short, / killed her. She had
money, and 1 shot her and buried her.
That is all of that. look at it In this way
1t was not much of an amount-it was
800 and some odd that she had. got the
money. She would naturally holler and
looked at it that she would be better off
if dead There would not be anybody to
holler around, and she did not have any
relations. She was young, pretty and
little bit on the sporting order. The money
was left her by her father. 1t has always
been in my head to kill person and not
look at their face after they are dead be-
cause there's that mind business That
leaves an impression on your mind. That
is what makes murderers confess The
conscience bothers them"
He then goes on to describe how he got
her money on some preteXt, inveigled her
out to drive in the mountains and how he
shot her. She did not die at once, but
Topped around. He buried her as best he
could, but worried about it afterwards
and hired man two weeks after to go
out and put her in a box and throw it into
the port at Los Angeles. He knew this
man name, but on the principle of honor
among thieves would not tell it. Nothing
had ever come of the matter
Money, he said, was his first object in
life, girls the second and travel the third.
There was girl in Minneapolis with
whom he was going and who had 81 900 a
year. He planned to kill her but did not
because there was no way he could get her
money But he longed to do the deed.
she used to make me so id mad" said
Hayward, that l wanted to choke her. l
can understand how Durrant killed those
two girls in San Francisco with pleasure"
Once when tending bar in Long Branch
hn hnA Cd -.
came there, and who had money. The
consumptive had money and wanted to
die The name Harry refused to tell, on
the ground that he had an accomplioe who
might get into trouble now. But this
murder was by shooting, and the body
was thrown into the river
Then he killed Chinaman in San Fran
cisco in the latter part of 1898 Regarding
this murder he says: 81 was playing with
Il Chinaman for small stakes and the Ce,
lestial was cheating me. jumped up and
told him that had found him out and he
came at me with knife. l pulled the
heavy chair from under me- but l could not
get a swing to strike him, so polled the
leg at him and struck him in the face. He
fell, and then | punched the leg into his
eye and it crashed into the skull, and he
lay still. After that l dug a hole in the
place under the floor in the she'd broke up
the chair and buried it with the body there
l never heard any trouble from it, although
the papers made n report of the finding of
the body.
"The last trouble before this was at El
PasO Del Norte l was mixed up with a
girl there and we used to paint things
once in a while. One night her brother
caught us together and had us dead to
rights he was crazy, and came at me
with n knife. | tried to beat him off with
a chair, and the girl cried to me to shoot
him or he would kill me and shewould be
found out l fired at him and struck him
in the shoulder, and he dropped the knife
and the girl picked it up. He was quiet
enough after that, and l took him to a
drug store and had his wound dressed.
He made up story of how it happened to
ward off suspicion | promised to marry
the girl, and all was well for the time. I
left there and learned afterwards that he
died from blood poisoning from the
wound"
One of Harry's auditors asked him if he
ever saw spooks. He replied that he often
saw faces, but not of real people Gather.
inc Cling had never bothered him after
death, but the girl whose brother he had
killed once appeared to him before the
Cling killing and said; Harry look out;
look out"
The object of the Cling murder was
money and hatred. He hated the girl be
cause she was so stingy-he had obtained
50, 500 of her money-and mean and sus-
picious. She had a way Of putting her
hands on him and pinching him that
made him so mad he wanted to choke her,
and could scarcely keep from it until the
time was ripe.
The stories of Blixt and Adry on the
stand were practically correct, and Harry
exonerated Adry from all criminal con
nection with any of his schemes BHxt. he
said, was surely hypnotized, and was not
responsible. He felt sure that the man
should not have been given but two or
three years in prison instead of a life SEN
tence. In closing his statement Hayward
said:
u have told the truth, so help me God
IL tberp il "a God If thprp is IIa oo,t,;,.t--