The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-02-15

est went around the courtroom. He
stated that he was 80 and Harry was 20
years of age. He had come to Minneap-
oils % years ago from Mecoupin county,
Illinois, where he was born. He was
married and had two children. He was
employed in his fathers office where he
transacted most of the loan and rental
business. Harry was not employed
there but often came there. Harry had
told him that last summer and fall he
was engaged in loaning money on
diamonds.
Harry Hayward also told him that he
had gambled some He had told him of
having loaned money for Miss Cling,
and having gambled with her money.
He Had DeIusion.
At this point Mr.. Erwin arose and
impressively said: 81 wish to enter an
objection here. This witness has de-
fusion on this subject, and is, in fact,
insane"
81 don't see," said the court, ''that
he's any more insane than some of the
attorneys in this case"
81 take an exception of the court S
ruling" retorted Mr. Erwin, "and to
the courts remark before this jury"
"He told me-" continued Adry, s'that
she held some notes secured by mort
gage on a flour mill at Hamel, and
asked me to go out with him to Hamel's
and see about it, We drove out, and
though advised him against the loan,
he made it. Three weeks later he came
in and said he
Had Been Very Lucky
as the mill had burned and he would
probably get the money to handle.
About the middle of September he asked
me if wanted to make good money. I
said yes, and he said I could get about
$4,000 if was not too particular. He
asked me if I was willing to kill a
woman for $4,000. I said I was not
willing to kill anybody. He said it was
easy to do it and nobody would be sus-
picious of me, as they only looked up
set of criminals who had been convicted
of crime before. After that he said he
knew hackman that would do any
thing for him. He said it would be
easy to
Kill Her in a Hack
and if necessary the hackman could be
killed too. I asked him if the hacllman
had family and he said he did. then
said it would be an awful thing to kill a
woman, let alone a hackman. After
that he suggested getting her drowned
in lake but that looked too much like
suicide and he gave it up. Then he
wondered how she would fall if he took
her buggy riding and they should strike
a boulder, whether she would fall in or
out. After that he talked about getting
her tangled up in the lines and have the
horse run away
Adry then told how ON the morning
Of Nov. Harry had come to his fiat.
Found a Man to Do 1t.
"He took out package of money"
continued Adry, ''and asked me if my
vault was open. I said no, it was cleo
ton day I went with him to break
fast, and he said nothing of the money,
as he was supposed to be busted. He
also showed me pawn ticket and three
diamond rings. Then he said he was
through with me and that l had not any
uerve He had found a man, however,
who had nerve, a man named @. A.
Blixt. Then he showed me the bills
again and made play to grab them.
One of them looked like 500 bill. All
the rest looked like 81 bills. Later in
the day he told Albert Johnson in our
office that he was going into the MILL
merry and dressmaking business with a
little woman who was smart and knew
all about it, johnson advised him not
to, as sooner or later the woman would
do him up
The Life Insurance Question.
Turning to the question of life insur-
ance the witness said:
'He said the dressmaker had been up
in the New York Life and had passed
the examination all right but there was
some mistake about the papers and they
had to be sent back. She had made a
mistake in getting So, 900 instead of
81, 900 policy. He was quite angry and
said: Damn her'-he hardly ever
swore-'the fool, I'll kill her now, if 1
don't ever get cent. I'll make more
out of it now than if she hadn't made
such damn bull out Of it,
Refused to Sign the Notes.
"Then he went into fathers Office and
made out three notes on blank forms.
These were signed on Saturday
Harry told me the dressmaker was COM
ing and said, 4 guess I'll have you sign
them as Witness I said, I guess not. ,
Then Harry said, I'll get Jack for one,
and Blixt for the other. If you don't
want to sign them you'd better get ont
of here I then left to do some collect
ing and went home to luncheon. He
told me on Monday that the notes Were
signed"
son Tuesday he wanted me to have a
large bill for some 81 bills. gave him
$50 and 30 bill. The next day he
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