Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-20
SPAWN OF SATAN.
Missed Only Because Of His
Double.Dyed DeviItry.
HARRY HAYWARD Is WELL DEAD.

HARRY HAYWARD rs WELL DEAD.
Alleged Confession That Il Probably Tree
from What Il Known Of the llan-Four
Other Murders Laid ut HIS Door, One Of
Whom Was Also . woman-His Victims
Always Of the Weaker Sort Of People
His Three Objects in Life.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. e0.-The ante-mor-
tenn statement Of Harry T. Hayward.
which The Times prints this morning, 10
in many respects most remarkable docu-
ment. 1t was made under the most for.
NAL conditions and with solemn assertions
on the murdcrer's part that he was telling
the truth. Not only does he claim to have
murdered during his brief career no less
than five different persons, but in describ-
ing the various tragedies in which he fig.
ured he shows an utter absence Of human
feeling and pleasure in his achievements
that mark him as an unusual type Of Grim.
inal. The language used in describing his
criminal adventures is in the same care
less, fiippant style that characterized his
testimony on the stand. His first murder
Cal, and he describes the affair thus:
The Way He Looked at the Matter.
II met this girl at dance and, to cut il
short, killed her. She had money and
I shot her and buried her. That is all Of
that. look at il this way: 1t was not
| much of an alnount-it was 500 and some
odd that she had-I got the money. She
would naturally holler, and 1 looked at it
| that she would be better off if dead. There
would not be anybody TO holler around,
as She did not have any relations. She
was young, pretty and a little bit on the
| sporting order. The money was left her
| by her father. 1t has always been in my
head to kill q person and not look at their
face after they are dead, because there's
that mind business That leaves an i'm.
preston on your mind. That is what makes
murderers confess. The conscience bOthers
them"
| Had Just Three Objects in Life.
| He then goes OH to describe how he got
her money on some pretext, invieglcd her
| to drive in tho mountains and shot her.
1t was "fzzlc," he said, because he did
not figure 1t out as carefully rs he would
have done later. She did not die at once,
but 'floppcd around" He buried her as
best he could, but worried about it after.
ward and hired a man to go out and do
q better job. Money he said was his first
object in life, girls the second and travel
the third, There was q girl in Minneap-
oils with whom he was going and who had
s2,OO' year. He planned to kill her,
but did not because there was no way he
could get her money.
Always Picked Weak Victims.
"Shc used to make me SO id mad,
said Hayward, that I 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 he had killed conspmp
tive man who came there. The consump.
tive had money and wanted to die. The
name Harry refused to tell on the ground
that he had an accomplice who might ge,
into trouble now. But this murder wa
by shooting, too, and the body had been
thrown into the water. Then there WA
Chinaman killed in q gambling quar-
rel and the brother of the Mexican girl al
FL Paso del Norte, and lastly Miss Cling.
SAW THE SPIRITS OF HIS VICTIMS.
Had Two Objects in Killing Kate Cling
Money and Hatred.
One Of Harry's auditors asked him II HI
ever saw spooks. He replied that he often
saw faces, not of real people. Catherin.
Cling had never bothered him after death
but the girl whose brother he had killed
once appeared to him before the Gins
|, killing and said: Harry, look out; lool
out" The object of the Cling murder wa,
money and hatred. He hated the girl be
cause she was stingy-he had obtained
81, 500 Of her moncy-and mean and sus
, picious. She had way of putting he
, hand on him and pinching him that made
. him SO mad he wanted to choke her. and
> could scarcely keep from it until the tim
was ripe.
The stories of Blixt and Adry on tn
stand were practically correct, and Harr.
exonerated Adry from all criminal connec
ton with any Of his schemes. Blixt, h
said, was surely hypnotizcd and was no
. responsible. He felt sure that the maj
should have been given but two or tire
years in prison instead of a life sentence
In closing his statement Hayward said:
II have told the truth, 20 help me God
! il there is God. II there is he certainl
won't blame me, as have honestly fol
lowed the dictates of my conscience
Don't say that I am sorry, for am NOT
have made my bed and will lie in !
y without kicking. have had my fun an
will pay for it," He admitted knowin
o lot about green goods, and had use
counterfeits good deal, but would no
tell what he knew, as it would endangc
others.
Heavy Rainfall In lows.
4 BURLINGTON, Dec. 20.-Thcre has bee
rainfall Of q phenomenal nature owe
y southeastern Iowa for the past seventy