The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-02-22
STRONG CASE AGAINST HARRY.
Nothing Left Undone to Con-
ViCt the Accused of the
Murder.
THE LAST DAYS TESTIMONY.
Sensational Evidence Given by
a Lady Friend of Miss
Cling.

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. IA. The last wit
ness for the state in the Hayward muir
der trail has been examined and at 1856
o'clock the county attorney said, adj
dressing the court, '"The state rests
here
The announcement created "a ripple of
surprise, but there really remained
nothing to add to the avalanche of cor
roborative evidence which has swept
away the puny barriers thrown up by
the defense. The remarkable story
which Attorney Hall said he would
prove in his opening address has been
told by the chief actor in that bloody
narrative. 1t has been corroborated by
the scathing testimony of the accused
mans own brother, and the extraordi-
nary story he was constrained to tell
has been corroborated by dozens of wit
nesses.
The case as it stands fits Harry Hay
ward like CLIQUE. And however much
that individual may smirk and smile
and affect indifference, it will require
proof little short of the miraculous to
save his neck from the halter.
Miss Ging's Last Remarks.
The sensation of the day was when
the state called Mrs. Lillian Hazleton to
the stand Mrs. Hazleton was a friend
of Catherine Gings and is perhaps the
last person with whom she held any
considerable conversation on the night
of the murder. The ladies met in Hale
& Thomas dry goods store on Nicollet
avenue at about 4:30 in the afternoon
and were together for half an hour. In
the course of that conversation the
name of Harry Hayward was men
toned. Mrs. Hazleton asked Miss Cling
to supper, and her reply, given in care
less, friendly confidence, connected her
lover inextricably with her cruel MUIR
der She said: 81 cannot go; 1 have a
business engagement with Mr.. Hay
ward"
Cross examination failed to shake
Mrs. Hazleton's recollection of the time,
place or exact conversation.
Peter Vallalie's Testimony.
The first witness introduced was
Peter Vallalie, the hackman of whom
Harry Hayward had spoken to Adry as
being willing to assist in the proposed
crime Vallalie's testimony was most
| damaging, as it corroborated in most
striking way one portion of Adry Hay
wards remarkable story, and thus
rendered thoroughly untenable the
defense's pet theory as to Adry's
sanity. Vallalie testified that Harry
Hayward had approached him with
questions as to whether he had ever
''done anything" and if SO whether his
conscience had bothered him. Hayward
had later asked Vallalie whether he
would drive hack into Lake Calhoun
and let the occupant drown for a sum of
money.
81 told him was no swimmer" said
Vallalie, "and that was about the end
of it,"
First Outside Confederation.
This is the first confederation of the
stories of Blixt and Adry obtained from
an entirely outside source, and exhibited
in striking way Hayward's strangely
careless way of asking discriminating
questions and making damaging state
ments. That man capable of concoct
ing so cunning and intricate plot
should have made so many confidants
seems almost as incredible as that he
should have concocted the plot at all
Mr.. Erwin at once recognized the SUI
preme Importance of this testimony
and tried to have it stricken ou
entirely. The court, however, refused tt
sustain his objection, and the evidenc'
goes to the jury. 1t was knock GU
blow reserved by the state until thu
very last, and sadly upsets the defense'
plans.
Mr.. Erwin's objection having beel
overruled, Vallalie said:
Had a Job for the Hackman.
'Harry had talk with me at tn
Ozark about or o'clock in the morn
ing, in my carriage. He questioned M
as to my conscience and whether j
would follow me. He asked me abou
driving into lake with some one in til
hack, and then jumping off and leavin
them go. I told him was no swim
mer. He then asked me if the tear
was fractions, and told him it was
He asked me what I wanted for til
team and told him. He asked me if
cared what became of the team after b
bought it. I told him I didn't. FL
then asked me if the team runnin
away would do up the whole rig, and
said il would"
'What did you understand by thi
question:"
eff my conscience would hurt me?
understood him to mean if I would XII
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