The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-06
HAYWARD'S HARDENED HEART.
NNE MAKES 4 STRONG SPEECH IN
THE MURDER CASE

Bl4Nt.
Minneapolis, MINI, March 5.-Never be-
fore, perhaps in the annals Of a murder
trial in this country has the singular spec
tacle been presented OF juror being car
ried into the court room and deposited
upon a cot bed. Yet this was the condition
of Juror Dyer this morning when he was
brought IN an ambulance and borne by his
fellow jurors upstairs to the criminal
court.
Harry Hayward. when he came into the
was the subject Of general comment. but
to greetings he responded that he never
felt better i'm his life.
Miss Cling and Miss ireland were both
present and the face of the former be-
trayed the deepest emotion during County
Attorney Nye's eloquent speech.
Al 10 O'Clock Mr.. Nye began his closing
address to the jury. He began. a power
greater than man has ever been at work.
the human conscience it has been at
work and brought the human assassin to
his knees before his maker. lt is a moral
earthquake, such as we would be unable
to describe. II makes men feel very small
when they consider how the law OF God
has worked out to perfect solution that
which was deep mystery.
This defendant here has been the only
one Indifferent. Aye, worse than indifcer-
ent. The cold sneer has played over his
bloodless and constituencies face as the
tale Of blood was told upon this stand.
sitting here this defendant has read
papers and laughed at witnesses as they
testified for or against him.
In the history of the world we find
but few like this defendant. Turn back
turn, now, to that other character. Claus
A. BliXt, a laborng man who earned his
living by the sweat Of his brow. chal-
lenge the world 10 throw the search-light
Of heaven upon his record and you viii
find 1t clean, true and honest. 7 say up
to April 1894. he belonged to that vast
army that moves the world, the army OF
toilers Well, in April. 1894 these two
characters met, the child of the furnace
in his dirt and oil, and the child OF So
ciety. Before long Bllxt would turn to
his employer as naturally as a child to It's
father
what more natural than that Claus A.
BliXt should become the poor tool OF
Harry Hayward? From the beginning to
the end the fendish form OF this defend
ant lowered over Claus Blixt when other
fellows should have been in bed. His
victim burns a barn, and the master uses
threats Of prison as a means of pressure.
Time passes on. On the night Of Dec. g.
after a system of training, Of coercion
after months of hellish discipline and
after filling this poor man with whisky
the latter started out to murder this poor
girl And what is the result? For FIVE
weeks he is physically and morally
broken down. Then he is arrested. No
man ever went through the agonies that
man suffered. Who could paint the picture
Of that mans life and suffering but Him
who could give the only relief And my
for hn vii fan
story from the scaffod, for It is as true
as the word Of God, itself. and will en-
dure forever
why did we not try Claus Bllxt first?
/ will tell you. ! wished TO probe to the
very bottom of this affair. 1t has been
said that accomplices are equally found
among saints. They come from the
scene Of blood itself. The witnesses for
the state often were not angels. feel
different towards Claus BliXt than any
other criminal. / have pity for him. 1t
Is the greatest moral misfortune that
ever overlook a human soul that that
poor man Blixt should have ever fallen
in the hands of Harry Hayward. Who
ever witnessed such q scene In a court
room? The child of trial and labor
on the stand In whose hands the man Of
genius (pointing to Attorney Erwin was
but a toy. 1t was the power of truth,
gentlemen"
Let therl make all they can out os
the bloody buggy, the way the body lay
and such things" cried Mr. Nye, with
dramatic sweep of his right arm ut will
avail nothing how the body struck-the
girl was killed and the murderer has con-
fessed. 1t has been proven conclusively
by three of the best surgeons In the city
that the fractures in Miss Ging's skull
might have been caused by the fall or
the bullet wound alone. We could have
mt to tn he
had we desired"
There was nothing in the case from be-
ginning to end. Mr.. Nye held that was
not absolutely consistent with the state
ment of Blixt. The statement this man
made was corrOborated by Erhart, who
lived only two blocks from the scene of
the murder. He had left the street car
half a block away when he found the
body. He met the horse on the run.
That was natural for the horse
was scared by the falling body. If there
had been a third\man, the chances were
a hundred to one that Erhart would have
seen him before the fellow was able to
make his escape. Mr.. Erwin tried hard to
draw from Erhart some clew to third
party-to drive some criminal out Of the
brush on the Excelsior road. In this and
hundred other ways had an effort been
made to throw discredit on the evidence
Of Blixt.
The tracks IN the road OF which the de-
Tense had made 50 much Mr.. Nye treated
very lightly. They represented TO him moth
ing more than continuation Of the beat
en- foot prints down the road.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Nye again
took up the matter Of Hayward's loans 70
Miss cling, and commented sharply on the
sincerity Of the alleged lover whose first
regret when his inamorata was murdered
was that "all my money has gone to
hi"
He described again with horrible en-
phass and dramatic gesture that scene
in the Oneida block between the two
brothers. The attorney recited a dozen
TO prove that Adry Hay
ward had al first attempted to shield his
brother He doubted whether any other |
young man under the same circumstances /
would have been more honorable. or
would have gone that far Mr.. Nye did |
not know to what length he might com |
ment as to Adrys insanity, but he would !
let It 20. The court had ruled It out.
What was the good of dragging the fam
lily down by trying to show that Adry was
a highwayman. Either one OF two things |
was true. Either Harry lied fully and ]
about It, or else Harry was 4
cognizant Of II all, and had arranged IL. /
else why should Adry lay the watch where
Harry could see IL? Adry was not a saint.