St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-02
MINNEAPOLIS.
IT'S AS thin AS AIR
The Defense in the Case OF
Harry Hayward, Charged
With Murder.
ADRY ON THE STAND AGAIN.
Out Driving With His Wife the
Night Of the April
Hold-Up.
GRINDALL'S STORY is A LIE.
Two Witnesses Who Saw Her
Alone on Her Trip to
Death.
ADRY ON THE STAND AGAIN.
GRINDALL's STORY is A LIE.

The feeble defensive wall which
Attorney Erwin has reared about his
client to save him from those who
are hunting him to the gallaw: was
all but demolished yesterday by the
testimony offered in rebuttal by the
state. All the conjectures, the s)plIis-
teal guesses and innuendoes that
have been thrown out by The de-
PENDANTS attorneys have been born
of the moment and stand for 10th
ing but vain attempts to obscure the
light. What is termed 1.-The defense"
in the Hayward trial is but a hetero-
geneous mass of suspicious, ground
less assertions and unwarranted at
lacks upon credible witnesses.
The defense has no case.
Harry Hayward may be entirely
innocent of the terrible crime with
which he is charged, but, if so, a
strange fatality has beset his path
way to liberty with innumerable pit
falls.
For a while it seemed as though
Tie OSIcllSc ISSlSd lIo case vi TIC
circumstance of footprints made by
a mysterious party wearing pointed
shoes. On Friday a reputable citi-
zen Of this city testified that he Wis
tied the scene of the murder on the
night it was committed and made the
prints which have .occasioned so
much fine theorizing.
IL Il
ual named Cunningham was heard
of in connection with the eXamina-
ton of Claus Blixt. Cunningham
faded as he came" and has never
been heard of since he stood up in
court to hear BliXt say, Il never
saw that man before in all my life"
Next in order of extraordinary
witnesses came George Grindall, a
workhouse prisoner, who admitted
having been convicted of an offense
against the postal laws of the Unit
ed States. Grindall has a great
story to tell He said that on the
night of Dec. 8 he was waiting on
the corner of Fifth street and First
avenue north, and while there saw
a mysterious man, bearded like the
bard" and wearing sharp-toed shoes,
also in waiting. Presently Miss Cling
drove up to the stranger and held a
ten minutes conversation with him.
hen he got in the buggy and drove
off with her.
The testimony offered in rebuttal
yesterday completely annihilated
every vestige of Grindall's story,
and, if these respectable witnesses
may be believed, he stands a per-
jured villain.
On that fatal night near the point
where Grindall made his observa-
lions, a decrepit old man named
Ford limped into the street to pick
up a stick Of wood that had fallen
from a passing load. AS he stopped
Miss Cling almost ran over him, and
checked her horse within two feet
of him. The old man knew the lady
by sight. The horse, after being
started, broke into a Slight gallon
and old man Ford watched it until
it disappeared on Western avenue.
No amount of cross-eXamination
was not all. G. B. Dickens, who
lives in the block where Grindall
located the meeting, saw Miss GinJ
enter the carriage at the hotel, drive
around on First avenue, stop a mo-
ment, as described by Mr.. Ford, and
then drive on to the end of tho
street. Mr.. Dickens keeps the West
hotel livery stable on Fifth street.
Still another witness, one Gemash,
testified that on the night of tho
murder he saw Grindall on Central
avenue at o'clock. Gemash's evil
dence was of little account, as he
confessed to an extreme hatred of
GrlndaIl, and threatened him even
on the stand. Both Ford and Ge-
mash were in i'll health and had to
be supported to the witness chair.
M. d. Wilson's story that he did
not talk with James Ward in regard
to the case was corroborated by his
hired man, Louis Benin Benin s.
evidence, however, was a parrot-like
recital
DIR. f. A. Dunsmoor and DR.. ]. H
Dunn were called as experts to tes,
tify regarding the injuries in the
head. They testified that in their
opinion the injuries in the skull and
cuts on the face might have been
caused by the fall. Fractures to the
Skull were very diverse in their ex-
tent under circumstances apparently
similar
William Jaeghe, a gunsmitb. was
called to produce number of cart
ridges which would fit the Hav-
ward revolver, each containing .
bullet of different weight. -Four Of
these were weighed as follows:
U. NJ. c. make, So short, 124 grains:
long, 1913 grains.
w. r. A. make, SO short, 12S grains.
long, $50 grains.
The bullet taken from the head of
Miss Cling weighed 126 grains.
supplementary to this Dr. L. A.
Nippert testified to the finding of
small particles of lead in the track
of the bullet, and then the impeach-
ment of Hayward himself began.
George Henry Payette, an A. D. T.