St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-16
IT WAS HAYWARD.
Startling Testimony Is Given
by Horse Dealer M. D.
Wilson.
He MET THE GOOSMAN RIG
Recognized Miss Cling, and
Afterward Her Escort,
Harry Hayward.
He MET THE GOOSMAN RIG
BLlxT is CoRR0BoRATED.
The Story OF Wilson Dove
tails With That Of the
Murderer.

M. II. w llSOL, d IOAoO N0oiA -
this city, created a profound sensa-
ton in the Hayward murder trial
yesterday by swearing that he saw
Harry Hayward in the Goosman
buggy with Catherine Cling at 7:20
o'clock on the night of Dec. 8. He
was driving home and met the Coos
man rig as he turned on the boule-
ward, right at the corner of Lyndale
avenue.
This extraordinary and unexpected
evidence has completely upset the
calculations of the theory-builders,
and throws into the shade all OF the
sensational developments which
have preceded it. Mr.. Wilson sWore
positively that the buggy was occu-
pied bv a man and a woman. He
instantly recognized the woman as
Miss Cling, whom he knew we'll, haV-
ing had business dealings with her
during the past three years. The
man by her side he did not know, but
recognized him at police headquar-
ters the next day as Harry Hayward.
The witness said he left his barn
at 7:10 and arrived at Lyndale ave-
nue.. where he met the rig, at about
7:20. By the light of the moon he
saw a man with a light mustache,
a brown hat and a black or brown
overcoat. That man he afterwards
recognized as Harry Hayward.
An ominous silence followed this
thunderboIt Both sides seemed
dazed by it. MIR. Nye asked only g
few questions. Mr.. Erwin asked q
number with some petulance, but the
damning evidence was not shaken,
nor was an attempt made to shake
it. A peculiar and significant fact
in connection with Wilson's testi-
mony was the manner in which the
attorneys received it. Mr.. Wilson
was not pressed to be more positive
He was not asked if he was sure it
was Harry Hayward he saw. Mr.
Erwin, it is true, asked him if he
did not recognize him by the hat
if that was not his impression, and
the witness answered NO"
The all-important question now is,
could Hayward have been in the
buggy and made the time which is
a matter of record in other localities Z?
There is no doubt of it.
Miss Cling left the West hotel at
7:10, possibly a few minutes before.
She drove to Thirteenth street and
Hawthorne avenue, just one block
from the Ozark flats, where Hay
ward met her. They drove up to
KenWood boulevard on Lyndale.
then turned and drove out on Ken
wood two blocks, going along side
by side with Wilson. Hayward by
this time had told the deluded girl
his plans. He may have said to her:
Il must go back. The people we are
going to meet don't know the wav
out there. l will drive you back
and have the engineer of the block
drive you out, and [ return with you.v
Miss Cling then drove him back TO
Thirteenth street and Hawthorne
avenue. He left her there. a block
from the Ozark, went to the base
ment Of the flats, gave Blixt the
whisky, and told him to hurry I'D TO
the foot of Lowry hill. Hayward
then went up and saw his father and
mother and Adry, got the So, stopped
moment to see Miss Ireland hur-
ried out to the foot of Lowry hill
and met Blixt, and then turned and
walked hastily over to the Bartle-
son residence, arriving there at four
minutes of o'clock.
The time may be figured thus:
Miss Cling left the hotel at 10. with
eighteen blocks to 60 1t would
take her two minutes to drive to
Thirteenth street, or 7:12, allowing a
minute for Hayward to get in the
buggy, would make it 7:13; he would
then have seven minutes to make
the drive out on Kenwood and meet
Wilson at 1920.
It is impossible to say what effect
Mr.. Wilson's testimony will have
on the plans of the defense. 1t does
not conflict with that of Blixt, but
it. Blixt did not know
about Harry having been
in the buggy. He met them as he
says he did.
Mr.. Erwin appeared quite tickled
after the trial and laughed immod-
erately at Wilson's story. He may
possibly have in mind a scheme of
mistaken identity-that it was Adry,
and not Harry, Wilson saw in the
buggy.
But Mr.. Wilson's story, however it
may be regarded by the defense, has
convinced the public of Hayward's
gilt. Nothing else was talked of
last night, and not since the morn
ing after the tragedy has there been