Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-02-09
STORY OF A MURDER
Claude BIixt Tells Of the Assassina-
ton Of Catherine Cling.
HAYWARD'S PART IN IT
Ar .ttruciuu- Crime Deliberately ssannes ii
and ESeeuted by Heart
less Villains.

and Isteated by Heart
less si!l:ai.s.
minneapolis, Mimi. Feb Sin tn
trial Of Harry Hayward for the murde
Of CatherineGing the state sprung SUI
prise by placing Claude a. Blixt til
self-confessed tool Of Hayward on tn
stand. f. seemed calm enough. Hay
ward looked mildly astonished. but be
trayed no uneasiness. IN answer t
questions from Nye, Blixt related hoy
\ SIX or seven weeks before the murde
/ Harry Hayward was accustomed t.
| come down into the engine room an,
have long talks with him. Blixt point
n ed out on the diagram Of the fiat whert
A they We're accustomed to talk Blk
\ described how he witnessed a note fol
/ So 600 given BY Miss Cling to Hayward
4 H. said he had been Instructed by Har
\ ~ W say when he saw the pile OF bills
Jesus GhrIst, what a lot Of money" \
1 note was offered III evidence and found
dated November "a, nine days before
+ the !nurdet, That night in The base
Il am going to kill her did not let her
have $1,000; it was only $1,000, | am go
ing T. lake her to 4 restaurant and-hav..
hel show the money and tell her how
careless She has been"
Afterwards, continued Blixt, he
told me he took her around to restau-
rant and had her show the money and
She placed it in tumbler While she ate,
and some one else told her she would
be killed for her money" Blixt said
Hayward told him he was going to have
Miss Cling life insured and then Kill
her. Witness related the different plans
made hy Hayward to murder the wO-
man ana how finally he forced witness
to commit the deed By threatening to
kill his Wife if he refused.
did he say anything more" was
asked Of Blixt. Yes, he said that he
was going to drive out and find a place
where there We're some rocks and throw
her On the rocks and then they would
think il was q runaway. One day Harry
came into the boiler room with a piece
of 'T' rail four feet long and wanted me
to cut it IN two. Harry took the shorter
piece. Put It under his coat and went up
stairs. Afterwards / showed the officers
where the other piece was
This piece Of rail was offered in avi-
dence and Identified.
BLINT DIDN'T LIKE IT.
Blixt continued: He wanted me to go
out somewhere and get hitched horse
He said that he would drive out some
where with Miss Ging, would drop some
money out Of the buggy and get her to
60 after it. Then he would strike her
On the head With the n rail and leave
her there and start the horse to running
away. He wanted me to make list of
AL the things he had ia his pocket when
ne went, so that he should not lose any
thing while away that would turn
against him as evidence. This was the
night before, The next morn
ng he came down and asked me if ]
eyel heard Of people getting killed in
elevators. He said he would get iii an
elevator with her and strike her on the !
lead and then put her on the floor so
hat when the elevator started it would /
ut off hel head
Il said ] would not 40 that" went t
on Blixt. Hayward said that every t
line Miss Cling came into his room and |
Dut her arms around his neck he wanted I
q stick knife into her. | said TO him:
Harry. can not you make money some .
>ther way. This is the aWfullest thing
ever heard He said: You're a COW
lrd. That evening he came down with /
Ter to the boiler room and showed her
he things. The next morning, Mon
lay, about II o'clock, he handed me
lis watch, a box Of cartridges and
OIL Of money, and told me to hide them
u tin box 50 they would not be found
put them in the attic and when
old him where I had placed it, he
allied me a fool. He said to put it in
hollow tree in the woods. He said the
money was not all good, but that some
t it was green goods. He said there
vas going to be a funeral there be-
ore the 10th, no matter how it hap
'ened He said: of course she'll be
'rought here and I'll be sorry and I'll
ave to sit up all night with the corpse
nd after the coroner has had his ex-
mination, then I'll 60 east with the
ody He said he had to have $15. 600
Q carry out his plans in the east He
,ould get $4,000 out Of this ana would
ave 70 make $1,000 ii some other way
HAD KILLED OTHERS.
Late that evening he came in with
pint Of whisky. He said: 'Blixt, here
) some whisky ! said that did not
ant amy. You're a fool he said.
This aint common whisky Then
ook il and drank half of it Then he
aid: She's got TO die tonight and
ou've got H. help me. | said: Harry,
init YOU got any other way to make
honey than u kill that poor little
ill?' He said: 1t is nothing to kill
eople. I've killed two other people
L said one was 4 Chinaman, but he
il not say who the other was He
aid he had wounded a third ! said
ould not help him 40 it. He said that
got to or he would kill me. | did {
&C pay any attention to that and then |
E said he would kill my wife | told ]
i'm whatever he done, not to hurt my |
-ife. He could DO what he liked with
le, but must not touch my wife. Final
! [ said I would do as he liked. but
e must not hurt my wife
THE ASSASSINATION. t
He told me 70 go out Hennepin ave
ue 70 kenWood avenue and wait for
i'm When he came | was to follow
i'm Pretty soon / saw him coming !
nd followed him. Then he stopped a !
uggy and | came up and he told me to
=t into it and drive along. / got in
nd he said to keep my head inside
hen he said to Miss Cling: This man
in the gang. Then we drove out
-ennepin avenue and I did not see
I'M again until afterwards After
while she asked me what / had down /
lere BY my side and l said it was a s
evolver. She kept looking out all the {
me and l kept thinking It was a
ght in my head all the time Finally {
fired and hit her where he said | s