The Princeton union., 1895-12-26
He j H]ElE w AS A DEVIL
HARRY HAYWARD'S CONFESSION Is
MADE PURIIC.

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White Girl and q Man-Detnils
Of the Plot to XIII Miss Cling for
Her Insurance MOney-He Hyp-
notixed Blixt.
Minneapolis, Dec. 21.-The confes-
sion Of Harry Hayward, which was
dictated to stenographer for several
days and up to within few hours OF
his execution, has been made public,
1t makes book Of about fifty thou
sand words. He began by relating
his boyhood experiences, which were
commonplace He told OF his first
gambling experiences and said that
he had played in about every city in
the union and in Alaska, Mexico and
Cuba. He then continued:
II never had any very great trouble,
until l had been gambling for some
time. met with desperate charac-
ters, and soon got reckless. l got in
with a gang OF counterfeiters about
seven years ago, and have dealt in
that money ever since. do not in
tend to give them away, for there is
honor, you know, among thieves.
never spent much of the stuff; it was
too risky, but 1 used it for flash rolls
and in working schemes with. l re-
member when the first time came to
me when I got mad enough to kill.
It was in st. Louis, and l was out for
a ride, and the horse acted bad and
made me mad. So I killed him.
never got into any trouble for that; !
just paid for him, and that settled it.
Let me see. When was the next thing
of interest?
Three Murders. ...
ut was somewhere in the later part
of 1898. No, that's not the first. The
first was out in Chinatown, in San
Francisco. I was playing with a Chi.
naman for small stakes, and the Ce-
lestial was cheating me. jumped up
and told him had found him out, and
he came at me with knife. I pulled
the heavy chair from under me, but
couldn't get good swing to strike
him, so I poked the leg at him, and
| struck him in the face. He fell, and
then I punched the leg into his eye
| and it crushed right into the skull
and he lay still. I told some of this
to Blixt, but added to it and lied to
him to make it worse. After that
dug a. hole in the place, under the
| floor in the shed, broke up the chair,
and buried it with the body there.
| never had any trouble from it, al
| though the papers made a report OF
| the finding of the body. That was
about July or Aug. "a, 1898. -. ..
"After beginning rather liked the
excitement. Then luck followed me
and I went from there to Pasadena
I had formed ii acquaintance of q
lively girl, a regular adventures, one
Of these girls who never live at one
place long, and change boarding places
continually, because they are found
out it they stay too long in one.
was little pressed for money, and
she had saved $500. I had her pat
but couldn't get the money except
by pretending had an Investment fol
her that was money-maker. She
turned over the money, and took hel
out riding, shot her and buried the
body. She was not very well known
| and was never missed. I never heard
Of that matter from that day to this.
'Then the last trouble before this
was at FL Paso del Norte. l was
mixed up with a girl there, and We
used to paint things once in while
One night her brother caught us to
gether in my room and had us dead tt
rights. He was crazy, and came a
me with a knife. tried to beat hin
off with chair, and the girl cried tt
me to shoot him, or he would kill me
and she would be found out I firet
on him, and struck him in the shoul
der, and he dropped the knife, and the
girl jumped out Of bed and picked i
up. He was quiet enough after that
and I took him to a drug store ani
had his wound dressed. He gave {
story Of how it happened to ward of
suspicion, I promised to marry thu
girl, and all was we'll for the time.
left there and learned afterward tina
he died from blood poisoning from th'
wound" @|
Miss Ging's Murder
He then told of his relation will
Miss Cling and how he had got her t.
insure her life and make out tn,
policies to him. He then continued:
swell, this done, came the part O.
getting her out Of the way, and ther,
Blixt came in, I hypnotized him al
right, but, of course, no court Woult
recognize that. When I used to tall
to- him he would say everything
said. For instance, I said to him
| DuAI, Wudt uO YOU Luluk OF ClldL Slr
up stairs, that dressmaker? and h,
would say, What do you think of her:
I think she ought to be out in tn,
grave yard would answer, and IL
would say, I think she ought to b.
out in the grave yard l worked hin
up by talking crime to him, until h
was more crazy for blood than [ was
He wanted to get at her at once afte
the night came when he was to do tn
deed. Most of the things he told wer
truths, but he lied considerably to cas-
himself off,. At the same time hat
him hypnotized, and he was crazy t
do my bidding. All that about m,
forcing whisky on him is a lie. H
asked for it to brace his nerves, and
brought him two bottles.
'Matters were getting interesting
and was beginning to be nervous.
had to arrange some scheme to ge
rid Of the girl. Blixt suggested start
Ing mp the elevator with her and max
ing it an accident. He lied and sal,
did, but I was afraid that she nigh
not. be quite dead. and if she coul,
speak she might be suspicious. The
I worked a new dodge. and fold he