The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-11
HAYWARD'S last HOURS
Laughed and Joksd with Keepers
on the Eve Of His Execution.
RESUME OF A REMARKABLE CASE


Biixt, the Actual Murderer.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. IL Before dawn
this morning Harry Hayward was hanged
at the Jail In this city for the murder of
Catherine Cling. Before dark last night
morbid crowds had assembled in the yiein-
ity Of the jail, and at midnight the throng
numbered several hundred though moth
Ing but the gray walls of the prison were
visible.
Hayward's swell dinner, tho ''last sup.
per" as he profanely expressed It, was
served, according to his desire, shortly
after 10 O'Clock last night ana he partook
OF 1t with apparent relish.
During the evening Hayward held
lengthy conversation with his attendants,
and laughed and joked on the subject of
his approaching execution. As Captain
Sandberg was covering the windows Of
the jail looking into the alley Harry
noticed him and shouted; THAT'S right.
Block out the gaping crowd. There will
be no visitors after o'clock in the morn
Ing. People wishing to SEQ me will have
to call at the morgue, as I intend to
change my quarters" And he laughed as
he said 1t,
To tho newspaper men he said: II
would like TO see tho account of how this
thing came off and about my actions on
the seaffold, and again he laughed as IL
he were going to picnic instead of to his
death.
Hayward spent considerable portion OF
the evening telling stories and listening
to stories by others, 1t being his last night
he was allowed quite n privilege, and wis
continually surrounded by friends He
was gay and jovihl all the time, and give
every indication that he would go to the
gallows as he would to dinner. He passed
cigars around freely and talked about his
great meal. The toast he proposed at his
dinner was:
"Here's to the girl who loves me and to
tho girls whom love-
As a sample of his conversation the fol-
lowing can be quoted
Sheriff Holmberg came into the cage and
Harry said:
How aro you, sheriff. am ms fine as
silk You and are the chief actors to-
night, aren't we, sheriff."
He seemed to never think of any here
after.
On tho evening of Dec. 9, 1894, a little
after o'clock, the dead body of Miss
Catherine Cling, we'll known dressmaker
of this city, was found lying by tho side Of
the lonely road that skirts Lake Calhoun,
one OF tho favored summer drives but less
used In the fall. An hour before she had
taken from tho Goodman stables horse
and buggy and had driven away unaccom-
panied. Soon after o'clock her dead
body was found, and at about the same
time the horse camo trottlng into the sta
Bile alone, and with no Indications of hay
ing run away. At first 1t had been Thought
that there had been n fatal runaway, the
battered condition of the head seeming to
point that way, but the coroner soon found
a bullet wound in the back of the head,
and 1t became question Of murder or
suicide.
Harry IIayward's first appearance in the
matter was at midnight on the night OF
the murder, when ho came to police head
quarters and expressed his belief that tho
woman had been murdered, explaining
that he believed that it was the scheme Of
some unknown persons TO do him out
of several thousands of insurance money
from policies Miss Cling had assigned TO
him as security for loans. Hayward and
the murdered girl had been close acquaint-
ances, and he, great gambler, had placed
money for her on the cards and had been
associated with her in one or two business
deals.
Miss Cling lived In the Ozark. hand
some apartment house owned by Hay
wards father, and they were able to SOC
each other. Owing to his close friendship
for the woman Harry was eloseted with
the officers, under the direction of Mayor
Eustis, for thirteen hours, and during that
time was subjected to u terrible inqulsi-
ton, without food or rest. His nerve was
always remarkable and was never moro
evident than then, for after twenty hours
in custody he was released, the officers
being unable to get anything from him
that NVnDil In I'M, In,
way with the crime. Tho insurance money
had made them suspicious
The second day after the murder came
the unexpected event which led TO the So
luton of tha mystery.
Ono OF the bost and most favorably
known citizens of Minneapolis is 'sElderi'
L. NJ. Stewart, a wealthy man of long resi-
denee in the city. He had been an attorney
and was for years advisor of all members
OF the Hayward family From him came
letter addressed to the county attorney.
and was written only after long pondering
over the relations of client and lawyer He
stated that three days before the murder
he had call from Adry A. Hayward, an
Older brother of Harry, who told him that
Harry and Claus Blixt, engineer at tho
! Ozark, were about to murder Miss Cling.
The 'elder" know that Harry often
talked In ways he had no thought OF act.
| ing, and told Adry he was being fooled,
and to pay no attention to the mattcr.
! Adry had insisted that 1t was true, and
that he fully believed the murder would
occur, but he dropped the matter when
told to do SO, and nothing moro was
thought about it until the announcement
| of the murder.
The funeral came next day, and In the
afternoon Harry Hayward was arrested.
Six hours later Adry was arrested, and the
next day Blixt and his wife were also ar
rested. Mrs Blixt, however, was soon at
liberty. On Sunday, Dec. 0, Blxt made
confession in which he stated that the
murder had been committed by Harry,
and that no had simply disposed of the
| body for him. This was clearly false and
he finally confessed that, inspired by Harry
| Hayward, and for fear that Hayward would
kill Mrs. Blixt Chat threat being held
over him) he had committed the murder.
Blixt had, he said followed Harry's in
structions in all particulars, Harry get
ting the girl to go with him to point
near where the murder was committed,
and then turning her over to Blixt, who
watched his chance and shot her in the
back Of the head aud then tumbled the body
| into the road where 1t WINS found. 1t was
for this that Harry Hayward, the stalwart
six footer handsome, nervy and cratic,
was convicted and sentenced to hang.
Blixt was sent to tho state prison for life
for his share in the crime.
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