The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-03-06
A .JURYMAN ON A COT.
Quito a Singular Spectacle In the Hay.
ward Murder Trial.
ATTORNEY hYE'S ELOQUENl SPEECH.
Hc Reviews the Evidence. and Paints Hay.
wards Crime in Dark Coiors-HIs
Defence Of Blixt Strong and
Highly Rhctoricsi.

| MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, March g.
Never before, perhaps, In the annals OF
| murder trial In this county has the
| singular spectacle been presented OF
] juror being carried into the courtroom
and deposited upon a cot bed. Yet this
was the condition of Juror Dyer this
morning. when he was brought in an am
| buancc to the Criminal Court, and borne
| by his fellow tarymen up stairs.
Harry Hayward, when he came into the
| courtroom, looked so pale and III that he
was the subject OF general comment, but
| to greetings he responded that he never
! felt better In his life. Miss Cling and
| Miss Ireland We're both present, and the
face of the former betrayed the deepest
emotion during County Attorney Nye's
eloquent speech.
At 10 o'clock Mr.. Nye began his closing
address TO the jury. lie began:
"A power greater than man has ever
been at work.the human conscience. IL
has been at work, ana brought the hu-
man assassin 70 his knees before his
Maker 1t Is a moral earthquake such
as we would be unable 10 describe. II
makes a man feel very small when he
considers how the law OF God has work
ed out TO a perfect solution that which
was deep mystery.
This defendant here has been the only
one indifferent-aye, worse than indiffcr-
ent. The cold sneer has played over hts
bloodess and constituencies face as the
tale Of blood was told upon this stand.
LAUGHED Ar THE wITSEssIs
Sitting here, this defendant has read
papers and laughed at witnesses. as they
testified for or against him. In the his
tory of the world we find but few like
this defendant.
Turn back. Turn now to that other
character. Clause A. Blixt, a laborins
man, who earned his living by the sweat
of his brow. ! challenge the world to
throw the searchlight OF heaven upon his
record. and you will find 1t clean. true
and honest. I say, up 10 April, 1884, he
belonged to that vase army that moves
the world-the army of toilers Well.
in April, 1894. these two characters met
the child of the furnace, I'm his oil and
dirt. and the child OF society. Before
long Blixt would turn to his employer
as naturally as "a child 20 it's father.
what more natural than that Clause
A. Bixt should become the poor tool or
Harry Hayward? From the beginning TO
the end the hendsh form of this defend
ant lowered over Clause Blixt when other
fellows should have been I'm bed. His
victims burn the barn and the master
uses threat OF prison as n means OF pres
sure. 1 llnt DuHNfo Oils VII Nit IthhA VI
December 3D., after "A system of training,
of coercion, after months OF hellish dis
cipline, and after iilling this poor man
with whiskey. the latter started out to
murder this poor girl. And what is the re-
suit? For 1--WE weeks he IL physically
and morally broker down. Then - e.
arra..- .-7r =, = ~, ~ ~, asSS2 gh the
agonies that man suffered. Who could
paint the picture OF that mans life and
suffering but Him who could give the
only relief And my life for II, gentlemen,
he will tell that story from the scaffold.
for IL is as true as the Word OF God IL.
self, and will endure forever.
WHY NOT CLAUSE BLIXT.
"Why did we not try Clause Blixt? I
will tell you. / wished to probe to the
very bottom OF this AFFAIR. II has been
said that accomplices are equally found
among saints. They come from the scenes
of blood iteelf. Witnesses for the State
often were not angels | feel different to-
wards Clause Blixt than any other crlmi-
nal. / have pity for him. It is the greatest
moral misfortune that ever overlook a
human soul that that poor man BliXt
should have ever fallen in the hands OF
Harry Hayward Who ever witnessed
such a scene I'm a court room? The child
of trial and labor on the stand, in whose
hands the man Of genius (pointlng 10 At
torney Erwin was but a toy. II was
the power OF truth. gentlemen"