The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-02-09
Claude Bixt Tells of the AssaSsina-
ton of Catherine Cling.
HAYWARD'S PART IN IT
An ArrOcions Crime Deliberately Planned
.and Executed by Heart
less Villains.

trlal OF harry hayward lot the muruer
Of CatherineGing the state sprung sur
prise by placing Claude A. Blixt the
self-confessed tool of Hayward. on the
stand. He seemed calm enough. Hay
ward looked mildly astonished, but be-
trayed no uneasiness. In answer to
questions from Nye, Blixt related how
six or seven weeks before the murder
Harry Hayward was accustomed to
come down into the engine room and
have long talks with him. Blixt point
ed out on the diagram of the fiat where
they We're accustomed to talk. Blixt
described how he witnessed a note for
$1,000 given by Miss Cling to Hayward
He said he had been instructed by Har-
ry to say when he saw the pile of bills
Jesus Christ what a lot of money" A
note was offered in evidence and found
dated November "a nine days before
the murder. That night, in the base
ment of the Ozark, Harry said to him:
Il am going to kill her. / did not let her
have $1,000 it was only So 900. l am go
ing to take her to a restaurant and have
her show the money and tell her how
careless she has been"
Afterwards" continued Blixt, "he
told me he took her around to a restau-
rant and had her show the money and
she placed it in a 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 Ging's life insured and then Kill
her Witness related the different plans
made by Hayward to murder the wo-
man and 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 were some rocks and throw
her on the rocks and then they would
think it was a runaway. One day Harry
came into the boiler room with piece
of TT rail four feet long and wanted me
TO cut ii 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 evil
dence and identified.
BLIXT 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 Cling, would drop some
money out of the buggy and get her to
go after it, Then he would strike her
on the head with the 70 rail and leave
her there and start the horse to running
away. He wanted me to make a list OF
all the things he had in his pocket when
he went so that he should not lose any
thing while away that would turn
against him as evidence. This was the
Saturday night before. The next morn
ing he came down and asked me if
ever heard of people getting killed i'm
elevators. He said he would get in an
elevator with her and strike her on the
head and then put her on the floor so
that when the elevator started il would
cut off her head.
Il said l would not do that" went
on BliXt Hayward said that every
time Miss Cling came into his room and
put her arms around his neck he wanted
10 stick knife into her. | said to him:
Harry, can not you make money some
other way. This is the awfullest thing
] ever heard. He said: You're cow
ard That evening he came down with
her to the boiler room and showed her
the things The next morning. Mon
day, about IL o'clock, he handed me
his watch, a box Of cartridges and
roll of money, and told me to hide them
in tin box so they would not be found
l put them in the attic and when |
told him where l had placed it, he
called me "A fool He said to put it in
hollow tree i'm the woods. He said the
money was not all good, but that some
Of it was green goods He said there
was going to be a funeral there be-
fore the 10th, no matter how it hap
pened. He said: OF course she'll be
brought here and I'll be sorry and I'll
have to sit up all night with the corpse
and after the coroner has had his ex-
animation, then I'll go east with the
body He said he had to have $4,000
to carry out his plans in the east. He
would get $4,000 out of this and would
have TO make 1000 i'm some other way.
HAD KILLED OTHERS.
Late that evening he came in with
a pint of whisky. He said: 'Blixt, here
is some whisky l said that / did not
want any You're a fool he said.
This amt common whisky Then 1
took ii and drank half Of it. Then he
said She's got to die tonight and
you've got to help me- l said: Harry.
amt you got any other way to make
money than to kill that poor little
grip He said: 1t is nothing TO kill
people. I've killed two other people
He said one was a Chinaman, but he
did not say who the other was. He
said he had wounded third. I said |
could not help him do 1t. He said that
I'd got to or he would kill me. / did
not pay any attention to that and then
he said he would kill nv wife / told