The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-19
UP-TO-DATEM MONSTER
The Cling Murder Was Harry
Hayward's Fourth Effort
in That Line.
HIS CONFESSION MADE PUBLIC
Vindicates the Character of the
Dead Girl rambling Cor
rupted Him.

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Hayward's ante-mortem statement, die
tated to a stenographer the night be-
fore his execution. contains his confess
sion of the. Cling murder and also the
startling information <nat. he committed
three murders before thai crime. Hay
ward stated in his confession that he
never got into trouble until he began
to gamble. This led him to form the
acquaintance of counterfeiters, with
whom he associated for some time, but
he never spent much of the green goods;
it was too risky. One time when
was out riding in ST. Louis. the he se
became frisky n he shot him dead.
He settled for the animal with the own
er. The confession then reads
THE first murder l committed was in
San Francisco, in the latter part of 1898.
I was playing with a Chinaman for small
stakes, and the Celestial was cheating
me. dumped up and told him that
l had found him out, n he came at
ne with a knife. I pulled the heavy
chair from under me, but I could not
get a good swing to strike him, SO l
poked the leg at him and struck him in
the face. He fell, and then l punched
the leg into his eye, and 1t crashed right
into the skull and he lay still. After
that 1 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. although
the papers made a report of the finding
of the body.
AFTER beginning rather liked the ex-
citement. Then luck followed me. and
T ~uo-+ f~~-, %tHr1 -. Docadonu bad
formed the acquaintance of a likely girl,
a regular adventures. / was a little
pressed for money and the girl had saved
$500. 1 had her pat, but ! could not get
the cash except BY pretending | had an
investment for her that was a money
maker. She turned over the money and
1 took her cut riding, shot her and
buried the body. She was not very well
known and was never missed. l never
heard Of thai matter from that day to
this.
1.-The last trouble before this was at
Ell Paso del Norte. I was mixed up with
a girl there and we used to paint things
once in a while. One night her brother
caught us together in my ROOM, and had
US dead to rights. He was crazy, and
came at me with q knife. I tried to
beat him off with a chair, and the girl
cried to me to shoot him or. he would
fired at him and struck him in the should
er, and he dropped the knife and the girl
jumped out of the bed and picked him
up. He was quiet enough after tnat
n took him to a drug store and had
his wound dressed. He made up q. story
of how it happened to ward off sils,
an was we'll for the time. I left there
and learned afterward that he died from
blood poisoning from the wound.
uary, 1894. That. was at a time when l
a. been suffering pretty heavy losses.
i was about April I ] before ] was really ally
at abou Gus 100 Sc f from hS her m0a TGat was sei rish1
about y :, my { Z playing the 6 eank W With b,, nsr as
not intend to. I never took any notes
nor r. gay ~ ,ta any ,a ,p sebe ens tdm I by W1nea ws
her ana played her fight. she was a
good business woman, blu she was not
h bsga that sau lehe a;na aaa yet w tninss r sa dRiffs-
through mystery. Morally, with Kate
Wilogi e1 I say honesty, that w11iie I
noble noble rapeket WITH her and said that, even
do hsr q wrong for the world. I was
playing her for other purposes. you
see."
The nonfes~ion then relates that Hay
ward ld tye mill at Hamil burned, and
that he caJsscted the insurance. He pro-
posed to Adry to help murder Miss Cling,
but dropped him because he was too
tabs of placing $40, 600 insurance. or Mss
Gfng's life. how they arranged for fash
ing money in restaurants. visiting for
tune ~tellers. paying over $1,000 to her,
of which s. 5000 was counterfeit, turning
over the policies, ele.
Hayward then RELAXED how he hypnot-
lied Blixt and interested him in the plot
to murder MISS Cling. but he claimed
that Blixt was eager to commit the
riding on two occasions, showing her
on the first drive a house where he told
her counterfeit money could be secured.
These drives we're taken IN the Satur-
day and Sunday nights preceding the
murder Miss Cling taking the buckskin
mare on each occasion and meeting
Hayward near the West Hotel. He in
tended to smash her head" with a
''T', rail each time. but found no suit
able place in which to commit the muir
der. The last time he saw her was eleven
The rest of the confession give an ac-
count of the killing and comedies with
evidence which came out at the trial,
Hayward meeting Miss Cling near the
West Hotel and driving with her to the
point whre he met Blfxt, when. the lat
ter drove her to Lake Calhoun ant
shot her. Hayward told in the confession
how he fixed his. alibi and how he took
Miss Bartleson to- the theatre. The
Partleson clock was wrong. and. this ac-
,ARty1ts for the discrepancy IN time,