St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-06
SEVERE ON HAYWARD.
His Character eontrastcd With
That of Biixt.

his Character Contrastcd With
That of Biixt.
Gentlemen, take look for a mo-
ment at one or two of the princinal
characters in this drama.
The murder of Gatharine Cling bas
touched the chords of universal svm-
pathy. 1t has, moved the fountains of
general pity. 1t has moved MANY TO
tears. The defendant, and the defend
ant alone, has remained Indifferent
Aye, worse than Indifferent.
The cruel sheer and the mocl,;ng
laugh have played over his bloodIess
and constituencies face, while the tale
of blood was being told upon the VIII
ness stand.
1t is proper, take it, to remark unon
the manner and the appearance of that
young man on the trial of such a case
as this
Gentlemen, a young woman. one he
has called a lover, one he had known
for nearly year in the most intimate
business and social relations. one whom
he, If any one on earth. had infatua ted
IN the practice of gambling-this girl
suddenly, under the cloak and dark-
ness of night, out on the shore of Lake
Calhoun, is murdered and thrown rnon
the highway. From that hour to this
what has been the manner of uor,.,,
Hayward? The bare public aecusa tion
of being her murderer would have
wrung the very life cords of Won and
me. No man living, who had one SEN
timent of love, who had for a moment
cherished one thought of affection for
that poor girl, could have stood before
mr. \ ~,
ment read without being Frustrated
and who would not beg in the name of
God and all that is good fry mo
search me; L would have God and mon
know all the truth. Oh. gentlemen 10
1t was given to us to read human char
acter, and to read the mind, the soul
and the conscience, as He who secs tho
end from the beginning reads 1t womb
we consider this matter an evidence of
innocence; could we sit in the court
room and read newspapers: could we
laugh and sheer at the testimony of
witnesses, no matter on which side
they appear? All, gentlemen. in all the
history of the world, in the moral
realm, you have here an anomaly. a
character such as I have no language
or power to depict, such as the history
of the world, it seems to me, has hardly
ever paralleled
Has he ever earned an honest dollar
IN his life? Has he any business ex-
cept that of gambling, which is the
source and root of more evil in this
world than anything else? BY the
very law which man set up in defining
the golden rule, he inverts his whole
lie and soul, and labors not to do as
he would be done by, but to get some
thing for nothing; turns the weary
night into day, and the day into night:
schools and educates his nerve until he
is able to put a, thousand dollars on
the turn of the next card, and he cares
not and he reeks not whether that
$1,000 is his or the money of the poor.
unfortunate, misguided girl.
Such, gentlemen of the jury. is a.
brief glance at the character of Harry
Hayward.
Turn now, for moment, to another
character, Claus A. Blixt; working
man all his life, laboring man who
UP to the fall of 1894 earned with the
sweat of his brow every dollar md
every penny he ever had. The only
thing in his record which counsel could
bring against him was the fact that for
very short season, having no job at
his trade, he attended bar down nere
somewhere III South Minneapolis. 1t
was temporary. We went quite minute
ly and quite thoroughly over his his
tory. Born in Sweden, coming here
when six or seven years old, his par
ents located down in Goodhue county