The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-10
RAWLINGS OF HAYWARD
Katherine Ging's Slayer Is
Probably Feigning
Insanity.
SAYS STRANGE THINGS,
And Pretends to Have the
Most Horrible of
Visions.
OFFERS BRIDES TO ESCAPE.
But There Is Little Hope for the Con.
demned Man and He Promises
to Die Bravely.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Dec. 9.-Harry
I. Hayward, the murderer of Katherine
Cling, is bordering on the verge of insanity.
Sleeping or waking he sees before him
the faces of those connected with the trial
wherein he found his doom. Muttering in
the dead of night, waving his hands be-
fore his face IN the daytime, he seems al
ways to see something of which the physi-
clan who stood by knew nothing, saw
nothing.
"What is it, Harry?'' has often been
asked, and his reply was: Don't you see
them? They are here and there" pointing
in the dark corners of his cell and crouch
ing back as if at last he feared something
"They talk to me-" he continued.
This is all he would say 10 County Ply
stefan Burton, who attended him through
OUT the long watches of the night and adj
ministered opiates to quiet the famous
prisoner, whose titful starts and lunges
gave him worriment. To reporter, how
ever, he excla lined:
"Say. do you know last night saw the
devil. He stood at the foot of my bed and
spoke to me. Another stood at the other
corner, and | also saw two corpses. |
wrestled with the devils and threw them
out but it did no good. l told them that
was not afraid and the guard will tell
you the same. Then I saw the face of
Kittie Cling. She spoke to me, but did
not answer. Blixt came too, and asked
me to forgive him, but l would not. Oh
if my brother Adry had only come, could
have strangled him and been contented to
hang" with laugh that sounded harsh
in the echoing cellreom.
a deputy was sent to his cell. and he ar
rived in time to hear Harry cry, Good,
I've won thousand; let her GO; deuce,
then an ace ha ha! l win againm Then
an oath fell from his lips and his talk be-
came rambling and unintelligible. A lucid
moment dawned and he was asked how he
felt. Great" he exclaimed. II never
spent happier day in my life" and the
laugh too horrible to find response from
his hearers rang out. The old life was
lived over again in his sleep, and with
quick start Harry would exclaim words of
triumph as if engaged once more in a faro
game.
If Hayward has not hope of commute
ment of sentence through the play of in
sanity, he has lost his reason indeed, for
but last evening he endeavored to open an
avenue of escape by the offer of large
sum of money. The plot was as foolish as
one could possibly be. Calling to his cell
Adry, the brother who gave deadly 1esti-
mony against him, he asked forgiveness
for all the harsh things he had said against
him, and then asked his aid in escape.
''You know that / cannot do it," an
swered Adry, and Harry broke forth in
invectives, shrieking: 81 will meet you at
the gates OF hell with redhot poker" TO
the guard he offered $1,000 to aid him, but
he might as well have asked it of an in
FAINT. A million could not have lent him
aid. Although an iron door separated
him from the hanging-court, Harry heard
the sounds of the hammerings as they
nailed together the parts of the scaffold
that was to relieve him. They re off, "
he exclaimed with a horrid laugh. $50
it, you fellows. Make it strong, for l
don't want any Slip
Then turning to the guard who stood by
he demanded: Say, after the drop and
they cut me down, if | get up and walk, do
you suppose that they will let me go?"
The guard assured the prisoner that he
was a free man should he perform this
feat. "That's all right" laughed Harry,
81 will kick the top from my coffin at the
morgue anyway"
The guard Immediately turned away and
the conversation was over for the moment.
Hayward declares that he will prove to
the world that he is man of nerve, when
the final moment arrives 81 will walk to
the gallows with a fl rm STEP said he to
the United Press man this afternoon.
1.-The papers for months past have Won
dered if / was possessed of nerve or was
man without soul. When i am done the
press will say whether or not l had the
nerve"
All through the day the noise arising
from the erection of the gallows smote the
ears of the condemned man; but under it
all he grew calmer, excepting the re-
peated statement that he would return in
spirit and haunt his brother Adry and
Blixt He was rational in the evening.
He declares that he will make statement
on the gallows Wednesday morning and
the most expert of the court reporters of
Hennepin County have been engaged to
take his words. 1t is believed, however,
that Harry will not make confession, but
will simply make rehash Of his former
statements regarding his escape plot and
his avowed innocence in connection with
the death of Kittie Cling.
Everything is tonight completed for the
execution. The gallows has been erected
In the court where the Barrett boys were
hanged and where narrow cells have held
condemned prisoners heretofore. Sheriff
Holm berg himself will pull the lever that
will spring the trap. The structure is not
the shaky affair used in former executions.
Instead huge and solid tmbers nave been
used, and the spectators will not hear the