The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1895-12-13
INSANITY OF FEAR.
Pitiable Condition of Harry Hay
ward
The Condemned Murderer of Kittie Cling
Visited In His Cell by Devils and Haunt
ed by the Faces of Living and
Dead-The GaIlows Ready.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec IO.-Harry
Z. Hayward, the condemned murderer
Of Catherine Cling, is bordering on the
he verge of insanity. Sleeping or
waking he sees before him the phan-
'om faces of those closely connected
with the trial wherein he found his
loom. Muttering in the dead Of night,
waving his hands before his face In the
lay time, he seems always TO see some
thing of which the physician who
Jtood by knew nothing, saw nothing.
WHAT'S it, Harry" had often been
asked, and his only reply was:
Don't you see them? They are
here and there" pointing in the dark
corners of his cell and crouching back
rs ifat last he feared something. This
S all that he would say to County Ply
stefan Burton. who attended him
throughout the long watches Of the
aight and administered opiates to quiet
The famous prisoner, whose ftful
starts and lunges gave him worriment.
To the reporter, however, he ex-
planned: Say, do you know, last
night / saw the devil. He stood at
he 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. told them that l
was not afraid and the guard will tell
you the same. Then | saw the face of
kittie Cling. She spoke to me but l
did not answer. Blixt came too and
asked me to forgive him. but | would
not. Oh, il my brother Adry had only
come, could have strangled him and
been contented to hang" with a laugh
that sounded harsh in the echoing cen
room.
deputy was sent to his cell and ne
arrived in time TO hear Harry cry:
food, I've won thousand. Let her
go. Deuce, then ace, ha, ha, | win
again" Then an oath fell from his
lips and his talk became rambling and
unintelligible
lucid moment dawned and he was
asked how he felt.
Great, he exclaimed; Il never
spent happier day in my life and
the laugh, too horrible to find response
rom his hearers, rang out.
The old life was lived over again in
his sleep. and with ftful start Harry
would exclaim words of triumph as if
engaged once more in faro game.
II Harry has not a hope for COM
mutation of sentence through the
play of insanity, he has lost his reason
indeed, for but last evening he endeav-
ored TO open an avenue of escape by
the offer OF large sum of money.
Calling to his cell, Adry, the brother,
who gave much testimony against him,
he asked forgiveness for all the harsh
things he had said against him, then
asked for aid in escape.
You know that | cannot do it. an
swered Adry, and Harry broke forth
In invectives, shrieking: Il will meet
you at the gates of hell with red hot
poker. To the guard he offered 81, 900
to aid him.
Although corridor divided him from
the hanging court, Harry heard the
sound of the hammers. as they nailed
together the parts of the scaffold that
was to receive him.
They're off, he exclaimed. with hor
nd laugh, ''go it, you fellows; make it
strong, for 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 win let me go?7 The guard as
sured the prisoner that he was free
man should he perform this feat
That's all right" laughed Harry,
Il will kick the top from my coffin at
The morgue, anyway"
Hayward declares that he will prove
TO the world that he is man of nerve,
when the final moment arrives.
All through the day the noise aris-
ing from the erection of the gallows
smote the ears of the condemned man,
but, under it all he became calmer. ex-
cept the repeated statement. that he
would return in spirit and haunt his
brother Adry and Blixt. He is rational
this evening and declaring that he will
uake statement on the gallows.