The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-20

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1s-The ante
mortem statement of Harry E. Hay
ward, the full text making 10000 words,
which the Times will print tomorrow
morning in full, is in many respects a
most remarkable document. 1t was
made under the most formal conditions
and with solemn assertions on the
murderer's part that he was telling the
truth.
The text gives for the first time the
name of one of the victims and other
important details which have hereto
have been printed. Not only does he
claim to have murdered during his
brief career NO less than five different
people, but in describing the various
tragedies in which he figured, he shows
an utter absence of human feeling and
a pleasure in his achievements that
marks him as an unusual type of
criminal The language used in des-
cribfng his criminal adventures is in
the careless, f1ippant style that char
aIcterized his testimony on the stand.
His First Murder.
His first murder was that of Carrie
Hass, near Pasadena, Cal, and he
describes the affair thus:
Il met this girl at a dance and. to
cut it short, l killed her. She had
money and 1 shot her and buried her.
This is all of that. l look at it this
way 1t was not much of an amount,
! it was S700 and some odd that she had.
1 got the money. She would naturally
! holler and I looked at it, she would be
better off if dead. There would not be
anybody to boiler around, as she did
not have any relations. She was
young, pretty and little bit on the
sporting order. The money was left
her by her father. 1t has always been
in my head to kill a person and not
look at their face after death; because
| there's that mind business that leaves
an impression on your mind. That is
what makes murderers confess. The
conscience bothers them"
| Shot While Out Driving.
He then goes on to describe how he
got her money on some pretext, in
weighed her out to drive in the noun
tains, and how he shot her It was a
fzzle, he said, because he did not figure
it out as carefully as he would have
done later. She did not die at once.
but Topped around. He buried her the
best he could, but worried about it
after to go out and put her in a BOX
and throw it into the port at Los
Angeles. He knew this mans name,
but on the principle of honor among
thieves. would not tell it. Nothing had
ever come of the matter. Money, he
said. was his first object in life, girls
the second and travel the third.
Understands Durrant.
There was a girl in Minneapolis
with whom he was going and who
had $1,000 a year. He had planned to
kill her. but did not because there
was no way he could get the money.
But he longed to do the deed.
"She used to make me SO id
mad" said Hayward, that 1 wanted
| to choke her. | can understand how
Durrant killed those two girls in San
Francisco with pleasure
Once when tending bar in Long
Branch he had killed a. consumptive
: man who was there and who had
money. The consumptive had money
and wanted to die. The name Harry
refused to tell. on the ground that he
had an accomplice who might get into
trouble now: but this murder was by
shooting. too. and the body had been
thrown into the water
Then There was Chinaman killed
.
of the Mexican girl at Paso del Norte.
and lastly Miss Cling. One Of Harry S
| auditors asked him if he ever saw
spooks. He replied that he often saw
faces. but not of real people. Gather
inc Cling had never bothered him after
death, but the girl whose brother he
had killed appeared to him before the
Cling killing and said. Harry. look
out. look out!'
Money and Hatred.
The object of the Cling murder was
money and hatred. He hated the girl
because she was so stingy, Che had
obtained $500 of her money! and
mean and suspicious. She had a way
OF putting her hands on him and
pinching him that made him so mad
he wanted to choke her and could
scarcely keep from it until the time
was ripe. The stories of BIixt and
Adry on the stand were practically
correct and Harry exonerated Adry
from all criminal connection with any
of his schemes. BliXt, he said. was
surely hypnotized and was not respon-
sible. He felt sure that the man
should have been given but two or
three years in prison instead of "a. life
sentence. In closing his Statement
Hayward said:
$50 Help Me God.o
81 have told the truth, so help me
God-if there is a God If there is
he certainly won't blame me, as !
have honestly followed the dictates of
my conscience. Don't say I am sorry.
for I am not 1 have made my bed
and will lie in it without kicking. !
have had my fun and will pay for it.
He admitted knowing lot about
green goods and had used counterfeits
a good deal. but would not tell what
he knew. as 1t would endanger 9TH
ers.
GOES SCOTT FREE.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 19-M d