Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-12-13
Hayward Receives the News OF
!" His Early Execution With ~
out a Tremor. ,5#
Pays His Respects to Adry and
Blixt in Most Bloodthirsty
Language.
Appeal of His Aged Parents for
Clemency Fails to Move the
Governor. rs

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 9.-When Harry
Hayward was informed by Sheriff
Holmberg that Governor Clough had
fixed Wednesday, Dec. II, as the day
for his execution, the prisoner evinced
no signs of breaking down, but on the
contrary repeated the awful excavations
against his brother Adry, which of late
have been the only indication that he
appreciated the seriousness of his posi-
ton.
"Well, Harry" said the sheriff, as he
approached Hayward, 1--WE como to
tell you that the governor has signed
your death warrant and fixed it for
next Wednesday," 1
''That's long time to wait for rail-
road train," was the prisoners ejacula-
ton. 3,
eff you're in the depot it is a long
time" said the sheriff, but you're on
the track for eternity. You have q
good many things to consider before
Wednesday; you have little time left to
stay here"
II know that I have little time" said
Harry. 'There are few things I'd
like to straighten out, and few folks
would like TO get even with
Condemned Mans Statement.
Harry Hayward's statement. taken in
the afternoon by Jailer West, is some
what incoherent and decidedly blood
thirsty and starts out:
"a short time is just as good as
longer time, and am as ready now as I
ever shall be-, I had rather be hung
than go to Saltwater for life. If the
governor would come over here and
talk with me I would tell him some
things. I've had good time here, and
I will have good time yet. I have no
kick coming. They ought to go back to
the old times. People are too soft
hearted now. If I had Adry here I'd
put his eyes out and cut his heart out:
and I'd have Blixt look on. Then I'd
cut them up and throw them to the
dogs. I'm not made Of milk and
water" %5
The statement then takes up the mat
ter of the prisoners projected escape.
The main portion of this recital is de-
voted to roasting a local attorney, who,
Hayward claims, acted the part Of
friend in need and then played him
false. Hayward claims to have paid
this man $465, and that he failed to per-
form what he had promised to do for
that sum.
His Parents Appeal for Clemency.
Early Saturday morning Governor
Clough received petition from l56
people of Minneapolis, 20 of whom
are physicians, asking that Hayward's
sentence be committed to life imprison-
ment on the ground that there is insan-
ity in the Hayward family. After
reading this petition and refusing it,
Governor Clough prepared to write the
death warrant, but he was interrupted
by the appearance Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
w. Hayward, father and mother of the
condemned man. The aged couple
were heartbroken but asked for moth
ing definite. They seemed to lack the
courage to ask for communication of
sentence or even a stay. They simply
asked for anything that would save
their boy. The entreaties of the par
ents were, however, of no avail, and
the governor sealed the fate of Mime.
sofas greatest criminal by ordering
that he be hanged by the neck until
dead