The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-20
A HORRIBLE RECORD.
HAYWARD CONFESSED TO COMMIT
TING -FOUR MURDERS.
After the First Deed He Acquired Taste
for Terrible Deeds-Two Men and Two
Women Were His Victims.

MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, Dec. l9.-Har'
| ry Haywood's ante-mortem statement
| dictated 10 stcnogrdphers the nlght De-
| fore his execution. contains his confession
! OF the Cling murder, ana also the star I
! ling Information that he committed three
| murders before that crime.
| Haywood stated In his confession thal
| he never got into trouble until he began
| TO gamble This led him 10 form the ac-
| quaintance OF counterfeiters, with whom
| he associated for some time but he never
| spent much of green goods; IL WAS too
| risky. ~ .
One time when he was out riding II
St. Louis, TIE horse became risky, anc
he shot him dead. lie settled Tor th'
animal with the owner. The confession
then reads:
THE FIRST MURDER.
THE first murder 1 committed was II
San Francisco. in the latter part OF 1893
l was playing with Chinaman for small
stakes, and the Celestial was cheating
me. l jumped up and told him That
had found him out. and he came at me
with a knife. / pulled the heavy chan
from under me, but ! could not get a
good swing TO strike him. SO / poked the
leg at him, and struck him In the face.
He fell, and then | punched the leg into
his eye, and 1t crashed right through
into the skull. and he lay still. After
that | dug 81 hole in the place under
the floor In the shed. broke up the chair
and buried it with the body there.
never heard any trouble from II. though
the papers made a report OF the finding
OF the body.
After beginning, l rather liked the
excitement. Then luck followed me,
and / went from there to Pasadena.
had formed the acquaintance Of woman
who was likely regular adventures.
j was a little pressed for money, and
the girl had saved $500. i had her pat,
but could not get the cash, except by
pretending that l had an investment
for her that was a money-maker. She
turned over the money, and / took
her out riding, shot her, and buried the
body.
"She was not very well known, and
was never missed. ] never heard OF
that matter from that day to this.
"'rhe last trouble before this was at
III Paso del Nortc. 1 was mixed up with
a girl there. one night her brother
caught US together. lie was crazy and
came at me with a knife. / tried 10
beat him off with a chair and the girl
cried TO me to shoot him, or he would
kill me, and she would be found out.
fired at him, and struck him in the
shoulder. and he dropped the knife, and
the girl picked him up.
DIED OF BLOOD-POISONING
"ie was quiet enough after that. and
/ took him 10 a drug store and had his
wound dressed He made up a story
Of how it happened to ward Off suspi-
cion. ] promised to marry the girl.
and all was well for the time. l left
there, and learned afterward that he died
from blood-poisoning from the wound.
/ was introduced TO Kate Cling, in jan
uary, 1894. That was at a time when ]
had been suffering pretty heavy losses.
1t was about April ist, before ] was real
well acquainted with her. and then l set
out to get her money. ] secured about
$500 from her.
THAT was right about my playing the
bank. with her for a partner, and that
Chicago business. / did not lose the
money there, and did not intend to.
never took any notes nor gave any mp
10 the time when we fixed up that last
scheme.
Il hypnotized her and played her
right. She was a good business woman,
but she was not highly educated, and
wanted 10 pretend that she understood
things readily I'm that way ! could work
on her in any true mystery. Morally,
there was absolutely nothing wrong.
say honestly that while ! talked pretty
plain to her l played the noble racket
with her. and said that, even though l
was "A wild devil, 1 would not do her a
wrong for the world. l was playing her
for other purposes. you see.
FOR THIS HE WAS HUNG.
The confession then relates that Hay
ward had the mill at Hamili burned,
and that he collected the insurance. He
proposed to Adry 10 help him murder
Miss Cling. but dropped him because ne
was too white livered." Then follows
the details of placing $4,000 insurance
on Miss Ging's life. how they arranged
for flashing money in restaurants, visit
ing fortune-tellers, paying over 5000 TO
her. of which 5000 was counterfeit, turn
ing over the policies, etc.
Hayward then related how he hypnotic
ed Blixt and interested him in the plot
TO murder Miss Cling. but he claimed that
Blixt was eager 20 commit the crime.
HAYWARD took Miss cling out riding on
two occasions. showing her on the first
drive a house where he told her counter
felt money could be secured. These
drives were taken on the Saturday and
Sunday nights preceding the murder, Miss
Cling taking the bucksfin mare on each
occasion and meeting Hayward near the
West Hotel. lie intended TO smash her
head" with "r' rail each time, but
found no suitable place in which to COM
nit the murder.
The rest of the confession gives an
account Of the killing and comedies with
evidence which came out at the trial,
Hayward meeting Miss Cling al the West
Hotel, and driving with her TO the point
where he met BliXt when the latter drove
her to Lake Calhoun ana shot her.
Hayward told in the confession how he
fixed his aiibi and how ne took Miss Bart
Lesson TO the theatre. The Bartleson
clock was wrong and this accounts Tor
the discrepancy in time. which bother
ed the lawyers in the case.