Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-12-27
HE HAD MURDERED FIVE
Ante-Mortem Statement of Hav
ward Rev sIation.
A DESCRIPTION OF HIS CRIMES
Chipaman, Mexican, Consumptiv and
Two Women on the List
of Victims.

Minneapolis, Dec 19.-The ante-mor-
tenn statement of Harry E. Hayward.
the full text of which makes 10000
words, the Times with 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 that he was
telling the truth. 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 pleas
ure in his achievements that marks him
as an unusual type of criminal.
His first murder was that of Carrie
Hass, near Pasadena. Cal, and he de-
scribes the affair thus: II met this girl
at dance, and, to cut it short, killed
her. She had money, and l shot her and
buried her. 1t was $500 that she had.
got the money. She would naturally
holler, and looked at it that 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 a little bit on the sporting or
der 1t has always been in my head to
kill person and not look in their face
when they are dead, but there's that
| mind business that leaves an oppression
| on your mind. That Is what makes muir
| derers confess. The conscience bothers
| them"
| He then goes on to describe how he
| got her money on some Dretext, in
weighed her out to drive in the mount
aims, and how he shot her. She did not
die at once. but Topped around. He
buried her the best he could, but wor-
ried about it afterwards, and hired a
| man two weeks after to go out and put
her in 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. Mon
cy, he said, was his first object in life,
| girls the second and travel the third.
There was a girl in Minneapolis with
whom he was going and who had $4,000
year. He had planned to kill her, but
did not, because there was no way of
getting the money. But he longed to
10 the deed.
"She used to make me so damned
mad" said Hayward, that 1 wanted to
choke her. / can understand how Dur
rant killed those two girls in San Fran
cisco with pleasure"
KILLED A CONSUMPTIVE.
Once, when tending bar in Long
Branch, he had killed a consumptive
man who was there and who had mon
ey The consumptive had money and
wanted to die. The name, Harry re-
fused to tell on the ground that he had
an accomplice who might get into trou-
BILE now, but this murder was by shoot
ing too, and the body had been thrown
into the water. Then there was Chi
naman killed in a gambling quarrel and
the brother of a Mexican girl at Paso
del Norte, and lastly, Miss Cling.
One of Harry's auditors asked If he
ever saw spooks. He replied that he
, | often saw faces, but not of real people.
Catherine 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"
The object of the Cling murder was
money and hatred. He hated the girl
{ because she was so stingy. He had OBJ
! tanned $500 of her money. and, mean
and suspicious, she had a way of put
ting her hands on him and pinching
him that made him want to choke her.
| and he could scarcely Keep from 1t until
the time was ripe.
, The stories of Blixt and Adry on the
stand were practically correct, and
Harry exonerated Adry from all GRIM
inal connection with any of his schemes.
, Blixt he said, was surely hypnotized
and was not responsible. He felt that
: the man should have been given but
two or three years in prison, instead OF
life sentence.
. In closing his statement, Hayward
said: II have told the truth, so help me
| God-if there is God. If there Is, He
| certainly won't blame me, as l have
i honestly followed the dictates of my
: | conscience. Don't say l am sorry, for
: am not. have made my bed and will
lie in it without kicking. have had my
fun and will pay for II"
! He admitted knowing a lot abou
green goods and had used counterfeit
a good deal, but would not tell what h
knew as it would endanger others.