St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-15
He is NOT RIGHT.
a Committee of Physicians
Anxious to Examine
Harry Hayward.
THEY THINK HIM d FREAK
Who Is Liable to Become
Violently Insane at Any
Time.
THEY THINK HIM d FREAK
NOT CRAZY ON GAMBLING.
ATTORNEY 20shumaker Says
HayWard's Head Is Level
on Faro Bank.

There is something peculiar in the
refusal Of the attorneys who de-
Tended Hayward to entertain the
DRY of insanity to account for his
crime. Thousands of people who
have followed the case from its in
ception, no matter in what walk of
life their lot is cast, are inclined to
the opinion that Hayward is in
sane. If they do not go so far as to
declare that a sane man could not
have committed such crime and
maintain the colossal Indifference
that Hayward has perpetually
shown, they are quick to say he is
mot human or that there is
something wrong with him.
The astonishing thing about Hay
ward is that he has always spoken
in the highest terms of the dead
woman, but never once has he be-
trayed the slightest regret over the
deep damnation of her taking off
When the doctors who conducted the
autopsy were testifying to her hor-
rible wounds, the sickening details
of which could not be listened to
by physicians without expressions
of pity, Hayward leaned forward in
his chair and showed a lively inter
est in the grueSome testimony. On
the afternoon when Dr. Nippert was
on the stand, he laughed in horri-
bic way several times, and not a
trace of feeling was visible in his
cold face.
In view of this extraordinary be-
haVior and singular actions, it is
surprising that at the last moment
his attorneys did not make the in
sanity plea for him. But this, the
possible chance he had to save his
neck from the moose, they carefully
avoided
Attorney Shumaker, Mr. Erwin's
able assistant, says that Hayward's
head is perfectly level. Some peo-
pie imagine" said he the other day,
that Hayward is insane on gam
bling. There is not a word of truth
in 1T. He has more sense about
such things than most men of nv
acquaintance. He always controlled
himself. There SIRE dozens of gam
blerS in Mir 1eapoliS and st. Paul in
whom the propensity to play faro
bank and all games of chance is
twice as strong as it is in him. 1
have talked with him, and he has
no uncomfortable .infatuation for
the game. If he is insane, it is
certainly not on the subject of
gambling
Hayward's case has excited great
interest among physicians and med
1cal specialists of all kinds. and it
is understood a number of them will
call upon the remarkable criminal
in a few days for the PURGE of
diagnosing his case in an attempt
to sound his abnormal mentality. A
prominent physician, in speaking of
the matter last evening, said:
Il should like very much to examine
Hayward. He is either moral mons
ter or an irresponsible maniac in GER
tain things. l am not one of those
sentimentalists who believe in turning
such men loose upon society On the
plea that they are insane But [
"ouiu nave MIN locked up safely
where he can do no harm. If he is
crazy, confinement in an asylum or
the penitentiary would develop the
fact in comparatively short time,
and, If l mistake not, he will break
down before the day of his execution.
He is big, strong man, and in ex-
cellent health, and nothing has as yet
occurred to affect him deeply But in
mind like his, trifle might upset
1t. There are innumerable cases
where abnormal natures like his have
given way for no apparent reason
In other words, some petty disap-
pointment or annoyance is likely to
accomplish what extraordinary ex-
element, such as he doubtless ex-
perienced during the trial, could not
do