The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-20
MONEY AND MURDER
THESE WERE THE PASSIONS OF
HARRY HAY"WARD,S
LIFE.
HIS ANTE E-MORTEM STATEMENT

II Contains 30, 900 Words aud isaRe-
markabie Documents " Written in the
Same FIippant style That Charac-
terized his Testimony on the Stand--
Had Killed Five Different Persons
and all for Robbery Refused to linz
plicate Others in his COME ssion.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Decl9.-Thc
ante-morten statement of Harry n.
Hayward the full text of which, max
ing thirty thousand words, the Times
viii print tomorrow morning i'm full,
is in many respects a most remarkable
| document. 1t was made under the
most formal conditions and with
solemn assertions on the murderers'
part that he was telling the truth.
Not only does Hayward claim to
have murdered during his brief career
no less than five different persons, but
! in describing the various tragedies in
which he figured, he shows an utter alb
sence of human feeling and pleasure
in his achievements that mark him as
an unusual type of criminal. The Ian.
| guage used in describing his criminal
| adventures is i'm the same careless,
flippant style that characterized his
| testimony on the stand.
His first murder was that of Carrie
Hass, near Pasadena, California, 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 ] shot her and buried her.
| That is all of that. I look at it in this
way. 1t was not much Of an amount.
/! 1t vvaS 500 and some orders, that She
had | got the money. She would
| naturally holler and / looked at IL that
she would be better off if dead"
lie then goes on 10 describe how he
| got her money. on some preteNt in
| weighing her out ON "A drive in noun
tains and how ne shot her. Ii was
! tizzle he said, because he did not fig
| ure it out as carefully as he would have
! done later She did not die at once,
! but topped around. He buried her as
| best he could, but worried about it af-
forwards and hired man two weeks
| afterwards to 60 out and put her in
/ boA aAh tAAbN ~ AtAAO tltG itOi at IOS
| 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. There was a girl i'm Minneapolis
whom he knew well and who had So
| 900 a year. He planned to Kill her. but
| did not see there was any way he could
| get her money. But ne longed TO do
| the deed. she used to make me SO
| damned mad" said Hayward, that /
wanted 70 choke her. | can under
stand how Duwant killed those two
girls i'm San Francisco with pleasure"
Once when tending bar at Long
Branch he had killed "A consumptiye
man who came there and who had
| money. The consumptye 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
| committed by shooting, too and the
body was thrown into the river. Then
there was the Chinamau killed in
gambling quarrel and the brother of
the Mexican girl at FL 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 peo-
pie. Catherine Cling had never bother
ed him after death but the girl whose
brother he had killed once appeared to
him before the Cling killing and said:
Harry. lookout, lookout"
The object of the Cling murder was
money and hatred. He hated the girl
because She was so stingy. He had OBJ
tanned So 500 of her money and she was
mean and suspicious. She had a way
of putting her hands ON him, and
pinchin@ 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 BliXt and Adry ON the
stand were practically correct, and
Harry eXonerated them from all crimi-
nal connection with any of his
schemes. BliXt, he said, was surely
hvpnotized and was not responsible.
He felt sure that the man should not
have been given but two or three years
in prison instead of life sentence.
On closing his statement, Hayward
said: II have told the truth, so help
me, God-if there is a God If there is,
He certainly won't blame me, as L have
honestly followed the dictates of my
conscience. Don't say that I'm sorry,
for ! am not. | 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 counter
feits a good deal, but would not tell
what he knew as it would endanger
others.
AN0N.1, DO 4 THING TO HIN"