Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-20
HAY WARDS CRIMES.
Confession Of Three Murders Beio1l
That Of Mss Cling.
THE ANrE-MoRTEM STATEMENT.
of People Who
Were Made Away With, Or Were
svvfndled In Various Ways-A
Chinaman the First Victim.

MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, December "
Harry Hayward's ante-mortem statement,
dictated to a stenographer the night be-
fore his execution, contains his confession
OF the Cling murder, and also the startling
information that he committed three MUIR
ders before that crime. Hayward states
in his confession that he never got into
trouble until he began to gamble. This
led him to form the acquaintance OF coun-
terfeiters, with whom he associated for
some time. but he never spent much OF
the green goods. 1t was too risky.
One time when he was out riding In
st. Louis the horse became risky. and he
shot him dead. He settled for the anil
NAL with the owner. The confession then
reads:
FIRST VICTIM A CH1NAMAN.
1.-The first murder l committed was in
San Francisco, In the latter part OF 1893.
l was playing with Chnaman for small
stakes. and the Celestial was cheating me.
I jumped up and told him that l had
found him out, and he came at me with
knife. l pulled the heavy chair from
under me, but l could not get good
swing to strike him, so l 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 into the skull,
and he lay still. After that dug hole
IN the place under the floor In the shed.
broke UP the chair, and buried IT with the
body there. l never had any trouble from
1t, although the papers made report OF
the finding Of the body.
After beginning l rather liked the
excitement. Then luck followed me. and
1 went from there to Pasadena. L had
formed the acquaintance OF likely and
regular adventures. l was little press
ed for money, and the girl had saved $780,
I had her pat. but l could not get the
cash. except by pretending / 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 we'll known
and was never missed. / never heard OF
that matter from that day to this.
MURDER NUMBER THREE
1.-THE last trouble before this was at
Ell Paso del Norte. I was mixed up with
a girl there, and we used to paint things
once in a while. One night her brother
found u.s. and had us dead to rights He
was crazy, and came at me with knife.
I tried to beat him of with q chair. and
the girl cried to me to shoot him or
he would kill me. l fired at him and
struck him In the shoulder, and he drop
ped the knife, and the girl picked him up.
"Ho was quiet enough after that, and
I took him to a drugstore and had his
wound dressed. He made up story of
how 1t happened to ward OF suspicion.
| left there. and learned afterwards that
he died from blood-poisoning from the
wound.
II was introduced to Kate Cling In
January, 1894. That was at time when
l had been suffering pretty heavy losses.
1t was about April LIST before I was real
| ly we'll acquainted with her, and then
i set out to get her money. l secured
about $500 from her.
THAT was right about my playing the
bank with her for n partner. and that
Chicago business. l did not lose the
money there. and did not intend to.
never took any notes nor gave any ur
to the time when we fixed up the last
| scheme
Il hypnotized her and played her right
She was good business-woman. but
she was not highly educated, and wanted
! to pretend that she understood things
readily. In that way i could work
on her In any true mystery. Morally,
there was absolutely nothing wrong.
say honestly that. while / talked pretty
plain to her. I played the noble racket
with her. and said that. even though
was wild devil, would not do her q
wrong for the world. I was playing her
for other purposeh. you see."
BURNING OF MILL
The confession then relates that Hay
! ward had the mill at Hamil burned, and
that he collected the insurance. He
proposed to Adry TO help him murder
tffcS Cling hnf -
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 $1,000 to
her. Of which 5000 was counterfeit,
turning over the policies. etc.
Hayward then relates how he hypno-
tized Bixt and interested him in the plot
to murder Miss Cling, but he claims that
| Blixt was eager to commit the crime.
Hayward took Miss Cling out riding on
two occasions, showing her on the first
| drive 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 buckskin mare on each oc-
cssion and meeting Hayward near the
| West Hotek He intended to smash
her head with + rail each time. but
| found no suitable place In which to COM
nit the murder. The last time he saw
her was at II o'clock the morning OF the
murder.
The rest Of the confession gives an ac-
| count of the killing. ana comedies with
evidence which came out at the trial.
Hayward meeting Miss Cling at the West
Hotel. and driving with her to the point
where he met Blixt, when the latter
drove her to Lake Calhoun and shot her.
Hayward tells in the confession how
| he fixed his abili. and how he took Miss
Bartleson to the theatre. The Bartleson
clock was wrong. and this accounts for
the discrepancy In time which bothered