St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-09

wealthy parents, reared in the lap of
leisure and luxury, and who, in a life
of idleness, had turned to gambling,
first, perhaps, for pastime, but later
followed it through a devotion that
was supreme over his conduct. even
perhaps a mania. But he consoled
himself that having been successful
partly, perhaps, through luck, more
through shrewd calculations of a
Drain to which figures are the humblest
servants. he felt that his winnings
We're the legitimate reward of acquisi-
t1Veness and mathema teal intuition.
FOR women he had perhaps less fond
ness than is usual with men of his age
and his station of life, the gaming
table being the one mistress whom he
! had wooed.
When Harry T. Hayward and Cath
| crime GlnS met, there were reasons
why each should turn toward the
| other. The woman beheld in the man.
representative of the higher social
circle, courtly, modest and genial
lelloW, prepossessing loiterer in the
charmed circle of society, so-called.
She had seen enough of the world to
| know the advantages of a standing in
this smaller coterie, and she knew
only too well the advantages of wealth
In obtaining the entree to this, the
seeming goal of social ambition. Har-
ry Hayward, coming with the suavitv
or sincere admirer, the frankness
and condolences of a friend and the
loyal attentions of a lover. offered her
| way to the social success that no
woman ever scorned if it could be at
tanned conscientiously and honorably.
On the other hand, Harry HAYWARD
admired her as a woman in whom
the sentlmentality, supposed to dwell
In the feminine mind more firmly than
IN that OF the male mortal, was subor-
ulhated TO the practical ideas which
were to him the cardinal virtues of
mankind, the more commanding I'm a
woman as they were the more rare
mat ne was interested in her for this
reason none deny. He trusted her he
says, because she had been successful
ana ne felt that she would continue
SO 10 be. This was the man who, singu-
iarly, was first to announce the motive
of the murder-money.
Almost at the very minute when the
bloody bit Of lead was being taken
from the dim eye of death, Harry Hay-
ward told her friends and his own. not
only that she had been murdered. but
that she was murdered for her money.
Nay, he goes further. A police officer.
ignorant of the relations of either. re-
marked that 1t was strange a woman
should carry with her at night money
enough to inspire such a murderous de-
n. tIu
ward, at was not her money she had
on her. 1t was other money"
He told other things. too. He had
loaned her, he said, $1,000 with which
to start a larger business, and for Sc
curlty he had taken an insurance pol
Icy on her life. She had placed the
money in the safety deposit vaults,
and II 1T was not to be found there
then he had been jobbed, done up,
his $1,000 had gone to HI" as he ex
pressed 1t. The insurance policy,
IN spite of his explanation, aroused
suspicion.
1t was the only palpable motive for
the murder. The money that had been
loaned Kate Cling had been seen by
three living persons, and three only
Hayward, Jack Wetherspoon, the
oneida block elevator man, and Claus
Blixt, the Ozark block engineer. both
of whom witnessed the dead woman S
signature ten days before
But that Hayward could not have
committed the murder himself, how
ever strong his motive, became ap-
parent within a few hours for at the
very minute when Erhardt found the
body, Harry Hayward, with a young
lady, was sitting in the Grand opera
house, on whose stage was being en-
acted that essentially frivolous pro-
duction, Hoyt's "a Trip to China
town. But so strong was the argII-
ment of the insurance, and so familiar
was Hayward, apparently, with all
the affairs of the dead woman, that
the mayor and the county attorney
took the responsibility of subjecting
him to a searching inquisition. From
10 o'clock on the morning following
the murder until o'clock the next
morning scarcely for an instant was
the fierce fire relaxed; and then only
for moment, while messengers
were dispatched to make inquiries
of various persons whose relations,
social or otherwise, with the de-
ceased had been discovered dur
ing the examination of HAYWARD.
But one. by one they proved conclusive
alibis, and the insurance motive was
again left alone. Still, there was no
evidence sufficient to warrant the ar
rest of the suspect, however strongly
the inquisitors might be convinced of
his guilt, and after a consultation be-
tween Mayor Eustis, Assistant County
Attorney Hall and Chief of Police
Smith, the first-named official should
cred the responsibility of OBTAINING"
Harry Hayward, who slept the rest of
the night on a lounge in the office of
the chief of police. That day at 10
o'clock he was released. That day he
was at liberty, although any evident
for fight would have been
reported to police head
quarters, for, although free, he was
not relieved from espionage.
That afternoon he went to the funeral.
and that night for the first time after
the crime he slept at his home The !
next morning he called at the mayors
office and revealed one new phase of