Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-02-28
IT CAN BE. DONE
HAYWARD HAD TIME TO COMMIT
THE MURDER.
A Reporter Demonstrates That Har-
~ Could Have Met Blixt and Miss
Cling I'm the Eleven Minutes
That Are Yet UnaccYy hted
For, -

That Are Yet UnaccYy hted
1.~-.T
IS THE pRosEcur1oN's THEORY
CORRECT.
The Work of the Reporter Indicates
That the State Ii ON the
Right Track.
Minneapolis. Feb. 24.-Was it posi-
BILE for Harry Hayward in the eleven
minutes allowed by the state to have
made the trip from the, Ozark to the
point on the Kenwood boulevard
where Blixt testities he and Harry met
Miss Cling, just before the committal
of the murder. and then to have re-
turned to the Bartleson residence?
With a view of answering this ques-
ton Il reporter went over the ground
Harry Hayward is supposed to have
covered in his route between the three
points, the the result of the trieals
made was. to answer the question in
the affirmative. This would seem to
indicate that the theory of the prosccu-
ton Is correct, at least in this particu-
lar, and that the defense is in the
wrong when the assertion is made
that the distance attributed to the
favorite son Of the Hayward family
on that particular trip to ana from
the kenwood boulevard could not have
been accomplished within the time al
lotted.
The trials were made under ditfi-
cultics, and in the results Of the dis
lance covered all allowance must be
made for this fact. The walks were
icy. a wind was blowing and the re-
porter was without overshoes. and his
stride was hampered by a long and
heavy overcoat. Necessarily loss of
time was the result. In the four trials
| on distance the route was that prob
ably taken by Hayward
On That Eventful Night
was followed, and the benefit Of every
doubt was thrown in his favor. The
| four trials were made on the following
stretches:
First-From the Ozark out Hennepin
to the intersection Of Lyndale avenue
with Kenwood boulevard, cutting
across the vacant lot right opposite the
park to reach that point just as Blixt
says Harry did.
Second-A return, also on foot, to
the Ozark Ivy the same route.
Third-From the Ozark to the Bartel-
son residence at the corner Of Chest
nut avenue and Tw elfth street, and
Fourth-From the Kenwood boule-
ward to the Ozark on the car.
The first trip to the Kenwood boule-
ward was made in five minutes and
| fyr-n no 1f
por1er being no faster than a brisk
walk. The watch was held very care
fully on the two terminal points, and
| the time taken was that exactly be-
tween the steps of the Ozark and the
corner of Lyndale and the boulevard.
On the return there was wind to
face part of the way and a slight hill
at the turn of Hennepin avenue on
Mary Place and Hennepin to climb.
This second trip was accomplished in
five minutes and ten seconds. The
cut taken by Hayward across the va
cant lot opposite the park and next to
the corner of the boulevard and Hen
nepin was also taken by the reporter,
though there was snow and ice on the
ground. and more time was consumed
in reaching the boulevard by this way
than would have been required to go
around the corner.
1t Can Be Done.
From the Ozark to Bartelson's resi-
dence, q distance of four blocks. the
time was three minutes and forty-fve
seconds, but the rate of speed was
very much slower, in fact it was a
very deliberate pace, walking rs fast
as the reporter did going out Henne-
pin avenue. Fifty-fve seconds could
have been cut off the time. The
fourth experiment on the distance
from the boulevard to the Ozark rid
ing on the car gave Il record Of two
minutes and ten seconds.
| Granted that Harry Hayward pur-
sued a very ordinary pace to and from
the Kenwood boulevard, what would
have been the time for the total dis
lance according to the trials made this
morning, with due allowance for the
difference in conditions? Easily in
side of eleven minutes. and then, too,
a return on the car comes in as an i'm
portant element in time. There are
four lines out Henrepin avenue-the
| Lyndale and Monroe, KenWood, Har-
riet and the Harriet short line Thir-
ty. first street. and the schedule of
these cars is so arranged that one of
them would pass the boulevard near
the time Harry Hayward supposedly
started on his return. In such an
| event he would have ridden to
Twelfth street and that would have
made his time on the car about two
minutes and twenty seconds. but it
| would have also taken that much time
of the necessary amount required to
| walk from the Ozark to the corner of
Twelfth street. Allow 5:15 for the
| trip out and $50 for the ride in and
three minutes fiat for the walk Of
! three short blocks to Bartelson's. and
| there still remains 4 margin of twenty
| five seconds. and this does not take
into consideration the difference Of
time between watches by which it is
shown that Harry Hayward has
eleven minutes that he does not ac-
count for.
ROsebery III.