The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-20

HARRY HAYwARD,s CONFESSION.
In His Brief Criminal Career he Murdered
Five Persons.

Five Persons.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, Dec. 19.-The
ante norton statement of Harry T.
hayward, the full text OF which M king
10000 words, and which the Times will
print tomorrow In full, is, in many
respects, most remarkable document.
IL was made under the most formal CON.
ultIohs' ana with solemn assertions on
tne mufderer's part that he was telling
the truth. Not only does HAYWARD
claim to have murdered, during his brief
career: no less than Eve different per-
sons, but. in describing the various
tragedies In which he figured, he shows
an utter absence OF human feeling and
an unusual type of criminal.
HIS nrss murder was that of Carrie
Haas, near Pasadena, CAL, and he des-
cribes the affair thus: "I met this pirl
at dance and. to Gus 1t short, killed
her. She had money and I shot her
and buried her. That is all Of that. It
was not much OF an amount; 1t was STOo
ana some jewelry. She would naturally
nolier ana looked at IL that she would
be better off IL dead"
He then goes on to describe how he
got her money on some pretext; in
weighed her out to drive in the noun
tains and how he shot her. It was o
hzzle, he said, becaueo he did not figure
1t out as carefully as no would have
done later. She did not die a once, but
Hoped around. He buried her as best
he could, but worried about is sitter
wards and hired man two wesks AZ
forwards to go out and put her body in
box and throw 1t into the port at Los
angeles. dc knew this ANS name, but
on the principle OF honor among thieves
would not tell it, Nothing had ever
como Of tho matter.
Money, he said, was hie frat object in
life, girls the second, and travel the
third, There was girl in Minneapolis
with whom no WAS acquainted that had
$4,000. Flo planned to kill her, but did
not because there WAS no way he could
got her money. But hs longed to do
the deed. "She used to make mo 90
id mad" said Hayward, "thst l
wanted to choke her. can understand
how Durrsnt killed those two girls in
San Francisco with pleasure"
Onco ct Long Branch no had killed 6
consumptive man who came there and
who had money. The consumptive had
money and wanted to die. Harry re-
fused to tell the mans name, on the
ground that he had an accomplish who
might got into trouble now. But this
murder was by shooting too and the
body was thrown into the river. Then
there was Chinaman he killed in a
gambling quarrel, and the brother of
the Mexican girl at El Paso, Del Norte.
and laHtlv, Miss Cling. s.
One OF Harry's auditors asked him il
he ever saw apooks. He replied that no
| often SAW faces, but no real people.
| Catherine Cling had never bothered him
but tho girl whose brother he had killed
once appeared to him before the Cling
| killing, and said: Harry, look out,
look out" The object of.the Cling m ur.
der was money and hatred. He hated
the girl because sho was stiugy. He
had obtained S. 500 OF hor money and
she wac mean and suspicious.
She had o way of putting her hands
on him and pinching him that mado
him 80 made ne wanted to choke her,
and could ecArcely keep from It until
the time was ripe. The stories Of Blixt
and Adry ca the stand were prac,ic ally
correct and Harry eSonorased Adry
from all criminal connection with mia
ocbomes. He said Blixt WAS hypnot!zsd
and Was net responsible.