The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
Boosted of Having Put to Death
No Less Than Four Human
Beings.
SLEW A CHINESE IN THIS CITY
Among His Other Exploits Was the
Killing of a Young Woman at
Pasadena.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Dec. 19.-Harry
Havward's ante-mortem statement, die
tated to stenographer the night before
his execution, contains his confession oi
the Cling murder and also the startling in
formation that he committed three mur-
ders before that crime.
Hayward stated in his confession that
he never got into trouble until he began to
gamble. This led him to form the ac-
quaintance of counterfeiters, with whom
he associated for some time, but he never
spent much of the green goods; it was too
risky.
One time, when he was out riding in st.
Louis the horse became frisky and he shot
it. He settled for the animal with the
owner. The confession then reads:
"The first murder | committed was in
San Francisco, in the latter part of 1898.
| was playing with Chinaman for small
stakes and the Celestial was cheating me.
l jumped up and told him l had found
him out and he came at me with knife
l pulled the heavy chair from under me,
but couldn't get a good swing to strike
him. so [ poked the leg at him and struck
him in the face. He fell and then I
punched the leg into his eye and it crashed
right into the skull, and he lay still.
After that dug hole in the place, under
the floor in the shed, and broke up the
chair and buried it with the body there. I
never heard any trouble from IL, although
the papers made report of the finding of
the body.
AFTER beginning rather liked the ex-
oil Thor, 1t1a1- foIlouroH md
went from there to Pasadena. I had
formed the acquaintance of Lively girl, a
regular adventures. was little pressed
for money and the girl had saved $500. |
had her pat, but l could not get the cash
except by pretending had an investment
for her that was money-maker. She
turned over the money and L took her out
riding, shot her and buried the body. She
was not very we'll known and was never
missed. l never heard of that matter from
that day to this.
1.-THE last trouble before this was at Ell
Paso Del Norte. l was mixed up with a
girl there, and we used to paint things
once in a while. One night her brother
came at me with knife. tried to beat
him off with chair, and the girl cried to
me to shoot him or he would kill me and
she would be found out. / fired at him
and struck him in the shoulder and he
dropped the knife, and the girl jumped
and picked it up. He was quiet enough
after that, and took him to drugstore
and had his wound dressed. He made up
a story how it happened to ward off sus-
picion. left there, and learned afterward
that he died of blood poisoning from
the wound.
II was introduced to Kate Cling in jan
uary, 1894. That was a time when had
been suffering pretty heavy losses. 1t was
about April l before l was real well
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 partner and that Chi
cago business. / did not lose the money
there and did not intend to. 1 never took
any notes or gave any up to the time when
we fixed up the last scheme. hypnotized
her.
'She was a good business woman, but
she was not highly educated, and yet
wanted to pretend that she understood
things readily. In that way I could work
on her only through mystery. Morally
with Kate Cling there was absolutely moth
ing wrong. l say honestly that, while I
talked pretty plain to her, played the
noble racket with her, and said that even
though I was wild devil would not do
her wrong for the world. was playing
her for other purposes, you see."
The confession then relates that Hay
ward had the mill at Hamin burned, and
that he collected the insurance. He pro-
posed TO Adry to help him murder Miss
Cling, but dropped him because he was too
"white livered." Then follows the details
of placing $4,000 on Miss Ging's life, how
they arranged for flashing money in
restaurants, visiting fortune tellers, pay
ing over $1,000 to her, of which $4,000 was
counterfeit turning over the policies, etc.
Hayward tnen related how he hypno-
tized Blixt and interested him in the plot
to murder Miss Cling. but he claimed 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 Saturday and Sunday
taking the buckskin mare on each occa-
sion and meeting Hayward near the West
Hotel. He intended to 'smash" her head
with the "T" rail each time, but found no
suitable place in which to commit the
murder. The last time he saw her was IL
o'clock the morning of the murder.
The rest of the confession gives an ac-
count of the killing and comedies with the
evidence that came out at the trial, Hay
ward meeting Miss Cling near 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 told in the confession how he
fixed his alibi, and how he took Miss
Bartleson to the theater. The Bartleson
clock was wrong. and this accounts for the
in time which bothered the
lawyers in the case.