St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-12


bar, has had many remarkable clients.
He has long since met some very queer,
remarkable and unexplainable human
beings. but he never fought for more
than one Harry Hayward.
MIR. Erwin, you have had great ex-
perience with criminals and you have
had some very singular specimens as
clients, but Harry Hayward beats
them all, does he not?" was asked of
the great judicial actor two or three
weeks after the trial began. when all
the world knew of Harry Hayward,s
singularly composed demeanor in the
court room.
"Innocencei innocencer' declared Mr..
Erwin in manner and voice almost
convincing in themselves. But if it is
not innocence, then Harry HAYWARD
Is lndeed the most singular and phe-
nomenal man in the world
This brief statement was sufficient
TO show that Mr.. Erwin was not i'm
pressed with his clients innocence
ana IL Is this little declaration upon
the part of the attorney, as well as
other things which have transpired,
winch make the writer conclude that
Harry Hayward never told his attor-
neys or any one of them, the real story
OF the crime. Certain it is, that Mr..
Erwin consulted his client but very
little. If the convicted man never re-
lated the terrible story to the one in
whom he must have placed his only
nope, 1t was certainly in keeping with
MS most proniunced characteristic
that Of secretiveness. And yet he does
not talk like the absolutely nen-com-
muncatlVe man who is accused of
serious crime, looks upon all outsiders
with suspicion, and will answer the
reportorial inquiry gruf1ly, 81 have
nothing to say, not a word. Harry
Hayward will talk, and would much
prefer to remain awake and converse
with friend or acquaintance than to
go to bed and get that rest and sleep
which would seem necessary for such
a terrible ordeal as that through which
he has just passed.
But talk as much as he will, and
generally upon the muder, and the
trial, he has not been known to make
a Slip of the tongue. He does not ap-
pear to be guarded or cautious either
He would answer questions promptly,
speak of the Inconsistencies of certain
estimony-particularl of his brother
Adry's and of Blixt-assert his abso-
Lutte innocence, and say it all in ap-
parently as honest and innocent a
manner as he could utter the most i'm
material statements upon common
place topics.
If Harry Hayward possesses a homi-
cidal mania-as many believe, and
which many of the remarkable condi-
r L
is SO peculiar as to make it possible
for him to plan and to carry out a
murder, and yet to have upon his
mind no weight of guilt or RESPONSE
bility. Possibly experts may decree
that such a proposition is ridiculous
an utter physical impossibility, may be-
l admit there is one great argument
against the proposition that Harry
Hayward possesses a mania for homi-
cides. 1t is generally supposed or
agreed that human beings who are
possessed of homicidal mania-a love
for human blood-letting-want to COM
NIT the act of murder themselves, and
that they derive little or no satisfaction
from having some one else commit the
crime. The actual state OF Harry
Hayward's truly singular mind may
never be revealed to the world.
the prisoner does not consider him
self as particularly nervy man. Pos
slbly he has no nerves, if a human
being can be constructed on that some
times convenient plan. Here is the
way Harry himself alludes to thi:
matter of nerves.
They say i have great nerve.
don't think have any more nerve thar
the average man. Possibly | have
though. They seem to think this com
posture comes from the use of drugs
They talk about my being an opium o.
morphine user. / do not use either o.
these drugs, and never did. No rela
tive, friend or acquaintance ever saw
me use any of these drugs, neither ha.
any one seen me with any such drue
In my possession. Some one asked m,
| II | did not school or cultivate m,
| nerve. Possibly l have accomplished
something through mental effort in tn,
way of making myself nervy. TIL,
| world now knows l used to gamble. bu
l was not the gambler people now be
lieve me to have been. Whenever l de
clded to enter gambling place an(
have $500 or 81, 900 that cared to risk,
| would look at it in about this way
| Now, l am going against another man.
game where the chances are at leas
three out of five against me. If / los,
| this money, as the chances are that
| will, l must not allow myself to be dis
| turbed in the least. There is no doub
| but that man can accomplish a gooC
| deal through a little mental effort
You can get yourself to believe almos
anything. For instance, / never looked
| for any other verdict than guilty, al
| though L had declared my belief in &C
| quittal so often during the trial that
almost believed it myself. In this wa.
I buoyed myself up during the lon,
| trial. Notwithstanding the verdict,
solemnly assert my innocence"
| Probably the most remarkable thin,
about Harry Hayward is what appear
to be his almost utter lack of vindic
| tiveness and malice. After all the ter
rible things said about him on the wit
| ness stand he is seldom heard saying
harsh word about any one. Shortl!
| after the trial began he remarked tina
| about the only man against whom h,
had any special feeling was ex-Mayo
| Eustis.
why do you pick out Mayor Eus
| tis?' was asked.
Because he went at me as he die
| during that famous inquisition and be
cause the first question which he pu
to me was asked in a manner which
showed he thought 1 was guilty.
A few days after the eX-mayor gave
his testimony at the trial, Harry said
81 do not feel towards Eustis the
way 1 did some. time ago."
He went on the stand and told what
he had to say in a plain, manly fash
ion.
The condemned mans feelings
towards his brother, Adry, are indi-
Gated in this statement:
81 am very sorry 1 said anything tC
Adry in court that day. 1 did not say
as much as the papers represented.
wish 1 had not said anything. After
all my brother had done against me
really sworn my life away bear him
no i'll will or malice. There is some
talk of the grand jury inquiring into