The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-15
Effort Will BE Made to Show that
Adry Is Insane and His Heart
Filled with Deadly Enmity.
HARRY TO GO ON THE STAND
AND ENDEAvOR TO CLEAR HIMSELF
OF THE CHARGE OF MURDER.
Testimony of the MOrgue Keeper and
the Undertaken Who Had Charge
OF Catherine GinE's Remains.


trial to-day. and there was eager curiosity
to learn what course attorney Erwin and
his assistants would pursue The defendants
demeanor on entering the court room was
positively jubilant. He nodded to some lady
friends in the front row, and then, espying
his mother, went UP to her and said, Good
morning, little mother" and kissed her up
turned lips. When John Day Smith arose
to address the jury in his deliberate fashion
Harry faced squarely around to the jurors
and scanned their faces as the words fell
from the lips of his counsel. Before the
court opened he found time to tell the
porters that the report in morning paper
to the fleet that he had remarked they are
going to hang me- was unqualifiedly false,
and that he had never given utterance to
any such statement.
Attorney Smith, in addressing the jury,
called attention to number of things the
State had promised at the outset to prove,
which. he said, it had not proved. 1t had
not showed that Hayward had secured all
of Miss Gings money, as she had a balance
in bank at the time of her DEATH it had not
shown that he had gone riding with her the
Wednesday and Saturday evening before the
murder, as promised. Mr.. Smith declared
that the insurance transactions, the acquir-
ing of an insurance interest and the waiyure
of the assault clause, of which much had
been made by the State, were all in the or
binary course of business and not in any
way unusual. The sweat-box method Of
wringing so-called confessions from Blixt
and Adry Hayward were referred to in de-
mandatory terms. The defense admitted
that Harry was gambler, and deplored the
fact, but asserted that he was not on trial
for gambling, but for murder.
Gentlemen of the jury exclaimed the
attorney, ''the mute form of Catherine Cling
lying at the county morgue gives the lie to
Claus A. Blixt. The evidence presented by
the defense will fairly prove to you that
Blixt pounded that woman's head almost to
a jelly before he fired the shot, and then
only fired it when he thought she was not
dead. When BliXt came the stand his
Honor, ex-Mayor Eustis, stepped up to him
and shook hands with him with a smiling
face. could not help but think that it was
to give him character before the jury. I
confess you could not have touched the
bloody hand of the murderer for large
sum of money. I believe in the religion of
Jesus Christ, who has promised to forgive
sins, but has not promised to remove the
scars. Such actions as those of Blixt are
travesty
SAYS ADRY IS INSANE.
There is another witness with whom we
are confronted here who is peculiar in
many respects. We will show you that he
iA0o ACd a SHl1ticSS lie he WAS lnVOtVeQ
In this case at the beginning and put
through the sweat process and showed
the proverbial jealousy of the elder brother
You will remember that in the beginning
of his testimony he looked with pity on
his brother and said: / do not blame him
for making, the best, defense he cam You
VIII remember how, later, when his mother
was sitting yonder-that mother who has
borne him and watched over him with ten
der solicitude-he told of a quarrel he had
with her and other members of the family,
and had said to that mother: Why did you
raise such litter of pups? He was a
peculiar man in many respects, ana had
diathesis from which he could sep
arate himself. There have been experts
here, both for the State and the defense,
and they were examined on that point.
There have been less than six members
ca see We're IN We We ey b
Harry is much more sane than his brother
Adry.
what is the theory of the defense Gentle
men, we have no theory. Theories have
of the guilt of the defendant beyond a
reasonable doubt We win also establish
cq 3e he ao s dG Harry 5aye baD m tS
Kenwood boulevard giving Blixt directions.
We shall bring out some of the testimony
torney's office. and shall show that there
was a suspicious character in the city
but he did not use the information. We
expect to compel the bloody clothes found
on the shores of Lake Calhoun to be
the stand In his own behalf on the heel
of the testimony given by Adry Hayward
and Blixt. and that's all there is in this
Harry Hayward comes into this court"
concluded Mr. Smith smith; confronted 10y eth, the
with deadly enmity, and Blixt, who, with
perjured tongue, has sought to conceal and
shield his real confederate All we ask is
that the sunlight ee Gods truth shall be
let in this most remarkable truth"
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE
John Walsh, keeper of the morgue, was
the first witness and he described the Incl
dents connected with the bringing of Miss
Ging's body to the morgue. He undressed
and washed the body Immediately, and, in
answer to Mr. Erwin's questions described
minueely the clothing found on the body,
the wounds and where the blood was found
Terrence Connolly, jr.. an undertaken,
was called and produced the clothing which
had been turned over to him by Walsh. 1t
developed, much to the astonishment and
sack had been cleaned. The lining still
showed blood stain. The knotted blue veil,
sna eo nae With blood the jury and a
torneys examined all the clothing carefully
for blood stains
the examination of a number OF police Off
GERS, who swore that there were pointed
shoe tracks and buggy wheel marks at the
scene of the tragedy. There was nothing
especially significant in that, for the officers
had two buggies at the scene and the doctor
had driven one.
Then the alibi theory was sprung, and
forty minutes were spent Questioning the
usher at the Grand Opera House over a
point which the State will admit. that Harry
was at the theater with Miss Bartleson the
night of the murder.
Ole Thorson said he lived at the house
where Blixt said he called the night of the
murder, and stated that there was light
burning there all night, and no one called or
knocked that night.
Tomorrow morning George Hitchcock, who
took Blixt's state ments, will be examined in
an attempt to impeach BliXt in cases where
he stated that he did not make statements
credited to him in the shorthand report The
defense expects to show the several contra
dictions pointed out in his cross-examination
by Mr.. Erwin.
CANADIAN INSURANCE CASE.