The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-07
THE HAYWARD TRIAL.
An ETort TO Confaund ntiIr. Testimony
Wa. CnArAiiinE.

An Effort to confaand nli1r. Teitimony
Was CnhraiiinE.
MINNEAPOLIS, MISS., Fab. T.-Thore
wa, an Intensely sensation scene in tho
court room to-day shortly after tho Hay
ward murder trial opened. BIiIl, tho
,eli.conie,ioi murderer, was still on the
stand. aud Mr. Erwin began hi, days
campaign by charging directly thu. the
witness had docterod his confession
given yesterday to suit public clamor.
The state objected to thi, manner OF
cro,s.examina.ion and the court sus.
taincd tho objection on the ground that
i. was an attack on character. Mr.. Err
win then askel BliEt how hs accounted
for the discrepancy between the two
statements ho had made as to iiarry's
giving him tho whisky. BliIt wanted
10 go into an explanation of this after
hi, own ideas, but Erwin insi,,ed OH N
direct answer. Again he tried to hedge.
and answering that ho was in no condi.
tion at the time OF his original comics.
sion to remember details accurately.
ANY man that Was in the condition
| was in," said BliIt, "would not be
likely 10 know whether the time hay.
ward brought the whisky was five
o'clock or half.past sevcn."
HAYWARD LAUGHS.
Hayward laughed aloud at this and
looked squarely at Blirtthe while. The
face OF tho murderer turned livid, his
voice tremblod and ho half rose from
the witness chair.
"Yss," he cried, "thi. Is no laughing
thing, tell you" Ho wa, pointing
one shaking hand straight At Hayward,
and hi, lips tre'nbled as he gssped,
'yes. you--you are the man that done 1t
all. know tell tho truth and you
know"
Hayward with chin resting on his
hand, his white teeth showing as his
lips parted in II broad grin, had enraged
the witness beyond endurance. BIiIt
was called down by the court and the
cross-exanination went Oh.
There was an immense throng present,
ut least four hundred being women. DR..
Thaddeus /. Hayward, brother OF the.ac-
cused. WAS present but did not 20 near
his brother.
1t was evident, as the cross.e1amina-
tion proceeded. that Erwin had deter
mined upon different line, OF attack
from that attempted yesterday, which
had so signally failed. Ho threatened
aud hrnr-l lNnn. ti,, ,rttrana
~ want TO explain something" said
Blixt.
mo. you DON'T" retorted tho GRIM
inal lawyer. You've babblsd long
enough you've got to get down to bust.
ness now. Did you not change your
statement as TO what time it was when
Harry brought you the whisky because
You had been informed that at tina.
very time he was with man named
Waterman"
"As sit here before God wha. have
said was OF myself. No one had told me
anything at all"
Did you make your second state
mental the point OF revolver aud
under threat?"
mo, did not"
'In your first statement you said
Harry gave you the cartridges about q;
now you say it was at T."
DID NOT CHANGE.
~ did not change; did not change!
1t was between 8 and l."
Aud then the witness was led over
the story again, in an effort to secure
contradictions.
Mr.. Erwin took up each discrepancy
between Blixts testimony yesterday
and the first confession he made where
in he asserted that Hayward had done
the actual shooting and asked the wit
ness the reason for it. Biixt's invaria-
ble reply was that he was confused ut
the time and his recollection was not
clear. He had thought it over every
day since then and all the details had
come back to him. Often times the
efforts OF the lawyer to entrap him were
foilcd by the stol:dity and simplicity OF
the witness.
For an hour in the afternoon the
nerciless Erwin kept BiiIt on the rack.
No, once did he entrnp the witness into
any serious contradiction, nor bring out
any new fnct that would be OF service 20
the defense.
Bli1t finally complained OF headache
and was excused until tomorrow. His
wife was called next. Her testimony was
mainly corroborativc OF BIIxts story of
his relations with Hayward and the
many conversations they held.
The cross-eya,nination was in pro-
gress whom court adjourned.