The record-union., 1895-12-20


MINNEAPOLIS (Mnn). Dec. 10
Harry Haywards ante-mortem state
ment dictated to a stenographer the
night before his execution contains his
confession of the cling murder. and also
the startling information that he COM
mitted three murders before that crime.
Hayward stated in mis- confession that
he never got into trouble until he began
to gamble This led him to form the
acquaintance 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 too frisky and he shot him
dead He settled for the animal with
the owner
The confession then reads:
The first murder l committed was i'll
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
lace. lie fell, and then l punched the
les into his eye, and it crashed right
into the skull and he lay still. After
that l dug hole under the floor, broke
up the chair and buried it with the body
there L never heard any trouble from
II, although the papers made a report
of the finding of the body
After beginning, l rather liked the
excitement Then luck followed me.
ana l went from there to Pasadena [
formed the acquaintance of a lively
girl regular adventuress | was a
little pressed for money and the girl had
saved SoUU. l had her pat but | could
not get the cash except by pretending
L had an investment for her that was a
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.
The last trouble before this was at
El PaSo Del NOrte. l was mixed uD
with girl there. and we used to paint
things once in a while. One night her
brother caught us together in my room.
and had us dead TO rights. He was
crazy, and came at me with a 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. l fired at him. and struck him in
the shoulder and he dropped the knife,
and the girl jumped out of bed and
picked it up. He was quiet enough
after that, and l took him to q drug
store and had his wound dressed. He
made up a story of how it happened, TO
ward off suspicion. 1 promised to
marry the girl and all was we'll for the
time. / left there. and learned after
ar6 hn ia1
from the wound.
Il was introduced to Kate Cling in
January, 1894. That was a time when
| had been suffering pretty heavy losses.
1t was about April 1st. before I was
real well acquainted with her, and then
l set out to get her money. 1 secured
about So. 800 from her. That was right
about my playing the bank with her for
a partner and that Chicago business.
l did not lose the money there. and did
not intend to. l never took any notes
or gave any up to the time we fixed up
the last scheme. 1 hypnotized her.
''She was a, good business woman,
but she was not highly educated, and
yet wanted to pretend that she under
stood things readily. In that way l
could work on her only through mys-
terry. Morally. with Kate Cling there
was absolutely nothing wrong. l say
honestly that while I talked pretty
L
with her, and said that even though [
was a wild devil, | would not do her a
wrong for the world. l was playing
her for other purposes. you see.
The confession then relates that Hay
ward had the mill at Hamlin burned,
and that he collected the insurance. He
proposed 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 isurance
on Miss Gings life, visiting fortune
tellers paying over $1,000 to her, OF
which $4,000 was counterfeit, turning
over the policies, etc.
Hayward then related how he hyp-
Noticed 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 a house where he told her
counterfeit money could be secured.
These drives were taken on the Satur-
day and Sunday nights preceding the
murder Miss Cling taking the bucksk1n
mare on each occasion, and meeting
Hayward near the West Hotel. He in
tended to smash her head with the L
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
Hayward 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 ana
shot her.
HAYWARD told how he fixed his alibi
and how he took Miss Bartleson to the
theater The Bartleson clock was wrong,
and this accounts for the discrepancy
in time which bothered the lawyers IN
the case.