New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-20
HAYIVlRD'S MANY MURDERS.
THE MURDERED OF MISS GING CONFESSED TO
THRQ:E OTHER HOMICIDEs.

THE MURDERER OF MISS GING CONFESSED TO
THREE OTHER HoMIcIDEs
Minneapolis, Dec. l9.-Harry Hayward's ante
norton statement. dictated to stenographer the
night before his execution, contains his confession
Of the Cling murder and also the startling informa-
ton that he committed three murders 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 acquaintance of counter
felters, with whom he associated for time.
Once when he went out riding In st. Louis the
horse became risky and he shot him dead He
settled for the animal with the The con-
fession then reads follows
The first murder ! committed was In San Fran
cisco in the latter part of 1898. | playing with
a Chinaman for small stakes and the Celestial was
cheating me. | jumped w and told him that !
had found nm out. and h. came at me with a
but ! could not get good swing to strike him, so
| poked the leg at him and struck him in the face.
and crashed right into his skull ana he lay ny still
After that dug hole in the place under the door
the body there never had any trouble from it,,
although the papers mad report OF the finding
After beginning I rather liked the excitement
Pasadena: 1 had formed the acquaintanc= Of a
likely girl, regular adventures. I was little
had her pat, but I could not get the cash except
by pretending had an investment for her that
and took her out riding. shot her and buried the
body. She was not very well known and was
that dav 70 his -
The last trouble before this was at FL Paso del
Norte. | was mixed up with girl one night her
crazy and Came at me with knife. tried to beat
him OFF with a chair and the girl cried to me to
shoot him or he would kill me and she would be
shoulder and he dropped the knife and the girl
jumped out of the bed and picked 1t up. He
drug store and had his wound dressed. He made
up story Of how 1t happened to ward of suspii,,
for the time. left there and learned afterward
was introduced to Kate Cling in January 1884,
That was at a time when ! had been suffering
pretty heavy losses. II was about April before |
set out to get her money. | secured about 5000
from her That was risht about my playing the
business I did not lose the money there and did
any. up to the time when we fixed up the last
scheme. | hypnotzed her and played her right:
highly educated. and yet wanted to pretend that
she understood things readily In that way could
Kate cling there was absolutely nothing wrong. |
say honestly that, while ! talked pretty PLAIN 70
that even though / was wild devil I would
her for other purposes. you see
The confession then relates that Hayward had
the mill at Hami burned and that he collected
the insurance He proposed TO Adry to help him
murder Mss Cling but dropped him because he
was too "whte-vered." Then follow the details
of placing $1,000 insurance on Miss GinSs life.
how they arranged for flashing" money in restau-
rants visiting fortune tellers paying over 5000
to her, OF which 5000 was counterfeit, turning
over the policies. etc. $500
Hayward then related how he hypnotzed Biixt
and interested him In the plot to murder MISS
Cling but he asserted that Blxt was eager TO
commit the crime. Hayward took Miss Cling out
riding 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
saturday and Sunday nights preceding the murder
Mss Cling taking the bucksk!n mare on both oc-
casicns and meeting Hayward near the West
Hote, He intended to smash her head with
sr'' rail each time. but found no suitable place In
VIII ch to commit the murder. The last time he
saw her was II o'clock the morning OF the muir
der The rest OF the confession gives an account
~ the killing and comedies with evidence which
came out at the trial. Hayward meeting Miss
Gng near the West Hotel , and driving w;th her
drove her to Lake Calhoun and shot her. Hayward
told in the confession how he fixed his abb and
how ne took Miss Barteson to the theatre. The
Rartleson clock was wrong. and this accounts for
the discrepancy in time which bothered the law
yers the