St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-12
so HIS ATTORNEY SAYS.
His Vision Was Frightfully
Distorted on That M
Fatal Night. 10
CARS LOOKED LIKE HOUSES
Blixt Will Try to Save His
Miserable Neck From IT, Z
the Moose. 81

the term, but it is pretty definitely
settled that it will come up April Is
before Judge Pond. How long it will
last is less easy to calculate, but
hopes are entertained that it will
be cleared up in about half the time
that has been occupied by the Hay
ward trial. There has been some
gossip even to the effect that Blixt
will plead guilty and throw himself
on the mercy of the court. But his
attorney, in an interview yesterday,
set at rest all such stories. I
I'VE will proceed at once for trial."
he said. There may be some diff
Guilty in getting jury, but 1 don't
anticipate that this work will take
over month. The fact is, it should
take a much shorter time, and might
even be concluded the first day.
For my part, do not care how many
newspapers or how much in the
newspapers the jurors have read.
My client has a defense which /
think any intelligent jury cannot
help seeing the force of. 1t will not
mental control-the same force that
Harry Hayward used over Catherine
Cling. This was a combination of
whisky, mental power and nitro
glycerine, the laSt-named element
being the most effective one. The
story about $4,000 which he was to
receive for killing the woman is not
II Il -,.J n
with the nitro-glycerine in that bot
tie of whisky which he gave him the
night of the murder. We will have
medical experts to testify to the eff
feet of nitro-glycerine on the human
system. 1t is a Stinulant prescribed
sometimes in medical practice, but
the reaction is so pronounced that
it's use is attended with great dan
ger, and the dose which Hayward
gave Blixt should have killed him
when the reaction came. That it did
not seems perhaps a miracle, but it
is probably more likely that 1t was
fortuitous circumstance inspiring
Hayward to put either too much or
too little in the whisky. Blixt says
that after he had drank this whisky
everything appeared to his distorted
vision abnormally large. Street cars
looked like professions of two-story
houses, the horse a giant, and even
his poor victim creature terrible in
proportion. These experts will tes-
tify that this is the effect of nitro
glycerine, as are also the eruptions
on the skin and the stomach disor-
der which he experienced two weeks
after the murder.
eve will produce the druggist who
sold this drug not to Hayward, but
to person to whom it cam readily
be traced to Hayward Whether or
not this person knew the purpose
for which it was to be devoted is
not for me to say, but I am of the
opinion that by the time we get
through the public will be convinced
that not all the scoundrels implicit
ed have been sentenced to be hung,
and they will not be clamoring for
the life of my client ether
Who the druggist is the attorney
would not say, save that he was a
resident Of another city, and suspi-
cion points toward the Windy city,
nor would he say who the man to
whom the drug was delivered, al
though if the drug was bought in
Chicago the public can readily guess
the purchaser.
The nitro-glycerine theory shows,
If true, a knowledge on Hayward s
part of drugs and the effects they
produce far beyond that of most
persons who are not actually en-
gagged in the business. 1t also lends
color to Hayward's assertion that he
had thought of studying medicine.
The opportunities which would have
opened to him as a regular practi-
toner would have shown a way
to murders more atrocious than the
cruel taking off of Catherine Cling.