The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-13
THE GING MURDER,
Hayward Found Guilty-A Just
Verdict.

1t is with pleasure we chronicle the
conviction OF Harry Hayward for the
murder of Katharine Cling. We are
not of malignant spirit, but this
crime was the most hideous ever re-
corded in the annals of our race.
The man is demon. We shall be
glad to hear of his executions; and are
only sorry that the same rope will not
strangle every wretch in the world
similarly base and cruel
He made love to the unsuspecting
girl, and led her to believe that he
would marry her. while he was plotting
to murder her; then he tempted her to
gamble and tried to bride fortune
teller to encourage her by prophecies
of great success; then he obtained all
her money and even her diamond
rings; then he induced her to put
$4,000 of insurance on her life, and
assign the policies to him; and then
he corrupted the engineer of his faith
er's great building, and compromised
vassal; and finally he fired him with
whiskey and sent him forth to the
work of brutal slaughter. And when
the poor girl, who loved him and trust
ed him, lay bloody in death, he had
not one twinge of conscience, or one
pang of regret, but remarked, the next
morning, to his brother Adry, that sit
was just like picking up money,"-rc-
ferring to the $4,000 insurance.
What dreadful view to his dam
nable heart does that expression fur
nish.
Then when brought to trial he seeks
to save himself by throwing his broth
er into the abyss. His father raises
$75, 900 cash, and witness after witness
comes up to commit perjury to save
him. And for large sum of money
he hires the most subtle, the most
cunning, the most forceful, and the
most eloquent criminal lawyer in the
United States, to drag him away from
the dark platform of the gallows; and
this great lawyer talks for II hours,
with sophistries enough to bewilder
the angels of heaven; but the jury on
the first ballot, by unanimous vote,
find Harry Hayward guilty of murder
in the first degree.
We rejoice in this verdict. We are
sorry to see human being sent to
such doom, and yet we can not but
feel that the verdict of the jury is
triumph of civilization for good govern.
ment. 1t is an honor also to the Deo-
pie of Minneapolis, that, although.
they almost unanimously believed
Hayward guilty, and were wrought up
to terrible fury against him. yet for
seven weeks, at great expense to the
taxpayers, they permitted him to
bring forward every perjured witness
he could scrape up out of the purlieus
of the city, and present every argu-
ment which the subtlety of his coun-
sci could devise
we rejoice tnat such an utterly evil
nature is to be removed from among
the children of men. He is an intelli-
gent scOundrel and moral idiot. Men
call his self-control nerve: but he is at
heart coward. No one but coward
could plot the murder of "A dcfenceless
woman.
The bravest are the tendercst
Nhe loving are the daring"
He plotted the assassination but he
had Tot the courage to deal the blow
himself. "IIe fath would wound but
feared to strike" He was conbta fly
seeking for agents for his hellish wo.k.
And yet we canpot but think that
this dreadful monster lis, sad 80 SAY.
in some sense, a type OF our e. He
repro sents the absolute indifference 10
the rights of others, tire. wblf-like vn.
racitv, the insatiable> heflish greed,
which mark the Monevpbwer and
whica has plunged mankipd into SUCH
| unutterable miseries. He was like in
kind and differed only in degree, from
the usurers Of our frontier, who are