St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-09


they were locked up in the central
pohce station. Next day Blixt was
paced under the inquisition but still
all three held out. Not a single admis
sion or guilt was secured from any of
thein until Friday night, Dec. 7, when
the authorities played their last card
Auiy was confronted with the man who
hau revealed his secret to the author
ities' Elder Stewart, and for the first
time the story of the plot was told On
that foundation BliXt too was locked
up ana ms wife also was detained. as
Wen as one William Erickson, who had
peen about with Blixt for few DAVIS
previous.
On Sunday Blixt broke down and told
what is supposed to be the true story
VI the crime He took the mayor and
chlel Oh ponce in hack to the place
Where the body was found; told how
marry hayward told him to meet him
there; ne met him about 10 minutes
AFTER T. and there was a shot. When
marry drove up the woman was dead i'm
the buggy. Then Harry went back to
me car line, hurried to the theater
WINE ne drove the corpse for about a
iiiile Iurther on and then dropped Ii on
the road, returning to the CITY him
sell on Lyndale avenue car. But the
.iiiie he gave was so plainly wrong, and
the possibility of Hayward having come
oh from the scene of the alleged crime
so preposterous that it was shown tn
be false
blixts attention was called to the
discrepancies, and again he broke
uoWh, telling a different story. in
winch ne himself was the actual muir
uer. Harry did not go to the lake AFT
ali, put put Blfxt in the buggy with
the girl at the corner of KenWood
boulevard and Lyndale avenue ac-
cordlng to this second story. But
Harry Hayward steadily refused TO
ADMIT his guilt, and with a brayado
uneXampled in modern history fought
all efforts TO draw from him the much
desired confession.
Meanwhile the police were working
upon the confederation of the stories
or BliXt and Adry. Erickson, who had
gone to Iowa with a bundle of clothes
at date suspiciously near that of the
murder, was thoroughly investigated
and the fact established that he had
lett before the murder. After few
days he was released, there being no
evidence TO connect him with the
crime. fE
Public excitement meanwhile was
at fever heat, and on the night that
the confession of Adry was made
known to the press, Adry and Harry
were spirited away to the Ramsey
county Jail for fear of lynching. Mob
law was talked on every hand, and
tentative meetings were even held pre-
paratory to a full-fiedged lynching
party, such as is the custom in com
munities where the enforcement of
the laws is frequently defeated by
faithless or inefficient prosecutors
But no violence was attempted, and
when, in the December term the
grand jury indicted both Harry 'Hay-
ward and Claus BliXt for murder in
the first degree, the public conscience
was, in some respect at least, APP
peased and shortly after New Years
the HayWards were brought back to
this city. Adry was released, but at
his own request a deputy sheriff ac-
companied him constantly, and does
to this day.
Hayward and Blixt were arraigned
and their trials set for Jan. q. Hay
wards father engaged for his defense
w. w. Erwin. the famous criminal adj
vocate. whose fame through the cases
of Arensdorf, the Homestead rioters
and Eugene V. Debs has become ma
tional. w. E. Hale retired from the
case in favor of John Day Smith, and
A. +. Sweetser also became associated
of counsel. The interests of the state
were looked after by County Attorney
Frank Nye himself bV no means a |
novice in the trial of murder, either as |
prosecutor or as advocate and his |
special assistant, A. II. Hail.
At the appointed time the case came |
to trial before Judge Seagrave Smith, |
the senior judge of the court for the |
Fourth district, accounted by the legal |
profession perhaps the ablest exponent |
of the law upon the bench of the state !
A week and a half was spent In the
drawing of jury. 200 veniremen being
examined before twelve satisfactory
jurors could be found Finally, on
Wednesday, Jan. 30. the case was
opened by Special Assistant County
Attorney Hall. Since then over 100
witnesses have been examined and
nearly a quarter of a million words
of testimony have been adduced on |
one side of the case or the other. The !
direct case of the state occupied two
weeks in it's elucidation, and then two
weeks more was consumed by the de-
Tense, and the last half of the sixth
week of what has been, in many re-
spects. the greatest trial in the history
of the Northwestern courts, was taken
rD with brief rebuttal and sur-rebuttal
testimony.