The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-11

Father Timothy arrived shortly after-not
upon the summons of the condemned
man, but in case that at the last moment
a desire should be expressed by the hith-
erto unrepentant man for a spiritual adj
wiser During the evening Hayward held
a lengthy conversation with his attend
ants. and laughed and joked on his APP
preaching execution. As Capt Sandberg
was covering the windows OF the jail look
ing into the alley, Harry noticed him, and
shouted: That's right; block out the
gaping crowd. People wishing to see me
will have 10 call at the morgue, as l in
tend to change my quarters" and he
laughed as he said il. To a newspaper
man he said: II would like TO see the ac-
count of how this thing came out and
about my actions on the scaffold," and
again he laughed as IL he were going to a
picnic instead of 10 death.
Hayward spent considerable portion of
the evening telling stories and listening to
stories by others 1t being his last night,
he was allowed Quite a privilege. and was
continually surrounded by friends. lie
was gay and jovial all the time. and gave
evidence that he would go TO the gallows
as he would to dinner. He spoke about his
wife" occasionally, young woman OF
Minneapolis, who denied that she was his
wife. He said he gave her $50 today to
make her feel good. He passed cigars
around freely, and talked about his great
meal. The toast he proposed at his dinner
was: Here's TO the girl who loves me,
and the girls whom 1 love" He gave it
Ia French. He admitted that he could
never hang unless there was a crowd pres
ent. He wanted TO see the people, and
suggested that IL would have been better
10 have the scaffold outside and have seats
arranged SO that every one could see 1t.
As a sample of his conversation the fol-
lowing can be quoted Sheriff Holberg
came into fhe cage. and Harry said:
How are you, sheriff? / am as fine as
silk. You and l are the chief actors to-
night, aren't we, sheriff." He seemed
never TO think of any hereafter. About
IL 30 q stenographer was admitted TO
Harry's cell. and he finished the statement
he had been spending considerable time on
lately. There was large crowd around
the jail. and the city was full OF deputy
sherffs and chiefs OF police from all over
the state, all anxious to see the execution.
The murderer went to the gallows with
laugh on his lips and went down with the
trap just as he uttered the words, lightly:
LET her go, Megarden." The command
was directed 10 the chief deputy. Prior
to the execution the condemned man
maintained the nerve which has made
him famous. lie took his last supper
shortly after l o'clock, and was surround
ed by the deputies and the death watches.
Just as the death warrant was read Hay
ward turned 10 his brother, DR.. Thaddeus
Hayward. and said: You know | am a
great believer in spiritualism. II / get
safely on the other side ] will send a mes
sage to you" At o'clock Hayward list
ened 20 the reading of the warrant. Soon
after Sheriff HolbeTg entered and the con-
demned man said earnestly: II want TO
ask you. as a last favor. please let me pull
the trap. II VIII save you lifelong anxiety
and viii give me eternal satisfaction"
-fHs tad
~. ] know my duty
on the scaffold Harry made an extended
statement. He said that to please the sew
eral pastors who had called upon him he
would say, God forgive me for all have
done" This is looked upon as a confess
sion.
The trap fell at 2.10 and the wonderful
vitality OF the man was shown by the fact
that he lived FOR several moments after
the trap fell. His neck was broken.
Harry Hayward was hanged for the
murder of Catherine Cling. handsome
young dTessmaker. December 3 1897 on
the road between s.. Paul and NfinneaD-
oils. Her bruised body was found by the
roadside and the murierers intention vas
20 make L appear she had been thrown
from a buggy while driving. The girl had
beer intimate with Hayward who had
borrowed and sQuandered her savings. and
IN whose favor she had taken out life in
sur7nce The actual killing was done by
Claus RliXt, a dul-w. TIED ian,tor. who was
completely in Upwards power The lat
ter induced Miss G:1g 20 20 driving with
BhXt. and while Blixt was killing her
with = piece Of ron. Harry HAYWARD at
tended the theater with respectable
young woman q Minneapolis in order 10
establish an al!bi The first iut.matien
the polio" bad ~ the facts Of the murder
was obtained from A3ry Hayward. Harry's
brother. who had refused 20 40 into the
plot when 81 was unfolded - him The
Upwards are a very reputable family in
Minneapolis.