The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-20
HAYWARD A TRIPLE MURDERER
AFTER THE FIRST KILLING HE
LIKED THE EXCITEMENT.

HIS First Victim n Chinaman He Was
Gambling With I'm san Francisco.
An Adventures He Fell in with at
Pasadena Shot Dead While He
Was Out Riding with Her-He Also
Shot Girls brother and Wound
Up With the Cling Murder.
Minneapolis. Mimi, Dec 19.-Harry
Haywards ante-mortem statement, die
tated to a stenographer the night before
his execution. contains his confession OF
the cling murder and also the startling
information that he committed three mur-
ders 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 coun-
terfeiters, with whom he associated for
some time, but no never spent much of
the green goods; it was too risky.
One time, when he was out riding in st.
Louis, the horse became risky and he
shot him dead He settled for the AMI
NAL with the owner.
The confession then readsi "The firsu
murder l committed was in San Fran
cisco, in. the latter part of 1885, / wa,
playing with Chlnaman for small staxes
ana the Celestial was cheating me.
jumped up and told him that / had found
HiAA tuNs anu ne came at me WITH u
knife pulled the heavy chair from un-
der me, but 1 could not get q good swing
TO strike him, 80 poked the leg at him,
ana struck him In the face.
He fell and then 1 punched the leg in
10 MS eye and IL crashed right into the
skull, and he lay still. After that l dug
the shed, broke up the chair and burned
II with the body there l never heard
AMY S,,d trouble , from on T. although the papers
o,to4dtt after beginning ! rather liked the ex-
went from there TO Pasadena. had form-
ed the acquaintance ef a likely glri. "a
regular adventures. / was a little press
ed Tor money, and the girl had saved $500.
cash except by pretending / had an in
NVslmeht Tor her that was q money
maker. She turned over the money and
TOOK her out riding, shot her and buried
the body. She was not very well known
auu was never missed. l never heard OF
that matter from that day TO this.
The last trouble before this, was at
Faso del Norte, 1 was mixed up with a
slrl there and used to paint things once
IN m a while. one nieht her brother caught
Us together in my room, and had US
dead to rights. He was crazy and came
az me with a knife. 1 tried 10 beat him
on with a chair, and the girl cried to me
she would be found out. fired at him and
struck him In the shoulder, he dropped
the knife, and the girl jumped out OF the
bed and picked him up. He was quiet
enough after that and / took him to a
drug store and had his wound dressed.
TO ward off suspicion, and / promised to
marry the girl, and all was well for the
time. l left there and learned afterward
that he died from blood poisoning from
the wound.
~ was introduced to Kate cling in
January, 1895. That was at time when
l had been suffering pretty heavy losses
~ was about April before Was real well
to atequaiphted .sa. tied with her and then ! set out
from her. That was right about nv
playing the bank with her for a partner.
and that Chicago business. / aid not lose
never took any notes nor gave any up
90 the time when we fixed up the last
scheme. 1 hypnotized her and played her
iight. She was a good business woman,
Dut she was not highly educated, and
yet wanted to pretend that she Under
work on her only through mystery. Nor
ally, with Kate Cling, there was absolute
ly nothing wrong. l say honestly, that
while / talked pretty plain to her. /
played the noble racket with her and
said that, even though / was a wild devil,
world. was playing her for other pur-
poses, you see"
The confession then relates that Hay
ward had the mill at Hamil burned, and
that he collected the Insurance. re pro-
posed TO Adry to help him murder Miss
tad Glpg, but qiropped. ipp him because he was
Then follows the details Of placing
$4,000 insurance on Miss Ging's life, how
taurants, visiting fortune teliers, paying
over 5000 TO her, of which 500 was
counterfeit, and turning over the poli-
cies, etc.
Hayward then related how he hypno-
tized Rlixt and interested him In the niot
70 murder Miss Cling but ne claimed That
Blixt was eager TO commit the crime.
Hayward took Miss Cling out riding on
two occasions showing her on the firef
drive house where he told her counter
felt money could be secured. These drives
were taken on the Saturday and Sunday
nights preceding the murder Miss CSinar
taking the buckskin mare and neetina
hayward at the West hotel. He intended
TO smash her head with T rail each
Tune. but found no suitable place in which
70 commit the murder. The last time he
saw her was at IL O'Clock on the morning
OF the murder.
The rest of the confession gives an ac-
count OF the killing, and colncides with
tne evidence which came out at the triad
hayward meeting Miss Csingi near fhe
west MOTEL and driving with her to the
point where he met Blixt, when the lattes
drove her 10 Lake Calhoun and Shot her
hayward told in the confession how he
liked his alibi and how he took Miss
Bartleson TO the theater The Bartleson
clock was wrong. and this accounts For
the discrepancy in time. which bothered
the lawyers in the case.