The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
THE GING MURDER.
y The Trial Of Harry Hayward is On
III at Minneapolis.
The State Establishes the Murder and In
PRODUCES Blixt, the Acconplice, Who
Tells His Part in the
Bloody Deed.

Produces Blixt, the Accomplice, Who
Tells His Part in the
Bloody Deed.
The evidence in the Hayward trial
reached the summit of gastliness the
4th. Human skulls, cross sectioned,
and intact, were very much in evidence
throughout the day. They were used
as illustrations in the course of cram
ial anatomy IN which the jurors were
instructed. BY means Of them the
twelve men were shown the general
bone structure of the human head, the
course taken by the bullet that killed
Catherine Cling and the nature and ex-
tent of the fractures on the sides Of the
murdered woman's head. With them,
too. the effects of blows and fractures
in general were explained at length.
The learned counsel for the defense
did not content himself with direct
fractures, but went deeply into the
posi- bilities of contre coups and the
effects upon the skull and the brain of
blows given directly and obliquely.
The object of it all was this: The
state seeks to prove that the death. of
Catherine Cling was caused by the
bullet fired from the revolver held by
Claus Blixt. The state obtaining that
abatement from the witnesses without
difficulty, is not prone to push the anat-
omical Investigation very far until the
follow suit. The defense probes deep
~ into the matters anatomical because
1t is seeking to show that the two
fractures on the front of the skull of
the murdered woman were made by a
a heavy instrument, the ''T'' rail, be-
fore the shot that penetrated her brain
was fred. The defense admits that the
shot through the brain was necessarily
fatal, but if it can be shown that death
or insensibility was caused by the
blows which produced the fractures,
Blixt's confession and testimony maxi
ing no allusion to the use of an weapon
but the revolver. will be discredited in
che minds of the jury. Thus will be
opened way for the all important
reasonable doubt, To defeat the
efforts of the defense in this direction
the state endeavpred to show by the
witnesses that the body falling from
the buggy might have resulted in the
FRACTURES and injuries to the face.
The witnesses were the exdepnty
coroner, DR., Louis A. Nippert; DR..
William Russell, who inspected the
body where it was found; DR.. R. j.
Hill, who assisted DIR. Nippert in the
autopsy, and Harry Gilbert, an en-
ploye of Gooseman's livery stable.
The most dramatic scene that has
ever occurred in a court room IN Henne-
pin county was enacted the 5th when
Claus A Blixt, the self-confessed slayer
stand, by the state to the surprise Of
everybo
Few eyes glanced toward Harry Hay
ward as the name was pronounced, but
those which did failed to see any start
or blanching Of the cheek. Instead
there was a slight sheer as the hand
some young man looked at his accuser
and then he settled himself in his seat
to hear his sensational recital.
Blixt told his story in a clear voice,
palmer than the majority of the witt
was cool and collected, although at
times his fingers worked nervously as
his hands were clasped in his lap. He
told how Harry had outlined his vari-
Gus plans, how he had cut the L rail
for him Tan old rusty motor line rail,
much smaller than railroad rally by
heating it in the furnace and then cut
ting it with an axe; how Harry had piled
him with liquor on the Hateful night,
and then of that trip on the lonely road.
He kept to his original tale, but gave a
new reason for mis- doing the deed.
Harry. he said, had threatened him,
but he refused to do the work, theu
finally Harry had threatened TO kill bis
(Blixt's) wife if he did not comply with
his request. Then at last he consented,
afraid that Hayward would carry out
threat, Harry had told him that he had
already killed two men and didn't care
whom he killed to further his plans.
At this point Blixt, whose voice had
been growing shaky while speaking of
his wife, broke down and sobbed like a
child.
The recital of the killing was dram
attic. Blixt, as he told the story, illus
trated it by giving motions with his
bony and hands, and after he had closed
with the fall of the body, and the pass
ing of the wheel over it, there was
silence for a moment, and then a great
sigh went up from the audience. At
last it had been moved to actual feel
ing. Blixt said he could have shot her
10 times before he did. She kept lean
ing out of the buggy looking for her
lover, who had promised to follow
them. Once he thought he would stop
the rig, leave 1t and her, and fly the
country to escape Harry, but then he
thought of his wife, who would be left
behind, and he feared for her, and car
ried out the work. AS she leaned for
ward, he shot her. The body stiffened
back, and raised up slightly, its head
going against the back curtain. The
speaker illustrated it by stiffening his
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