The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-10
HARRY T. HAYWARD.
THE MURDERER OF MISS GING
SAID TO BE INSANE.
Sees Constantly Before Him the Phan
tom Faces of Those Closely Con-
nected With the Trial.


| MINNEAPOLIS (Minn), Dec. o.
Harry 7. Hayward, the murderer OF
Katherine Cling, is bordering on the
verge of insanity. Sleeping or waking
he sees before him the phantom faces
of those closely connected with the. trial
wherein he found his doom. Muttering
in the dead of night, waving his hands
before his face in the day time, he seems
always to see something of which the
physician who stood by knew nothing,
saw nothing.
What is it, Harry?" had often been
asked, and his only reply was: Don't
see them? They are here and there,
pointing in the dark corners OF his cell
and crouching back as If at last ne
feared something "They talk to me,
he continued. This is all he would
say to DR.. Burton, who attended him
throughout the long watches of the
night and administered opiates to quiet
the famous prisoner, whose fitful starts
and lunges gave him worriment.
To the reporter, however, he ex-
claimed: Say, do you know last night
1 saw the devil. He stood at the foot
of my bed and spoke to me. Another
stood at the other corner and saw
also two corpses. I wreStled with the
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no good. told them l was not afraid,
and the guard will tell you the same.
Then l saw the face of Kitty Cling. She
spoke to me, but l did not answer
Blixt came, too, and asked me TO for
give him, but 1 would not. Oh! If my
] brother Adry had only come, L could
have strangled him and been contented
to hang" with a laugh that sounded
harsh in the echoing cell rooms.
| A deputy was sent to his cell and he
arrived in time to hear Harry cry:
Good, I've won thousand. Let her
go. Deuce, then an ace; ha! ha! L
win again" Then an oath fell from
his lips, and his talk became rambling
and unintelhgible. A lucid moment
dawned, and he was asked how he felt.
Great" he exclaimed Il never spent
a happier day in my life and the
laugh. too horrible to find response from
his hearers, rang out. The OLD lie
was lived over again in his sleep, and
with a quick start Harry would eX-
claim words of triumph as II engaged
once more in faro gme.
If HAYWARD has not a hope OF COM
mutement of sentence through the
play of insanity, he has lost his reason,
indeed, for but last evening he endeav-
ored to open an avenue of escape by
the offer of large sum of money Inc
plot was as foolish as one could posi-
bly, be- Calling to his cell Adry, the
brother who gave deadly testimony
against him, he asked forgiveness Tor
all the harsh things he had said against
him. then asked his aid in escape. You
know that l cannot do it, answered
Adry, and Harry broke forth in in
vectiyes. shrieking: 81 will meet you
at the gates of hell with red-hot
poker" To the guard he offered
81 900 to aid him, but he might as
well have asked it of an infant A
million could not have lent MIN ald.
Although an iron door separated him
from the hanging court, Harry heard
the sounds of the hammers as they
nailed together the parts of the scaHoid
that was to relieve him. They're OIL!
he exclaimed with a horrid laugh GO
it, you fellows; make it strong, for
don't want any slip" Then turning
to the guard who stood by, he de-
handed: Say, after the drop and they
cut me down. if 1 get UP and walk, do
YOU suppose that that will let me go!'
The guard assured the prisoner that
he was a free man should he perform
this feat. That's all right" laughed
Hayward, 81 will kick the top from my
coffin at the Morgue, anyway
The guard Immediately turned away
Hayward declares that he Will prove 10
the world that he is a man OF nerve.
when the final moment arrives will
walk to the gallows with firm step,
said he to a United Press reporter
this afternoon 1.-THE papers for months
past have wondered if l was possessed
Of nerve, or was man without a
soul When I am done the press will
say whether or not | had the nerve.
All through the day the noise arising
from the erection of the gallows smote
the ears of the condemned man, but
under it all he grew calmer, excepting
the repeated statement that he would
return in spirit and haunt his brother
Adry and BliXt. He was rational IN
the evening. He declares that he Will
make a statement on the galloWS We'd
nesday morning, and the most expert
of the reporters of Hennepin County
have been engaged to take his words
It is believed, however that Harry will
not make a confession, but will simply
make a rehash of his former state
ments regarding his escape plot and
his avowed innocence in connection
with the death of Kittie Cling.
Everything is tonight completed for
the execution. The gallows have been
erected in the court where the Barrett
boys were hanged, and where narrow
cells have held condemned prisoners
heretofore Sheriff Holmberg himself
will pull the lever that will spring
the trap. The structure is not the
Shaky affair used In former executions
Instead huge and solid timbers have
been used and the spectators will not
hear the horrible booming in the echoing
room Of loosely constructed planking
at the fall.
Hayward has softened under his long
imprisonment and the physicians who
made the last examination of his body
state that there is danger at the fall
that his head may be jerked from the
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condemned man. The hanging will
occur about 80 Wednesday morning
This is the first execution occurring
in the State upon day other than
Friday, Governor CloUgh leading in
the precedent in the belief that the
superstition that Friday is a day of
iil-luck should be done away with in
public affairs at least
To the last Hayward refuses to en-
brace religion.