The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-06
STARTLING STATEMENTS

Made by Harry Hayward in tho Cling MUIR
der Case-He Lays the Crime on HIS
Brother Adry.
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 26.-Although the
time set for opening the Hayward trial
was $3.50, the court did not appear until
10 o'clock and the crowd which had
waited joined in round of applause as
Judge Smith took the bench. Harry
Hayward went on the witness stand.
"Mr Hayward" said Attorney Err
win, ''if possible 1 want you to take
your story just where you left off. You
stated that you got back to the Ozark
about II o'clock the night of December
3, after taking Miss Bartleson home
from the theater."
81 want to correct one statement"
said the witness. II was not at Chicago
May 0, as reported in papers. Well,
that night returned to the Ozark and
went into the basement and went into
Blixt's ROOM
81 don't know whether Miss Blixt
told me or not, but l got the impress
sion that an accident had happened
That horse had come back without
its driver. went upon the elevator to
the fifth floor. Here saw some police
men and young Mr.. Goosman. asked
what the trouble was and Goosman
told me an accident had occurred. |
understood it was lady and my curl
osity was aroused. Finally he said that
Miss Cling had gone out driving and had
not returned with the carriage. All the
things that had passed between Miss
Cling and came back to me. Two or
three times before that she had asked
me for my revolver and at once came
to the conclusion that it was not an ac'
cident, that she had been killed. Then
Mr.. Goosman and l went down to the
police station, where | talked with
Jailor McKenna.
"They took you to the morgue and
showed you the body, did they not?'
"Yes, but in sensational manner.
| There was cover over the corpse and
was brought up and shown it. felt
pretty bad. l was right there and all
these people thought l was guilty.
Then they took me to the police sta
tion. did all l could during that
! trouble. l went to Miss Ireland and
asked her if | could do anything.
went to the florists and got some flow
ers for the funeral"
after your arrest where were you
/ taken?" 'To the lookup. The next
morning was arraigned in the police
court and from there taken to the
county Jail. My brother Adry was
taken there at the same time.
81 said to him: What's the matter
with you? We are not guilty He said
Il wish could feel as well about this
as you do. said: 'Adry, you held this
woman up once; did You do this?'" As
the witness exclaimed this in sharp
tone, deep murmur arose in the court
room and then slowly died away.
"Ile would not answer" continued
the witness, land after that he re-
mained silent and would not talk at
all"
I NIL VIII hohCNl ia w dlb lC
garding the hidden box, the statement
that he had killed two men, the whisky
business, threats to kill BliXt and wife,
and, in fact, questioned him about
every statement made by Blixt, to all
of which Hayward replied, mo, sir;
that's not so, or 81 never said any such
thing"
He denied offering Adry $40 to &C
kill stranger A reference to the
burning of the barn caused the defend
ant to say: 81 know where that came
from" looking straight at Adry.
The trouble between him and Adry
was that the latter was jealous. The
main factor was the hold-up last April
Harry found his brother had his watch
and accused him of committing the
robbery. Adry confessed and admitted
he had no conscience. Mr.. Erwin
wished to show lack of conscience in
Adry, through the witness but Judge
Smith ruled it out
Late in the afternoon Harry Hay
ward was turned over to County Attor
ney Nye for cross-eXamination. Moth
ing of Importance was elected, al
though he was questioned regarding
his gambling and the loans made tc
Miss Cling. Mr. Erwin at last managed
to get in the evidence in connection
with the alleged hold-up on the road
near the lakes, where Harry states
Adry held him up while he was driving
with Miss Cling and Miss Vedder.