The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-20
|HAYWARDTS CONFESSION
Tho Story He Told the Night Be-
fore His Execution.
MISS aIna WAS HIS FIFTH VICTIM.
rhe Murderer Told without Emotion Now
He Had Caused tn. Death of Two Women
and Thrcs Men. One OF the Latter n
rhinaman.

He Had Caused the Death OF Two Women
and Tircs Men. ono OF the Latter n
chinaman.
MiHSEAPoLIs, Dec a0.-The ante.mor-
tenn statomcnt OF Harry T.. Hayward, the
full text OF which makes 80, 600 words, is
An many respects most remarkable docu-
ment. 1t was made under tho most formal
conditions and with solemn assertions on
the murdercr's part chat he was telling the
truth. Not only does Hayward claim to
have murdered during his Brief career no
less than lye different persons, but In de-
Ecribing the various tragedies in which he
figured he shows an utter absence Of
human feeling and a pleasure In his
achievements that mark him as an un-
usual type OF criminal The language used
In describing his criminal adventures Is in
the Same careless, fippnnt style that char
acterized his testimony on tho stand
His first murder was that of Carrie Hass,
near Pasadena, Cal, and he describes tho
affair thus: II met this girl at q dance,
and, to out 1t short, killed her She had
money, and shot her and buried her
That is all Of that. i look at 1t in this way
lit was not much Of an amounts was
800 and some odd that she had. got the
money. She would naturally holler, and
looked Mt it that she would be better Of
u dead. There would not be anybody to
hoiler around. and she did not have any
relations. She was young, pretty and o
little bit on the sporting order. The money
was left her by her father. 1t has always
been In my hcad to kill person and not
look at their face after they are dead, be-
canse there's that mind business. That
leaves an Impression on your mind. That
Is what makes murderers confess. The
conscience bothers them.''
He then goes on to describe how he got
her money on some pretcxt, inveigled her
out to drive in the mountains and how he
shot her. She did not die at once, but
nopped around. He buried her as best he
could, but worried about 1t afterwards
and hired man two weeks after to go
out and put her in a box and throw 1t into
the port at Los Angeles He knew this
mans name, but on the principle Of honor
among thieves would not tell It, Nothing
hnd ever come of the matter.
Money, be said, was his first object in
life, girls the second and travel the third
There was a girl in Minneapolis with
whom he was going, and who had g. 600 a
year. He planned to kill her, but did not
because there was no way he could get her
money. But he ionged to do the deed
'She, iised to make me SO id mad" said
Hayward, "that wanted to choke her. 1
0ah understand how Durrant killed those
Y two girls in San Francisco with pleasure" !"
Once when tending bar in Long Branch
he had killed consumptivo man who
caine there, and who had money. The
consumptive had money and wanted to
die. The name Harry refused to tell, on
the ground that he had an accomplice who
might get into trouble now. But this
murder was by shooting, and the body
was thrown into the river.
Then he killed n Chinaman in San Fran
cisco in tho latter part of 1893. Regarding
this murder he says: II was playing with
a Chinaman for small stakes and the Ce-
lestial was cheating me. jumped up and
told him that had found him out and he
came at me with a knife. pulled.the
heavy chair from underline, but could not
get swing to strike him, so poked the
leg at him and struck him in the face. He
foil, and then I punched the leg into his
eye and IL crashed into tho skull, and he
lay still. After that dug hole in the
place under the floor In the she'd broke up
the chair and buried it with the body there.
never heard any trouble from it, although
the papers made a report of the finding of
the body.
! "The last trouble before this was at Ell
Paso Del Norte. was mixed up with n
girl there and we used to paint things
once in while. One night her brother
caught us together and had us dead to
rights. He was crazy, and came at me
with n knife tried to beat him off with
chair, and the girl cried to mo to shoot
him or he would kill me and she would be
found out. / fired at him and struck him
fn the shoulder, and he dropped the knife
and the girl picked 1t up. He was quiet
sah nftar thnf Il Il
drug store and had his wound dressed.
He made up a story of how 1t happened to
ward off suspicion. ! promised to marry
the girl, and all was we'll for the time. /
left there and learned afterwards that he
died from blood poisoning from tho
wound"
One Of Harry's auditors asked him II he
ever saw spooks. He replied that he often
saw faces, but not OF real people. Gather
tne Cling had never bothered him after
death, but the girl whose brother he had
killed once appeared to him before the
Cling killing and said: Harry, look out;
look out"
The object of the Cling murder was
money and hatred. He hated the girl be-
cause she was 50 stingy-he had obtained
$500 of her money-and mean and sus-
picious. She had a way of putting her
hands on him and pinching him that
made him So mad he wanted to choke her
and could scarcely keep from 1t until the
time was ripe.
The stories of Bllxt and Adry on the
stand were practically correct, and Harry
exonerated Adry from all criminal CON
neotion with any of his schemes Blixt, he
said was surely hypnotized, and was not
responsible. He felt sure that the man
should not have been. given but two or
three years In prison instead of a life SEN
tence. In closing his statement Hay ward
said:
II have told the truth, SO help me God
II there is a God. If there Is, He certainly
won't blame me, as have honestly fol-
lowed the dictates Of my conscience. Don't
say that anu sorry, for l am not have
mado my bed and will lie In 1t without
kicking. l have had my fun and will pay
for It,
He admitted knowing lot about green
goods, and had used counterfelts good
deal, but would not tell what he knew, as
st would endanger others.
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4 Keeper Brown Must siand Trial.
PoueHKEEPstE, N Y.,. Dec. 20--John
Brown, the keeper of the Mattenwan asy-
lnm for insane criminals, who Is under ar