The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
THE GING MURDER.
is CORRUPTION TO SAVE THE
MURDERERS?
Homicide Fine Art of the Higher
Civilization.

VIC duNcTJcu, SOLlc ClulC cluOO, w |
the possibility that the murderers of
Catharine Cling might escape punish
ment, and the poor girl moulder In
her bloody grave unavenged; and we
said that if Hayward and BliXt es-
capped, by corruption or trickery, the
people of Minneapolis, ought to rise up
and hang them both and their attor-
neys with them. Mr.. Erwin referred
to this declaration in the trial of the
case: but we adhere to it. Corruption
is sweeping away all the rights of
property; and when it invades the do
main of life the people have a right to
fall back upon their original re-
sources. When civilization becomes a
rotten failure, barbarism has right
to reassert itself The right of a
criminal to a full and fair defence
does not include the right of counsel
to thwart justice by fraud. This is
defending crime by crime. 1t is cut
ting away the foundations Of society.
Harry Hayward's father has been
selling off large quantities of property
and turning it into cash. What for?
Several of the daily papers have been
recently printing articles calculated
to raise doubt as to the guilt of the
accused;-some even joke over the
matter, and call the murdered girl
"Kitty," as if she was cat! And the
Minneapolis Tribune of February 5th,
says:
us THERE AN INFLUENCE?
The continued efforts of the Even
ing Journal and it's morning edition,
(The Minneapolis Times,) more es
pecially the former, to belittle the
case of the state. and at the same
time bolster up the defense, has led
to the making of some ugly sugges-
tions about the court house and on
the streets. There is more than one
man who assumes to believe that
some hidden influence has been at
work to bring about such result
Said one Of the best known attorneys
of the Hennepin county bar last
night, in discussing the matter: IL
had talk with man today whose
name / will not give you, but he is
worth half a million of dollars, and
he expressed to me the opinion that
the papers had been influenced in be-
half of Hayward" For himself the
attorney said he could not see how a
paper which pretended to be a news
paper could publish comments on a
trial which were SO plainly written in
support of one side"
If we did not know the awful rot
tenness of the depraved age in which
we live, we should shrink from pub
fishing such utterances. But the
power of money is great enough to
make murder pleasant and safe past
time for the sons of the rich, provided
their parents can pay the price OF
it. Mr.. Erwin, we hear, has received
$4,000 for his part Of the performance
and the newspapers are to so befoe
and befuddle the public mind that
after the farce is over Hayward anG
Blixt can renew business at the ole
stand, without danger of being shot
down by some indignant, uncivilized
unreconstructed citizen, whose heart
has not yet been eaten out Of him by
the arts of Plutocracy.
We believe, with some knowledge o
history, that the annals of the worl(
will be searched in vain for parable
for the monStrous times in which W,
live. 1t was bad enough when mel
used to burn each other alive at tn,
stake. for opinions sake; but at leas
they were honest about it; and wer,
trying to conserve what they thought
enormously, the best interests of tn,
individual and Of society. 1t was bat
enough when tyrants ruled and sen
men to the block or scaffOld at thei
own sweet will; but even then, as il
the case of Sir Thomas Overbury
princes and princeSses were punished
as ruthlessly as serfs. But here W
have a condition where corruption
has honey-combed society until it
so rotten that it will hardly hang tt
gether. And if now money is to bu
immunity for murder, and the new:
papers are to help in the work, the
indeed civil order draws nigh fats
collapse and final catas trophe.
Why was it Adry Hayward, a wit
ness against his brother, asked to b
kept in Jail in st. Paul, instead o
roaming around this beautiful city O
churches and public schools? VIII
did the Sheriff prevent him from eat
ing the dinner his mother brough
him? These are questions that Ope
down into dreadful viStas.
Watch and wait and observe.