The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-10-26
Sympathy for Hayward.

What is the spirit that prompts men
and women TO sympathize and talk az
if they thought that the detective who
discovered Harry Hayward's plan for
escape had done something criminal in
reporting him, and having him sur
prised as he was, on the verge of free
dom?
Many newspapers in Minnesota have
announced that they believed it a
money making scheme. coniured up by
the detective, etc, but why did this
good little boy, Harry, allow himself to
be led thus? Il he SO innocent that he
could not see through Il money making
scheme of that kind? No not he. A
man who has been found guilty of the
fiendish murder that he has, and for
the sake of money, would not be blind
to proposition that was to enrich some
one else. Now following the attempted
escape comes the startling announce
ment that he has a most diaboliCal
scheme on foot for disposng of his
brother Adry. Every detail had been
planned and arranged for, in the fol-
lowing manner:
Adry was to be kidnapped and taken
to a house near Hopkins, out on the
prairie, some distance from any other
building. There he was to be kept I'M
til he wrote certain confessions, the
form of which Harry had already draft
ed and presented to the cOnspirators,
for use when the time came. These
statements were to the effect that he
(Adry), out Of remorse, was about to
Kill himself that it was he, not Harry,
that had caused Miss Ging's death; that
rather than live to see his brother in
nocently hanged he had taken his own
| life, i'll the hope that it might lead to
| saving his innocent brother; and more
along this line.
| The difficulty Of getting Adry Hay
| yard to write and sign such a statement
was all provided for in advance Adry
was not to know that lie was to be
murdered. He was to be told that the
! only way to save Harry's neck was to
cast suspicion upon the case, which
| would secure a new trial under the
statement of newly found evidence,
and they hoped TO build up such a de-
| fence that Harry would get off Adrv
was to be told that all they would want
from him would be this statement, and
that he leave the country. If possible,
| he was to be sent to South Africa. ii
| that kind of a proposition would satisfy
| him. In fact, they were prepared o
| promise Adry anything so long as they
succeeded in getting him to sign it.
| Here comes the diabolism of the plot
Not satisfied with driving Adrv to the
| necessity of writing a confession of a
crime which he did not commit, the
! plot was to strangle him as soon as the
document was signed. Then the dead
body of his brother was to be brought
from the lone house on the prairie and
and hung by rope on a tree near the
spot where the Cling murder was com
mltted. This is the reason for the de-
tail of strangulatiOn. In fact, so far had
details of this horrible crime been de-
veloped that it was Harry instructions
to have BOARD or something leaning
against the tree to show how Adry had
ctimed up. Then the body of Adry
was to be found by some useful person
and the notes found in the pocket
which were TO open the door OF the
prison to the instigator Of the murder
of Catherine Cling. 1T will be neces-
sary to get some man to help YOU" was
Harry's advice to the detective with the
scared conscience. Help was needed
to superintend the kidnapping as well
as the strangulation of his brother
Get some old stiff that nobody cares
for, and when the deed il done kill him
| too. Dead men tell no tales"
We do not favor capital punishment,
but a man who can conceive such
schemes for the disposal of his own
brother, ought to be given few hours
each day In solitude, the remainder uI
his life, to consider plans of some other
kind, just by way Of variety, you know
\ es, If this is the sentiment of the people
we will say it. at is to bad he did not
escape. 1t is too bad, also he did not
get out and Kill his brother, and every
body else whom he happened to think
was in his way, or had not stood by him
in his trial"