The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-06
KATIE GING'S MURDERER
BliXL COlisSSaS 10 The Court He Fired
the Fatal Shot.
HAYWARD MADE HIM DO 1T
The Foul Fiend Made His Plans
With Great Care and Com
pelIed His Tool TO Exc
cute Them.

Harry HayW ard Tor the murder OF Iatna-
rine Cling, the state to-day sprung a sur
prise by placing Claus \. Blixt. the self
confessed tool of Hayward, on the stand.
lie seemed calm enough. Hayward looked
mildly astonished, but betrayed no un-
easiness.
In answer to questions from Nye. Biixt
related how. six or seven weeks before the
murder, Harry Hayward was accustomed
to come down into the engine room and
have long talks with him. BliXt pointed
out the rooms on n diagram OF the fats
where they were accustomed to talk.
Blixt described how he witnessed n note
for 5000. given by Miss Cling to Hayward.
lie said he had been instructed by Harry
to say, when he saw the pile of bills:
"What n lot of money!
The note was offered in evidence and
found to bo dated Nov. 1, nine days be-
fore the murder. That night. in the base
ment of the OZARK Harry said TO him:
II am going to kill her. didn't let her
have s. 900; It was only $1,000. | am going
to take her to n restaurant and have her
show her money, and tell her how care
less she has BEEN
Afterwards" continued Blixt, "he told
me that he took her around to n restaur-
ant and had her show the money, and she
placed 1t in a tumbler while she ate, and
some one else told her that she woud be
killed for her money"
During his examination Blixt was
asked: "Did he say anything morc?'
"Yes, he said he was going to drive out
| and find place where there we're some
rocks and throw her on the rocks and
then they would think it was a runaway.
One day Harry came into the boiler room
with piece of T rail four feet long and
wanted me to cut il in two. Harry took
| the shortest piece, put IL under his coat
and went up stairs. Afterwards | showed
| the officers where the other piece was"
| This piece of rail was offered in evidence
| and identified.
Blixt continued: "He wanted me to go
out somewhere and get a hitched horse.
| He said he would drive out somewhere
with Miss Cling, would drop some money
out of the buggy and get her to go after
| it. Then he would strike her with the IT
| rail and leave her thero and start the
horse to running away. He wanted mo
to make the list of all tho things he had
in his pocket when he went SO that he
should not lose anything while away that
would turn up against him as evidence.
This was the Saturday night before. The
next morning he came down and asked
mo if ] ever heard of people retting killed
| in elevators. lie said he would get in the
| elevator with her and strike her on the
| head and then put her on the floor so that
when tho elevator started il would cut of
her head.
Il said would not do that" went on
Blixt. Hayward said that every time
that Miss Cling came into his room and
put her arms around his neck he wanted
to stick knife into her. L said to him,
| Harry. can't you make money some other
81.
heard He said, You are n coward That
evening he came down with her TO the
boiler room and showed her the things.
The next morning, Monday, about IL
o'clock, he handed me his watch, n box of
cartridges and roll of money, and he got
| me to hide them in tin box so they
| would not be found. put il in an attic
and when told him whore ! had placed
It he called me n fool. lie said to put il
in hollow tree in the woods. He said the
money was not all good, but that some of
1t was green goods. He sa id there was CO.
ing to be a funeral there before the 10th,
no matter how it happened.
ale said 'Of course she'll be brought
here and I'll be sorry, and I'll have TO sit
up all night with the corpse, and after the
coroner has had his examination, then
I'll go East with the body He said no
had to have 81, 900 to carry out his plans
IN the East. lie would get $1,000 out of
this and would have to make 5000 IN
some other way. Late that evening he
came in with pint OF whiskey. He said:
| 'Biixt, here's some whiskey.' / said did
not want any. You're a fool he said;
this amt common Whiskcy' Then took
It aud drank half of i-.
Then he said: she's got 10 die to-
night and you've got 20 help me- l said.
Harry, amt YOU got any other way 10
make money than TO XII. thar poor little
girl lie said, It's nothing TO kill peop.e
I've killed two other people, he said
one was Chinamau, bus he did no; say
who tue other vas. lie said he had
wounded a third. l said / could not help
him do ii. lie said I'd got to or he would
kill me-"
Il did not pay any attention 10 that and
then he said he would Kill my wife.
told him Whatever he d.i, not 10 hurt my
wife. He could DO wha. he liked 10 me,
but not TO touch my Wife,
FINALLY I said | would do as he liked,
but he must not hur. my wife. he told
me TO 20 out HenUepin avenue 10 KEN
wood and wait Tor him. Whom he came 1
was TO follow him. Pretty soon / saw him
coming and followed him. Then lie
stopped a buggy and / came mp and he
told me to ge, into It am drive along.
cot IN and he said 10 keep our heads in
side. Then he said 10 Mss Cling: This
man is N the gang Taen we drove out
Heunepin avenue and did not see him
again until afterwards.
After a while she asked me what had
down there by my side aul 1 said IL was a
revolver. She kept looking out all tho
time and kept thinking. IL was fight
IN my head all the time. Finally / fired
aud hlt he- where De said / should. Then
she threw her head back. 1 went on about
30 yards further and then I thought l
, would have 10 ger ont Then she went
out aud struck her head on the wheel and
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