The herald., 1895-12-20
HARRY HAYWARD CONFESSED
He Committed no Less Than
Five Murders
CARRIE HASS OF PASADENA
Is Asserted to Have Been His First
Victim
Strange Statement, Somewhat Indicative of
Insanity and Showing Utter Absence
of Human Feeling

Associated Press specia Wire
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Dec. 19.-The
ante.mortem statement of Harry +. Hay
ward, the full text of which makes $4,000
words, and which the Times will print to-
morrow morning in full, is in many re-
spects a most remarkable document. 1t
was made under the most formal condi-
tions and with solemn assertions on the
murderer's part that he was telling the
truth.
The full text to be published tomorrow
gives for the first time the name of one of
the victims and other important details
which have heretofore been omitted in the
abstracts that have been printed. Not
only does he claim to have murdered dur
Jag his brief career no less than five differ
ent people, but in describing the various
tragedies in which he has figured he shows
an utter absence of human feeling and a
pleasure in his achievements that marks
him as an unusual type of criminal. The
language used in describing his criminal
adventures is in the careless, flippant style
that characterized his testimony on the
stand
His first murder was that of Carrie Hass,
near Pasadena, Cal, and he describes the
affair thus:
~ met this girl at dance and, to cut it
shot her and buried her. That is all OF
that. l look at it this way: 1t was not
much of an amount, it was 500 and some
odd that she had. | got the money. She
would naturally holler, and l looked at it
The would be better off if dead. There
would not be anybody to holter around, as
she did not have any relations. She was
young. pretty, and little bit on the sport
ing order. The money was left her by her
fat tller. 1t has always been in my head to
kill a person and not look at their face
after they are dead, because there's that
mind business. that leaves an impression
on your mind. That is what makes muir
derers confess. The conscience bothers
them"
He then goes on to describe how he got
her money on some preteXt, inveiglcd her
out to drive in the mountains. and how he
shot her. II was a tizzle, he said, because
he did not figure out rs carefully as he
once, but Topped around. He buried her
the best he coufd> but worried about it
afterwards and hired man two weeks
after to 20 ont and put her in box and
throw it into the port OF Los Angeles. This
mans name, on the principle of honor
among thieves, he would not tell. Nothing
has ever come of the matter.
Money, he 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 $4,000
year. He had planned to kill her, but did
not because there was no way he could get
the money But he longed to do the deed.
''Sne used to make me 30 damned mad,'
said Hayward, "that I wanted to choke
her. can understand how Durraut killed
those girls in San Francisco with pleas
ure."
Once when tending bar in Long Branch
he had XII led constImptive man who was
there and who had money The consump-
tive had money and wanted to die. The
name he refused 10 tell on tue ground that
he had an accomplice who might get INTO
trouble; but this murder was by shooting,
too, and the body had been thrown into
the water.
Then here was Chinaman killed in a
gambling quarrel and the brother of
Mexican girl at Paso del Norts and lastly
Miss Cling. One of Harry's auditors asked
him il he ever saw spooks. He replied that
he often saw faces, but not of real people.
Catherine Cling had never bothered him
after death, but the. girl whose BROTHER he
had killed appeared 20 him before the Cling
killing and said: Harry, lool out! look
out!N
The object of the Cling murder was
money and hatred. He hated the girl be-
cause she was so stingy-he had obtained
S3SOO OF her money-and mean and SuS-
pcious she had 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 it until the time
was ripe. The stories of BlXt and Adry
on the stand were practically correct and
Harry exonerated Adry from all criminal
connection with any of IBIS schemes.
Blixt, he said, was surely hypnotized and
was not responsible. He felt sure that the
man should have been given but two or
three years in prison instead of life sem
tence.
In closing his statement Hayward said:
IL have told the truth, SO help me God-if
there is God. If there is He certainly
won't blame me. as l have honestly fol-
lowed the dictates of my conscience.
Don't say am sorry, for Tam not. Ihave
made my bed and will lie in 1t without
kicking. I have had my fun and will pay
for it,
He admitted knowing lot about green
goods and han used counterfeits a great
deal, but would not tell what he knew, as it
would endanger others.
KNOW NOTHING OF IL.
Inquiry was made last night among the
the various officers both in the sheriff's
officers and the police department regard
ing the alleged murder of Carrie Hass, but
no one remembers any such crime in the
history of Pasadena.