The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-12-25
LEE OF A MONSTER.
Harry Hayward Confesses to -Four MUIR
ders BESIDES Miss Gings.

Harry hayward COn1eSSeS W EOoA
ders besides Miss Ging's.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Dec. 20.-Harry
Iayward's ante-mortem statement, die
tated to a stenographer the night be-
fore his execution, contains his con-
fession of the Cling murder, and also the
startling information that he COM
mitted three murders before that
crime.
Hayward stated in his confession that
he never got into trouble until he be-
gan to gamble. This led him to form
the acquaintance of counterfeiters with
whom he associated for some time, nGr
he never spent much of the green goods;
it was too risky.
After describing his early life and
how he became interested in gambling
and travelled all over the country, he
describes now he killed Chinanan in
New York with whom he was playing
and whom he caught cheating. He
knocked the man down and struck MIN
in the eye with a chair leg. This crushed
his skull and the fellow died. Hayward
buried him in the shed and fled. This
was in July or August, 1898, and a.
though the papers reported the finding
CT the body nothing came of it.
He then described falling in with
woman in Pasadena, CAL, who had $500.
This he succeeded in getting hold of
for investment. Then he went out
riding with her, shot her and buried
her. She was never missed, not be-
ing well known, and he had never heard
of the matter again.
1T Ell Paso Del Norte he was caught
with young Mexican girl by her broth
er, and was forced to shoot him to save
his own life. The wound was not Sc
rious and the matter was fixed up,
but after Harry got away the brother
| died of blood poisoning.
Once when tending bar in Long
Branch he had killed a consnmrtive
man who came 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, too, and the body had been
thrown into the water.
The alleged confession takes up the
Cling murder at some length. Harry
claimed to have won Miss Ging's conf
dence by studying her character and
playing her right"
He secured from her $4,000 in all.
She was a good business woman, but
not well educated, anil he won her con-
fidence partly by playing the noble
act'' and partly by mystery. Harry
| ho hoI IN
innate with her and that he had never
attempted to be, believing that the
best means Of retaining her confidence.
When he had determined upon kill
ing her he told story about having
$4,000 worth of diamonds in pawn in
| New York. She was to take out the
| $4,000 insurance in his favor, give him
notes to make an insurable interest and
receive the diamonds and $1,000 in
money. This money he pretended to
pay her, but $4,000 was counterfeit,
and after it had been put in an envelope
he changed the envelopes and gave her
one containing only paper.
He claimed to have hypnotized BiNt
and to have got the janitor completely
in his power The first ride with Miss
Cling was just to get things ready. He
had told her q green-goods-gangs story,
with good deal of mystery about it,
" ich she believed.
The second time he had taken the ''T'
rail with him, intending to kill her and
then have it appear as if there had been
an accident and she had fallen against
a curbstone. But he found no good
place, and so the third time he had
DliXt come He told her BliNt was one
of the gang. BliNt carried out the in
| structions to the letter, and the story
he told on the stand was in the main
true, though little mixed on time.
Harry had his alibi very carefully
| figured out. When brought to the
morgue to see her dead body he played
his part very carefully. and was proud
| of the way he had done it.