The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-11
HAYWARD HANGED.
MURDER OF CATHERINE GING IS
AVENGED.
His "Last SUPPER" as He Profanely
Termed It, Was Served About 10
O'CIocl>-Changed His Address to
"The Morgue" at 2.9J This Morn
ing.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec. 1O.-Be-
fore dawn tomorrow morning Harry
Hayward will be hanged at the Jail
in this city for the murder of Gather
inc Cling.
Before dark tonight morbid crowds
had assembled in the vicinity of the
Jail. There was nothing to see except
the gray walls and the occasional open
ing of the heavy doors to admit some
official, yet they fingered in the vicin-
ity waiting for the tragic event. At
midnight the throng numbered several
hundred.
Hayward's swell dinner. 1.-The last
supper" as he profanely expressed it,
was served according to his desire
shortly after 10 o'clock, and he partook
of it with apparent relish.
Rev. Father Timothy arrived short
ly after-not upon the summons of the
condemned man, but in case that at
the last moment desire should be, ex-
pressed by the hitherto unrepentant
man for a spiritual adviser.
During the evening Hayward held a
lengthy conversation with his attend
ants and laughed and joked on his
approaching execution. AS Captain
Sandberg was covering the windows of
the Jail, looking into the alley, Harry
noticed him, and shouted:
'"That's right; block out the gaping
crowd. People wishing to see me will
have to call at the morgue, as in
tend to change my quarters" and he
laughed as he said it.
To a newspaper man he said:
Il would like to see the account of
how this thing came out, and about
my actions on the scaffold,'' and again
he laughed as if he were going to a
picnic instead of to death.
AT 200 A. NJ.
Hayward was hanged at 2:05 a. m.
Hayward spent a considerable por-
ton of the evening telling stories and
listening to stories by others. 1t be-
ing his last night, he was allowed quite
a privilege, and was continually sur
rounded by friends. He was gay and
jovial all the time and gave every indi-
cation that he would go to the gallows
as he would to dinner. He spoke about
his wife occasionally, for he insisted
she was his wife He said he gave her
$50 today to make her feel good. He
passed cigars around freely and talked
about his great meal. The toast he
proposed at his dinner was, Here's to
the girl who loves me, and the girls
whom / love-"
He gave it in the French He adj
mitted tonight he could never hang I'M
less there was a crowd present. He
wanted to see the people and suggested
that it would have been better to have
the scaffold tKtside and have seats ar
ranged so that everybody could see It.
As sample of his conversation, the
following can be quoted:
Sheriff Holburg came into the cage
and Harry said: How are you, Sheriff?
am as fine as silk. You and I are
the chief actors tonight, aren't we,
sheriff." He seemed never to think of
any hereafter.
About 1870 stenographer was adj
mitted to Harry's cell, and he finished
the statement which he has been
spending considerable time on lately.
There was a large crowd around the
Jail and the city was full of deputy
sheriffs and chiefs of police from all
over the state. all anxious to see the
execution
The murderer went to the gallows
with a laugh ON his lips and went down
the trap just as he uttered the words
lightly: Let her go, Megarden"