St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-26
NYE TAKES HOLD
The States Attorney Begins
Cross Examination Of the
Prisoner.
HAYWARD ON THE RACK.
Prosecution Evinees a Dispo-
sition to Apply the Screws
Mereilessly.
THAT TALK WITH ADRY.
Erwin Succeeds in Securing
It's Introduction as Evil
dence.
He DENIED BLIXT'S STORY
And Recounted the Story OF
the Robbery at Lake
Calhoun.
He DENIED BLIXT'S STORY

Like Dubious in Cowper's poem,
Harry Hayward
knows what he knows as if he knew
it not,
What he remembers seems to. have
forgot"
The defendant in the celebrated
murder trial did not improve mate
rally as a witness yesterday, al
though he had several days in which
to receive and digest pointers. Be
fore interrogating his client yester-
day morning, Attorney Erwin told
him in open court to confinc himself
to statements Of fact and leave off
explaining. This, however, did not
deter the witness from eXclaiming,
well, I'll tell you," his customary
exordium before answering nearly
every question. During the after
noon session Judge Smith lost pa
tience with him, and interrupted
him in one of his explanatory dis
QUESTIONS with:
Now, look here. I want you to
answer the questions pat to you
without explanation. Confine your
self to facts.
But this did not suffice to cure
Hayward of his rambling way Of
testifying, and he kept on until the
end
At 3 80 o'clock he was turned over
to County Attorney Nye for cross
examination. Previously he had de-
MED everything that could possibly
connect him with the murder of his
sweetheart, and had got along fairly
well, with the assistance of his pa
tient attorney.
Mr.. Nye did not evince any dispo-
sition to spare the prisoner. He
brought out some unpleasant truths
before he had been questioning him
two minutes. In particular, the wit
ness was forced to admit that he
was and always had been a gambler.
He had no trade, and had spent his
time in travelling about the country,
frequenting gambling resorts. Ques-
tions tending to discredit many of
Hayward's statements and to throw
doubt upon his motives were asked.
For instance, he was asked if he
thought it good business sense to
give a woman thousands of dollars,
all he had in the world, in fact,
when he knew that woman was
possessed with All insane desire to
gamble. This and similar questions
made the witness very uncomfort-
able, and he acted as though he
would give a good deal to have his
examination we'll over with. In fact,
his anxiety to have done with it
showed itself in the careleSSneSS of
his answers At one time, when he
had been telling for several minutes
about his movements on the night OF
Dec. 8, and had been describing with
great minuteness just where he went
and what he did, he stopped sud
denly at some unimportant ques
ton of the county attorneys and
did not answer. After a peculiarly
long pause, he said, as if the matter
had just been brought to his mind,
LET me see, you are talking now of
the night of Dec. 8; yes,' when there
had been no mention of any other
night for several minutes.
MIR. Nye launched boldly into
Hayward's gambling habit, and in
sinuated that at the gambling table
he had lost gradually a large estate
that was given him by his father
several years ago. The witness de-
of November the practical remand
er of that estate had been entrusted
to Miss Katharine Cling, q woman
whom he trusted implicitly. He ad-
mitted that today he was penniless,
and that his father was bearing the
expense of his defense. He had
never learned any trade or profess
sion, and had never had any ex-
tended employment. He had worked
two or three times in Jeffrey's car
pet store.
Then the loans were gone into,
Mr. Nye insinuating that the pay
ments he had made to Miss Cling
were really payments of her win
nings through his playing at cards
with her money. The notes had
been made subsequently, and the
county attorney intimated broadly
that they all made on Nov. a.
The state a1so indicated that one
Of the points of its rebuttal would be
the testimony of a cigar dealer at
ball park who saw Harry and Miss
Cling meet in that vicinity during tho
latter half Of the month of Novem-
ber. Harry said he had never met
her in that neighborhood at any
time
The whisky purchase was then
gone into, Harry stating that his
companion upon that occasion was
Eugene Woodward, of Anoka.
Mr.. Nye dwelt upon Hayward's
declared intention to get the girl
drunk ''by fair means or FOUL" and
asked him if he did not put some
thing in the whisky. Harry said he
did not.
He was also asked if he did not
tell the mayor that at the time he
left Waterman and the young lady